554 Quotes About Reading-books

I'm pretty sure my addiction to reading has just reached a whole new level.

A person can escape an ingrained pattern of mental incapacity or ‘non compos mentis’ (“no power of the mind”) by reading, writing, thinking, and studying their environment for telling external determinates that will shape a journey of the mind, body, and soul.

People who say they don't have time to read simply don't want to.

An entire life spent reading would have fulfilled my every desire; I already knew that at the age of seven. The texture of the world is painful, inadequate; unalterable, or so it seems to me. Really, I believe that an entire life spent reading would have suited me best. Such a life has not been granted me...

I spend money on convenient, comfortable and luxurious things; I spend money on books too.

Don't buy books for your shelf, buy them for yourself.

There is much to discover that's not on the back cover!

Be as careful of the books you read, as of the company you keep; for your habits and character will be as much influenced by the former as the latter.

If you have read 6,000 books in your lifetime, or even 600, it's probably because at some level you find 'reality' a bit of a disappointment.