Quotes on “reading”

Ahhh. Bed, book, kitten, sandwich. All one needed in life, really.

If you don’t like to read, you haven’t found the right book.

What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Books can be dangerous. The best ones should be labeled ‘This could change your life’.

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

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

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.

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

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