6,477 Quotes About Reading

Libraries will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no libraries.

Reading, for me, is like this: consumptive, pleasing, calming, as much as edifying. It's how I feel after a good dinner. That's why I do it so often: It feels wonderful. The book is mind and I insert myself into it, cover it entire, ear my way through every last slash and dot. That's something you can do with a book, unlike television or movies or the Internet. You can eat it, or mark it, like a dog does on a hydrant.

Un libro leído a medias es una aventura amorosa incompleta.

Men love women who are courageous for it means they can go all the way with him in his pursuit of his good dreams and intentions.

Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind.

From the moment I picked up your book until I put it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.

In omnibus requiem quaesivi, et nusquam inveni nisi in angulo cum libro.(Everywhere I have sought peace and not found it, except in a corner with a book.)

I believe that reading and writing are the most nourishing forms of meditation anyone has so far found. By reading the writings of the most interesting minds in history, we meditate with our own minds and theirs as well. This to me is a miracle.

We do not learn for the benefit of anyone, we learn to unlearn ignorance.