554 Quotes About Reading-books

To think that she had read the same elegiac prose he now beheld with such quiet awe made his heart sing.

The joy of reading with our children doesn't stop as they, and we, get older; it simply changes.

If this were a novel, I'd stop reading right now. I'd throw it across the room.

If you don't like to read, try a genre related to the movies, TV shows and online games you love. You will find your passion.

Literature supplements the lives of people and enables us to feel connected with the world. Shared stories blunt a sense of tragic aloneness, and endow us with the tools to understand our humanness. Reading about the lives of other people acquaints us with the hardships of other people. The authorial voices of narrative prose express our shared feelings of deprivation

Henry read indiscriminately and widely... even so, one suspects him of exaggerating his precocity. Excluding the field of sex, there is no other area in which we are quite so free to lie as in boasting of our prowess as readers

Today I am leading because yesterday I was reading.

People who love reading get an instantly warm feeling in their bellies when they hear others describe getting comfortable with a good book.

These are my habits and the way I spend my life: studying literature.