554 Quotes About Reading-books

I’d had the idea, once, that if I could get the chance before I died I would read all the good books there were. Now I began to see that I wasn’t apt to make it. This disappointed me, for I really wanted to read them all.

Always seeking

That's how you have to read this book, you see. You wade through a few sentences, then stop and think about them, then wade through a few more.

You have to have cake while you’re reading. It’s the law.

The main interest in life and work is to become someone else that you were not in the beginning. If you knew when you began a book what you would say at the end, do you think that you would have the courage to write it? What is true for writing and for a love relationship is true also for life. The game is worthwhile insofar as we don't know what will be the end.

It appears that reading, among other things, should be added to the list of endangered items. People shy from it so readily, and they seem shameless in their pursuit.

Reading will give you happiness, happiness will lighten up your face, and lightened face will attract favor.

The reader, the booklover, must meet his own needs without paying too much attention to what his neighbors say those needs should be.

Dogeared pages means someone is reading a paperback...