Quotes about Reading

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A half-read book is a half-finished love affair. — David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas
If one wanted to depict the whole thing graphically, every episode, with its climax, would require a three-dimensional, — Italo Calvino, If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
We shouldn't teach great books we should teach a love of reading. Knowing the contents of a few works of literature is a — B.F. Skinner
Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order — Gustave Flaubert
People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading. — Logan Pearsall Smith
To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life. — W. Somerset Maugham, Books and You
Closed in a room, my imagination becomes the universe, and the rest of the world is missing out. — Criss Jami, Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality
Books can be dangerous. The best ones should be labeled ‘This could change your life’. — Helen Exley
My life is a reading list. — John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany
Don't blow off another's candle for it won't make yours shine brighter. — Jaachynma N.E. Agu, The Prince and the Pauper
What kind of life can you have in a house without books? — Sherman Alexie, Flight
You don't read Gatsby, I said, to learn whether adultery is good or bad but to learn about how complicated issues such a — Azar Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran
Some say life is the thing, but I prefer reading. — Ruth Rendell, A Judgement in Stone
Don't set your goals by what other people deem important. — Jaachynma N.E. Agu, The Prince and the Pauper
An entire life spent reading would have fulfilled my every desire; I already knew that at the age of seven. The texture — Michel Houellebecq, Whatever
Do you know why books such as this are so important? Because they have quality. And what does the word quality mean? To — Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own. I learned who I was and who I wanted to be, what I — Anna Quindlen, How Reading Changed My Life
That's what I do. Watch movies and read. Sometimes I even pretend to write, but I'm not fooling anyone. Oh, and I go to — Nicole Krauss, The History of Love
A written word is the choicest of relics. It is something at once more intimate with us and more universal than any othe — Henry David Thoreau, Walden
You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me. — C.S. Lewis