Quotes and sayings about tag  reading

215 Quotes

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.

Groucho Marx

The one way of tolerating existence is to lose oneself in literature as in a perpetual orgy.

Gustave Flaubert

Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.

Gustave Flaubert

I couldn't live a week without a private library - indeed, I'd part with all my furniture and squat and sleep on the floor before I'd let go of the 1500 or so books I possess.

H.P. Lovecraft

Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.

Harold Bloom

With my eyes closed, I would touch a familiar book and draw its fragrance deep inside me. This was enough to make me happy.

Haruki Murakami

Maybe reading was just a way to make her feel less alone, to keep her company. When you read something you are stopped, the moment is stayed, you can sometimes be there more fully than you can in your real life.

Helen Humphreys

Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.

Helen Keller

How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.

Henry David Thoreau

Her reputation for reading a great deal hung about her like the cloudy envelope of a goddess in an epic.

Henry James

I believe that today more than ever a book should be sought after even if it has only one great page in it. We must search for fragments, splinters, toenails, anything that has ore in it, anything that is capable of resuscitating the body and the soul.

Henry Miller

Some of these things are true and some of them lies. But they are all good stories.

Hilary Mantel

Never put off till tomorrow the book you can read today.

Holbrook Jackson

Reading is going toward something that is about to be, and no one yet knows what it will be.

Italo Calvino

A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.

Italo Calvino

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