326 Quotes About Books-reading

I also like to escape inside their world,tucked behind their colorful spines. It forces me to fully investmy mind into what I'm doing, not just my ears or my eyes.

وَلا أحدَ يعْرِفُ أنَّنا كلمَا أغلقْنَا كتاباً كلما سددنَا النوافِذَ وتركنَا عالماً بكاملِهِ يموتُ اختناقاً

And I am a writer, writer of fictionsI am the heart that you call homeAnd I've written pages upon pagesTrying to rid you from my bones...

I marveled at how they were all closed up, asleep with their secrets unseen until you reached up and took the book down from the shelf.

Since I was trying so hard to make books lead my life, I didn’t want to read them and then just put them back on the shelf and say, “good book,” as if I was patting a good dog. I wanted books to change me, and I wanted to write books that would change others.

There is pleasure from learning the simple truth, and there is a pleasure from learning that the truth is not simple.

I generally read every night before I fall asleep: Brad does too. I find it comforting to lie beside my husband, each of us with a book in our hands. I see it as a period of calm and intimacy, and as the perfect metaphor-together, yet individual-for our marriage.

I know they're not actually talking but the books on my desk seem to whisper "Drop what you're doing! Set aside your poetry! Open us, read us! Read slowly while you're at it. Always read us - every day - before you play.

In her minds eye she sat there, in the domesticated golden sunlight on the velvet sofa, lapped around by carpets and books and mahogany, solitary and content, as if, in fact, cloistered.