326 Quotes About Books-reading

Eso es lo que me encanta de la literatura; en un libro encuentras un detalle diminuto que te interesa y ese detalle te lleva a otro libro y algo en ese te lleva a un tercer libro. Es matemáticamente progresivo, sin final a la vista y sin ninguna otra razón que no sea por puro placer.

Doing Something with What You Read. While you can become an expert based on what you learn while reading, the true benefits will occur when you start to implement the ideas and concepts you have learned about. You can also take it to the next level when you share what you learn with others.

Is that from a book?” Andrews asked.Estella looked a Nora and smiled. “Probably. Isn’t everything worth repeating from a book?

She’d always fallen asleep in a nest of words, one hand resting on a beloved favorite, the other curled into the pages of one of her father’s legal treatises or the latest volume from Mr. Henry James or the exciting Mr. Stevenson. It struck her quite suddenly that her new husband might not want to have to reach his bride by crawling over her drawbridge of sharp-cornered tomes. She pushed away the thought on the same breath as it occurred to her

A book is a place to lose yourself and then find yourself once more. A book draws you into its world like a charming host. It should not make you regret accepting its invitation.

Reading books lead to the podium.

The pages were dog-eared, and heavily annotated in Karla's own hand. (...) She consumed her books, I saw. She devoured her books, and was unafraid to mark them, even to scar them, with her own comments and system of references.

To forget the world and all its troubles in a story. Was there anything greater than losing and finding yourself in the pages of a book?

Fiction is the best vacation. I always discover something new.