554 Quotes About Reading-books

You will never know the purpose of a book in your life until you read it, and you will never know which book you should be reading until you read many others that you shouldn’t.

Those who spend the greater part of their time in reading or writing books are, of course, apt to take rather particular notice of accumulations of books when they come across them. They will not pass a stall, a shop, or even a bedroom-shelf without reading some title, and if they find themselves in an unfamiliar library, no host need trouble himself further about their entertainment.

Reading is the life-saving water for our minds. Drink pure words as much as you need and remain alive!

Sitting in the brightly lit library, surrounded by books, in total silence, that was ma personal zenith.

It feels like someone is gripping my heart and twisting it. It feels like I can't breathe. I shut my eyes tightly against the memory that is threatening to surface. I can't breathe.Can't breathe. Can't breathe!

I am what I have ever read

When I read a book, I put in all the imagination I can, so that it is almost like writing the book as well as reading it - or rather, it is like living it. It makes reading so much more exciting, but I don't suppose many people try to do it.

Books required no interchanges of thoughts and feelings, no trading of expectations, no traffic of words, no menace of real loss. Reading books required far less energy than reading people; the pages seldom disappointed him and they never died.

There's nothing like a printed book; the weight, the woody scent, the feel, the look.