554 Quotes About Reading-books

Language spread its warm, absurd rays over all my adolescent thoughts, and I felt the way we all long to feel: moody, lonely, lovesick and explosive with the prospects of tomorrow.

Surround yourself with music. Just be sure to turn the radio on.

She read novels. One book after another, sometimes at the rate of one a day, for a solid year. An acceptable form of escape that didn’t leave a hangover.

There is something magical about losing yourself in a world that doesn't exist.

Read to live another life, even if only for a chapter.

One can’t prescribe books, even the best books, to people unless one knows a good deal about each individual person.

Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed.

Reading is dreaming. Reading is entering a world of imagination shared between reader and author. Reading is getting beyond the words to the story or meaning underneath.

Remember that the truth within yourself will always be greater than the truth found in these pages. These stories are here to guide us—to help us find that truth, not to tell us what it is.