Quotes on “reading”

Let's be reasonable and add an eighth day to the week that is devoted exclusively to reading.

Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.

People don't read any more. It's a sad state of affairs. Reading's the only thing that allows you to use your imagination. When you watch films it's someone else's vision, isn't it?"[Interview in The Independent, 15 October 2005]

There's a difference between preferring books to parties and preferring sixteen cats to seeing the light of day.

Books were a safe place, a world apart from my own. No matter what had happened that day, that year, there was always a story in which someone overcame their darkest hour. I wasn't alone.

Maybe Heaven will be a library. Then I will be able to finish my to-read list.

I love books, by the way, way more than movies. Movies tell you what to think. A good book lets you choose a few thoughts for yourself.

The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.

Sit in a room and read--and read and read. And read the right books by the right people. Your mind is brought onto that level, and you have a nice, mild, slow-burning rapture all the time.

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

Reading is probably another way of being in a place.

Entrei numa livraria. Pus-me a contar os livros que há para ler e os anos que terei de vida. Não chegam! Não duro nem para metade da livraria! Deve haver certamente outras maneiras de uma pessoa se salvar, senão… estou perdido.

Personally, I am a hedonistic reader; I have never read a book merely because it was ancient. I read books for the aesthetic emotions they offer me, and I ignore the commentaries and criticism.

Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.

It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else.

You have to remember that it is impossible to commit a crime while reading a book.

What art offers is space – a certain breathing room for the spirit.

I guess there are never enough books.