Reading Quotes

“Often the case with people who don't read fiction. Hollow inside, monochrome, so they can switch gears no problem. They swallow something and forget about it as soon as it goes down their throat. Constitutionally incapable of empathy. These are people who most need to read, but in most cases it's already too late.”
― Kōtarō Isaka, Bullet Train

“Books have a way of making themselves known." Kaya added. "When they're meant to be read, they'll appear. When you need them, you'll always be able to find the right book for you,”
― Julie Abe, Eva Evergreen, Semi-Magical Witch

“The Library is my haven. I can always find a corner of the stacks to call my own, to read and dream. I want to make sure everyone has that chance, most especially the people who feel different and need a place to call home.”
― Janet Skeslien Charles, The Paris Library

“I am saying that you should read everyone else's story with the same respect as you do your own.”
― Syed M. Masood, The Bad Muslim Discount

“Promiscuous reading is necessary to the constituting of human nature.”
― John Milton, Areopagitica

“Listening is an act of community, which takes space, time and silence.

Reading is a means of listening.
Reading is not as passive as hearing or viewing. It’s an act: you do it. You read at your pace, your own speed, not the ceaseless, incoherent, gabbling, shout rush of the media. You take in what you can and want to take in, not what they shove at you fast and hard and loud in order to overwhelm and control you. Reading a story, you may be told something, but you’re not being sold anything. And though you’re usually alone when you read, you are in communion with another mind. You aren’t being brainwashed or co-opted or used; you’ve joined in an act of the imagination. […]

Books may not be “books”, of course, they may not be ink on wood pulp but a flicker of electronics in the palm of a hand. Incoherent and commercialized and worm-eaten with porn and hype and blather as it is, electronic publication offers those who read a strong new means of active community. The technology is not what matters. Words are what matter. The sharing of words. The activation of imagination through the reading of words.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, Words Are My Matter: Writings About Life and Books, 2000-2016

“Everything Sophie read was delicious, electric mental sugar, feeding a high. She felt as if she were learning a new language: the wordless way that the world communicated. All she had to do was pay attention. (page 28)”
― Madeleine Henry, The Love Proof

“Indolence has always been my most essential quality. ‘Essential’ in the sense that it is the single quality I am convinced I possess and by which I can be recognised and remembered, and also in the sense that I feel most essentially like myself when I am exercising it. I cannot recollect a time when the idea of going for a walk was not a torment to me; a proposition that endangered my constant wish to stay where I was. I imagine myself, child and adult, curled up in an armchair, reading and being told (as a child) or invited (as an adult) to go out and do something. I cannot think why a person sitting with evident contentment in an armchair causes the desire in others for their immediate activity.”
― Jenny Diski, Why Didn’t You Just Do What You Were Told?

“As a child I very much objected to books that tried to teach me something. I just wanted to read for pleasure, and I did.”
― Beverly Cleary

“— Why does anyone reread a book or rewatch a movie? It brings a sense of comfort.”
― Claire Contreras, Fables & Other Lies

“It’s not how many books you read or even the type of books you read. It’s how the books make you feel.”
― Carmela Dutra

“In short, he became so absorbed in his books that he spent his nights from sunset to sunrise, and his days from dawn to dark, poring over them; and what with little sleep and much reading his brains got so dry that he lost his wits. His fancy grew full of what he used to read about in his books, enchantments, quarrels, battles, challenges, wounds, wooings, loves, agonies, and all sorts of impossible nonsense; and it so possessed his mind that the whole fabric of invention and fancy he read of was true, that to him no history in the world had more reality in it.”
― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quijote de la Mancha I

“The only thing, the sole thing I am proud of , is
book reading; rest is just absurd paraphrasing.”
― Teufel Damon

“If only some eternal book existed, primed for our enjoyment and whims, no less inventive in the populous morning than the secluded night, oriented toward all hours of the world. Your favourite books, reader, are like rough drafts of that book without a final reading.

