554 Quotes About Reading-books

Life is too short to read books that I'm not enjoying.

Los libros siempre han sido un escape en mi vida una manera de viajar y salir de la realidad, conocer lugares, vivir otras vidas, tener aventuras. Cuando abro un libro todo puede suceder.

Books fall open, you fall in

You’ve got to reach bedrock to become depressed enough before you are forced to accept the reality and enormity of the problem.

But, how do you know if an ending is truly good for the characters unless you've traveled with them through every page?

On getting lost in a book. Set adriftA life unknownConnections formLove is sewn

...a novel, like a myth or any great work of art, can become an initiation that helps us to make a painful rite of passage from one phase of life, one state of mind, to another. A novel, like a myth, teaches us to see the world differently; it shows us how to look into our own hearts and to see our world from a perspective that goes beyond our own self-interest.

Books don't change people; paragraphs do, Sometimes even sentences.

And if our book consumption remains as low as it has been, at least let us admit that it is because reading is a less exciting pastime than going to the dogs, the pictures or the pub, and not because books, whether bought or borrowed, are too expensive.