Quotes About Reading

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

Malcolm X

Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.

Fernando Pessoa

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

Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they'll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back.

John Green

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel must be intolerably stupid.

Jane Austen

He liked all books because he liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his head.

John Green

It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.

Oscar Wilde

Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators.

Stephen Fry

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

Alan Bennett