Quotes on “reading”

My arms are killing me. I didn't know words could be so heavy.

As always, one of her books was next to her.

Classic? - a book which people praise and don't read.

When I am king they shall not have bread and shelter only, but also teachings out of books, for a full belly is little worth where the mind is starved.

If you surround yourself with the good and righteous, they can only raise you up. If you surround yourself with the others, they will drag you down into the doldrums of mediocrity, and they will keep you there, but only as long as you permit it.

I've developed a great reputation for wisdom by ordering more books than I ever had time to read, and reading more books, by far, than I learned anything useful from, except, of course, that some very tedious gentlemen have written books.

The true birthplace is that wherein for the first time one looks intelligently upon oneself; my first homelands have been books, and to a lesser degree schools.

A word after a word after a word is power.

There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we believe we left without having lived them, those we spent with a favorite book.

Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.

The ability to read awoke inside of me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.

I only read biographies, metaphysics and psychology. I can dream up my own fiction.

Some books are so familiar that reading them is like being home again.

Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you.

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

Books can truly change our lives: the lives of those who read them, the lives of those who write them. Readers and writers alike discover things they never knew about the world and about themselves.

Read a thousand books, and your words will flow like a river.

A well-read woman is a dangerous creature.