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Book Reading Quotes & Sayings

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The guru, if he is gifted, reads the story as any bilingual person might. He does not translate-he understands. — Bill Vaughan

The child who gets lost in a book can emerge from the experience a changeling. — Maureen Corrigan

No more can the reader hope to learn virtue merely by reading this book - unless, of course, it is so boring as to demand perseverance! — Dalai Lama XIV

If you are reading this, you will get what you want. Believe in yourself and that's inspiration. — Chandan Sharma

I spent my life in the library reading books. — Michael Caine

Don't you think it's better to continue reading than to just close the book? — Rebecca McNutt

Reading a book, sharing a story, is the most intimate of experiences. It's the closest that I ever come to a Vulcan mind meld. — Cathy Maxwell

I simply don't shine in company. Mostly I prefer to retreat with a book. — Barbara Hambly

I would never read a book if it were possible for me to talk half an hour with the man who wrote it. — Woodrow Wilson

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If you're reading this sentence then you've pretty much got it. Good job. Just keep going the way you are. — Demetri Martin

I was well traveled, and I created this illusion of literacy through reading and writing. I wrote a book of short stories. — Tom T. Hall

If the book we're reading doesn't wake us up with a blow on the head, what are we reading it for. — Franz Kafka

Books for all the world are always foul-smelling books: the smell of small people clings to them. — Friedrich Nietzsche

He nods, his eyes on her like he's reading a book he's just getting to the end of and can't be interrupted. — Alden Bell

Today I fell asleep reading a book. The book is called INSOMNIA. I win. — Adam Young

Let's read as if books were to disappear tomorrow! — Gabrielle Dubois

I grow fond of David, who lays a single stone before Goliath and a single book, the Psalms, in the mouth of the world. — Erri De Luca

Spending one hour with Isaias is far more worthwhile, rewarding and enlightening than reading ten books — Meles Zenawi

Not a single person has died of boredom reading this book. — Nicole Fende

I've read many more books than you. It doesn't matter how many you've read. I've read more. Believe me. — Nicola Yoon

If time heals all wounds, and a book can hold a person's entire life, then you can speed up the process with a pulp time warp. — Deb Caletti

Never underestimate the power of giving a book! — Carmela Dutra

It is not the reading of many books which is necessary to make a man wise or good; but well reading of a few. — Richard Baxter

There must be a secret hidden in this book or else you wouldn't bother to read it — Kathy Acker

After reading a book, you become someone else: Now you are not you, but you plus the book! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Hey, pretty book, why don't you lie in my lap awhile? — Richelle E. Goodrich

When you find that one book, that one that makes you tingle. It's almost like you found a little piece of magic. — Carmela Dutra

I keep to old books, for they teach me something; from the new I learn very little — Voltaire

You should never try and teach a pig to read for two reasons. First, it's impossible; and secondly, it annoys the hell out of the pig!. — Will Rogers

Consider reading an inspirational book or listen to a podcast every day. You will maintain a library of positive thoughts in your head. — Timi Nadela

A book is indeed dead until a reader brings it into life by reading it. — Aman Jassal

A book was mere paper splattered with ink until a reader's mind gave it life. — Elizabeth Langston

Someone mentioned therapy to me once. I read a book instead. ~ Drew Stirling — Jayden Hunter

All the world knows me in my book, and my book in me. — Michel De Montaigne

The greatest pleasure in life is that of reading while we are young. I have had as much of this pleasure perhaps as any one. — William Hazlitt

I'd like to thank readers. Every time you open a book, it is a strike against ignorance. Unless you're reading Sarah Palin. — Libba Bray

Who needs sleep when you have a good book? — Elizabeth Ann Patterson

Books shouldn't be daunting, they should be funny, exciting and wonderful. — Roald Dahl

Every time there's a revolution, it comes from somebody reading a book about revolution. David Walker wrote a book and Nat Turner did his thing. — Mike Tyson

There is something divine, something artistic, and something supreme in reading a book in a peaceful garden. — Mehmet Murat Ildan

We spend great sum of money to buy good books, so that we can satisfy our pleasure of reading. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The only thing worse than not reading a book in the last ninety days is not reading a book in the last ninety days and thinking that it doesn't matter — Jim Rohn

This must be a gift book. That is to say a book, which you wouldn't take on any other terms. — Dorothy Parker

A good book is hard to read, on account of how often it makes you stop and think. — Chris Brady

reading a book is taking a journey"
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Reading is a joy for my kids, and to swing in a hammock on a lazy summer day reading a good book just goes with summer. — Marcia Gay Harden

For me, a holiday is about taking a book and going to a mountain and reading. — Sonam Kapoor

All these sorts of book feature in The Year of Reading Dangerously, which could yet be called Fifty Shades of Great. — Andy Miller

He loved books, those undemanding but faithful friends. — Victor Hugo

Never read a book through merely because you have begun it. — John Witherspoon

On getting lost in a book.
Set adrift
A life unknown
Connections form
Love is sewn — Patty Wiseman

