Quotes and Sayings about Reading

If you only ever read one book in your life I highly recommend... keeping your f*cking mouth shut.

I feel so extraordinarily happy and free when I read that I'm convinced it could make everything else in my life bearable.

Reading should not be presented to children as a chore, a duty. It should be offered as a gift.

Reading can be as magical as any spell.

I have consistently loved books that I've read when I've been sick in bed.

Reading is a hobby, but for some of us, it's an escape from the difficulties we face. To all of you who escape into books, I want to thank you for escaping into this one.

My father always said, "Never trust anyone whose TV is bigger than their book shelf" - so I make sure I read.

I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book.

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

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

Reading is an active, imaginative act; it takes work.

What I like in a good author is not what he says but what he whispers.

Read. Read. Read. Just don't read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that you develop different styles.

If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.

Oh, I just want what we all want: a comfortable couch, a nice beverage, a weekend of no distractions and a book that will stop time, lift me out of my quotidian existence and alter my thinking forever.

The great threat to the young and pure in heart is not what they read but what they don't read.

The more you read, the better you’re going to become as a storyteller.

But books – they’re different. When you watch a film, you’re sort of an outsider looking in. With a book – you’re right there. You are inside. You are the main character.

The pleasure of reading a story and wondering what will come next for the hero is a pleasure that has lasted for centuries and, I think, will always be with us.

The beauty of reading is that it lets you travel in a way you could never know.

The best advice I ever got was that knowledge is power and to keep reading.

Facism is cured by reading, and racism is cured by traveling.

I grew up in a household where reading was encouraged. My mother believed in the power of words, and my father obviously did too.

Reading is the infinite adventure of childhood.

Reading was my escape and my comfort, my consolation, my stimulant of choice: reading for the pure pleasure of it, for the beautiful stillness that surrounds you when you hear an author's words reverberating in your head.

The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives. She went on olden-day sailing ships with Joseph Conrad. She went to Africa with Ernest Hemingway and to India with Rudyard Kipling. She travelled all over the world while sitting in her little room in an English village.

So Matilda’s strong young mind continued to grow, nurtured by the voices of all those authors who had sent their books out into the world like ships on the sea. These books gave Matilda a hopeful and comforting message: You are not alone.

All the reading she had done had given her a view of life they had never seen.

When all else fails, give up and go to the library.

I read the f*ck out of every book I can get my hands on.

There are a lot of good books around. 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?

To Mom,
Who took me to the library.

"A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies," said Jojen. "The man who never reads lives only once."

If my books can help children become readers, then I feel I have accomplished something important.

The only way you can truly get to know an author is through the trail of ink he leaves behind him. The person you think you see is only an empty character: truth is always hidden in fiction.

Few things leave a deeper mark on the reader, than the first book that finds its way to his heart.

If you have never spent whole afternoons with burning ears and rumpled hair, forgetting the world around you over a book, forgetting cold and hunger-

If you have never read secretly under the bedclothes with a flashlight, because your father or mother or some other well-meaning person has switched off the lamp on the plausible ground that it was time to sleep because you had to get up so early-

If you have never wept bitter tears because a wonderful story has come to an end and you must take your leave of the characters with whom you have shared so many adventures, whom you have loved and admired, for whom you have hoped and feared, and without whose company life seems empty and meaningless-

If such things have not been part of your own experience, you probably won't understand what Bastian did next.

Gaston: "How can you read this, there's no pictures?"
Belle: "Well, some people use their imagination."

Book hangover: Inability to start a new book, because you're still living in the last book's world.

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

I read a book one day and my whole life was changed.

Everyone is a reader. Some just haven't found their favourite book yet.

All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.

The more that you read,
The more things you will know.
The more that you learn,
The more places you'll go.

Easy reading is damn hard writing.

Once, in my father's bookshop, I heard a regular customer say that few things leave a deeper mark on a reader than the first book that finds its way into his heart. Those first images, the echo of words we think we have left behind, accompany us throughout our lives and sculpt a palace in our memory to which, sooner or later - no matter how many books we read, how many worlds we discover, or how much we learn or forget - we will return.

A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read.

A bookstore is one of the only pieces of physical evidence we have that people are still thinking.

Every book, every volume you see here, has a soul. The soul of the person who wrote it and of those who read it and lived and dreamed with it. Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its spirit grows and strengthens.

A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone.

In all of the world's books in all libraries in the universe, I couldn't find the words to describe what I feel about you.

Rainbow drops - suck them and you can spit in six different colours.

Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?

Do you know the best thing about broken hearts? They can only really break once the rest is just scratches.