Quotes About Reading

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The way a book smells when you thumb through it. The way quiet winter air makes you feel like no one else exists. The smell of the woods after a thunderstorm. That split second before your chair tips back. The feeling right before you cry. The euphoria before the heartbreak. That moment when you wonder if they think of you the way you think of them. These things, I live for.

Katie Humphreys

Outside of a dog, a book is your best friend, and inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.

Groucho Marx

Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.

Fernando Pessoa

My alma mater was books, a good library.... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.

Malcolm X

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

Hilary Mantel

After all, reading is arguably a far more creative and imaginative process than writing; when the reader creates emotion in their head, or the colors of the sky during the setting sun, or the smell of a warm summer's breeze on their face, they should reserve as much praise for themselves as they do for the writer - perhaps more.

Jasper Fforde

A peasant that reads is a prince in waiting.

Walter Mosley

The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.

George Orwell

A short story is a different thing all together - a short story is like a kiss in the dark from a stranger.

Stephen King

We are of opinion that instead of letting books grow moldy behind an iron grating, far from the vulgar gaze, it is better to let them wear out by being read.