I always thought the joy of reading a book is not knowing what happens next. (Leonard Shelby, Memento) — Christopher Nolan

When the smoothness of the pages of a newly purchased book comes to your hands, it is evident that the book is well-read. — Mosiur Rehman

Often, when I am able to check out a book, I read it a dozen times before returning it, desperate to remain lost in the magic of someone else's story. — Amy Engel

beauty tip for the world, go read a book — Antonia Perdu

You're either reading a book or you're not. — Jonathan Franzen

In the pages of a book, we are in paradise. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I focus on the words in front of me and continue reading the book that has now turned me into a voyeur through no fault of its own. — Ella Frank

To read means to borrow; to create out of one s readings is paying off one's debts. — Georg C. Lichtenberg

A strong man does not succumb to pressures, he knows that without pressures he will not find pleasures and so he will not be made. — Jaachynma N.E. Agu

The journey is the mystery ... the destination the answer. If you don't have a happy ending yet, you have not finished reading the right book. — Shannon L. Alder

A novel must be exceptionally good to live as long as the average cat. — Lord Chesterfield

Reading Proust isn't just reading a book, it's an experience and you can't reject an experience. — William Gaddis

Every book is a world. — Gabrielle Zevin

The only thing better than a well-read book is a well-read book only read by yourself. — S.A. Tawks

My deep religiosity [ ... ] found an abrupt ending at the age of twelve, through the reading of popular scientific books. — Albert Einstein

There is no better adviser than a good book. — Debasish Mridha

He objected, though, to indiscriminate reading. 'One must have some question,' he wrote, 'addressed to the book one is going to read. — Pyotr Kropotkin

If you were at school they would not let you read a book like this, they would keep you from reading it by involving you in sport. — Helen DeWitt

I'm not only a songwriter but I'm a massive music fan and I love going to shows. It's different than reading a book. — Craig Finn

Only God knows the good that can come about by reading one good Catholic book. — John Bosco

If you carry a paperback book in your back pocket, but spend more time on your hair than you do reading it, you're probably a bad actor. — Dov Davidoff

There are favorable hours for reading a book, as for writing it. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

..holding a book but reading the empty spaces. — Ray Bradbury

I shall keep my book on the table here, and read a little every morning as soon as I wake, for I know it will do me good, and help me through the day. — Louisa May Alcott

When I read a daring book or listen to rebellious music, I feel like I've found what freedom really means. — Carla H. Krueger

Reading a non-fiction book is like a religious experience. — Rachel Perry

Learning to read is one of the most extraordinary gifts you'll ever receive, so open up God's Word and read the most extraordinary book ever written. — J.E.B. Spredemann

A book acts as the getaway car when you need to escape.
Even when you're the one writing it. — Julie Wright

How can I survive without a book to read? — David Hill

It's like you're reading a book and every time someone's tearing the pages. — Sara Shepard

You understood me; you helped me understand myself. If reading a book is a naked encounter between two people, I have known you nakedly for years. — Brian Morton

Reading books is fantastic. I didn't do it until ten years ago. It's great. — Sam Amidon

Besides, if they continued where they left off, Faith would finish reading the book and Alec would be snoring next to her. — Kelly Moran

If you don't write, then read. — Sylvia L'Namira

Through books Cathy and I have lived a zillion lives ... our vicarious way
to feel alive. — V.C. Andrews

A life without books is empty. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I've been reading the books. It's the origination, it's the primary source. You should always go back to the books. — Benedict Cumberbatch

[...] She knew it a book it was not just a book. Everything had a meaning. There was an invisible web that connected the words. It was like magic — Ben Oliveira

I always loved reading. Growing up, my favorite book was 'A Child's Garden of Verses,' by Robert Louis Stevenson. — Francine Pascal

Every book is its own black hole. Don't fight the pull; find out where it takes you. — Richelle E. Goodrich

BIBLIOBLISS. Transported into states of transcendent pleasure while immersed in reading a favorite book. — Rob Brezsny

Our hope is that the elementary reading of comics will lead to the joy of reading good books. — Nelson Mandela

She's been reading too much, he thought -had drifted across that line that separated what you might find in a book from what you might do — Chad Harbach

I appreciate a book intended to be judged by its cover. The insincere readers are often weeded out while the sincere readers remain curious. — Criss Jami

Jocelyn recognized reading as a sacred pastime and usually wouldn't interrupt Clary in the middle of a book, even to yell at her. — Cassandra Clare

Reading is a bridge from misery to hope. — Rebecca VanDeMark

While writing a novel I almost completely stop reading books in the same sub-genre for the duration. — Charles Stross

There are two kinds of books. Those that no one reads and those that no one ought to read. — H.L. Mencken

Melancholy isn't a sign of the book's end; it is its inspiration. Melancholy is reading's muse. — Andrew Piper