Quotes and sayings about tag  reading

215 Quotes

The odd thing about people who had many books was how they always wanted more.

Patricia A. McKillip

We need the books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us.

Franz Kafka

Ah, how good it is to be among people who are reading.

Rainer Maria Rilke

They had only ever discussed books but what, in this life, is more personal than books?

Gabrielle Zevin

There is creative reading as well as creative writing.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There's nothing wrong with reading a book you love over and over. When you do, the words get inside you, become a part of you, in a way that words in a book you've read only once can't.

Gail Carson Levine

I owe everything I am and everything I will ever be to books.

Gary Paulsen

Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste.

Voltaire

To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry.

Gaston Bachelard

To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.

W. Somerset Maugham

I know every book of mine by its smell, and I have but to put my nose between the pages to be reminded of all sorts of things.

George Gissing

We love to buy books because we believe we're buying the time to read them.[Inside Out (VH1)]

Warren Zevon

Education...has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.

George Macaulay Trevelyan

One of the great things about books is sometimes there are some fantastic pictures.

George W. Bush

Reading is reading - no matter what the material.

Giovanna Fletcher

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