Quotes About Reading

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What a blessing it is to love books as I love them;- to be able to converse with the dead, and to live amidst the unreal!

Thomas Babington Macaulay

It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between.

C.S. Lewis

The world was hers for the reading.

Betty Smith

I love books, by the way, way more than movies. Movies tell you what to think. A good book lets you choose a few thoughts for yourself. Movies show you the pink house. A good book tells you there's a pink house and lets you paint some of the finishing touches, maybe choose the roof style,park your own car out front. My imagination has always topped anything a movie could come up with. Case in point, those darned Harry Potter movies. That was so not what that part-Veela-chick, Fleur Delacour, looked like.

Karen Marie Moning

Sleep is good, he said, And books are better.

George R.R. Martin

The best moments in reading are when you come across something - a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things - which you had thought special and particular to you. And now, here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out, and taken yours

Alan Bennett

If you would tell me the heart of a man, tell me not what he reads, but what he rereads.

François Mauriac

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

John Locke

From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down, I convulsed with laughter. Someday I intend on reading it.

Groucho Marx

Reader's Bill of Rights 1. The right to not read 2. The right to skip pages 3. The right to not finish 4. The right to reread 5. The right to read anything 6. The right to escapism 7. The right to read anywhere 8. The right to browse 9. The right to read out loud 10. The right to not defend your tastes

Daniel Pennac