Quotes on “reading”

…only then did I wake out of the book.

Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.

He liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his head.

If your library is not "unsafe," it probably isn't doing its job.

When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls. What is to happen next will take place within the four walls of the story. And this is possible because the story's voice makes everything its own.

I read my eyes out and can't read half enough...the more one reads the more one sees we have to read.

Just because it's fiction doesn't mean it's any less true.

If you love books enough, books will love you back.

Books and doors are the same thing. You open them, and you go through into another world.

In the library I felt better, words you could trust and look at till you understood them, they couldn't change half way through a sentence like people, so it was easier to spot a lie.

I had found my religion: nothing seemed more important to me than a book. I saw the library as a temple.

Take no heed of her.... She reads a lot of books.

Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.

I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.

A fondness for reading, properly directed, must be an education in itself.

If a book is well written, I always find it too short.

As long as you have any floor space at all, you have room for books! Just make two stacks of books the same height, place them three or four feet apart, lay a board across them, and repeat. Viola! Bookshelves!

Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.