- Literary Pleasure”
― Jorge Luis Borges, Selected Non-Fictions

“I think of myself as being essentially a reader. I have ventured into writing, but I think what I have read is far more important than what I have written. For one reads what one likes—yet one writes not what one would like to write but what one is able to write.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“Percy Buckle looked around his little room and knew he never had to weigh a pound of flour again in his life.

I can read all day.

Even as a grocer he had been a bookish fellow. All his life it had been the same -- even when he was too tired to manage more than half a page of Ivanhoe in a night, even when he smelt inescapably of sprats and mackerel, he had been a member of a lending library, and a regular attendant at the Workingman's Institute.”
― Peter Carey, Jack Maggs

“La literatura te obliga a tutear a tus pensamientos y a descubrir si son realmente tuyos.”
― Alessandro D'Avenia, Cose che nessuno sa

“He sat there and read in silence, in pure adulterated silence and he found it strangely cathartic. He had read this book before and knew it had a happy ending. The sort of ending that makes a man believe there is still some good to be found in this world. Ewald needed to believe in good because he could feel it fading within himself”
― J.R. Potts, Visitor on The Mountain

“I can read a thousand words and have every one of them drift past my heart without touching any part of it. Or I can read a handful of words and have them seize my heart with such a grip that I will be forever held fast. Such is the difference between the art of writing and the lesser task of arranging words.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“If the words are just words, then the book is just pages. But if the words capture great ideas and intimately frame them so that our lives are transformed by the weight of them, then you have a book that can never be defined by its pages.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“When you sit down with a good book, you will stand up as a better person.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“A good book leaves you better than the way it found you.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“But everyone knows architects don’t read, they riffle.”
― Franco La Cecla, Against Architecture

“Concluí que os livros nos enlevam, mas nunca o bastante, e que ao mesmo tempo que nos aproximam de uma revelação final podem nos distrair e atrasar nosso progresso.”
― Luis Fernando Verissimo, Ironias do tempo

“Andrew sings with his energetic and powerful voice, grabbing Sasha's hand and twirling her around. ♬♫ "There is something Unique. Something True. A Rare Beauty within you. I dare you to show it!" ♬♫”
― Sunshine Rodgers, The Characters Within

“Reading authentic books becomes flowers of knowledge.
Experience and vision become a fragrance of knowledge.
To discover and understand that, it is insight.”
― Ehsan Sehgal

“Reading(anything) is at once a solitary activity and a connection with another mind.”
― Michael Corthell, Waldo Solomon

“Without reading, there is no renewal of mind.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Me without reading is like me without food. I would wilt and become silent. I don't read because it is 'better' than watching television. I read because I don't know what else to do.”
― Pandora Sykes, How Do We Know We're Doing It Right: & Other Essays on Modern Life

“உலகெங்கும் யாரோ, ஏதோ ஒரு இடத்தில், ரகசியமாக, சந்தோஷமாக, வடிகாலாக, அன்பின் பரிசாக, காதலின் நினைவாக, போராட்டத்தின் துணையாக, தனிமையின் நண்பனாக, ஞானத்தின் திறவுகோலாக, அறிவின் உச்சமாக, ஒரு புத்தகத்தைக் கையில் வைத்துப் புரட்டுகிறார்கள். உலகின் மீது வெளிச்சம் பரவுவது போன்ற மாயமது. புத்தகத்தைத் திறக்கும் போது இருந்த மனிதன் அதை முடிக்கும் போது மாறிவிடுகிறான். என்னவாக மாறினான், என்ன கிடைத்தது என்று அவனால் துல்லியமாகச் சொல்லமுடியாது. ஆனால் அந்த மாற்றம் புதுவகை ஆனந்தம். புது வகை நம்பிக்கை, புதிய திறப்பு என்றே சொல்வேன்.”
― S. Ramakrishnan