Top 79 Happy Reading Quotes

#1. A person could be immensely happy reading only him or the writers he loved. But that would be too easy.

Roberto Bolano

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#2. Says who? I was happy reading mindless smut. I'm buying the CliffsNotes.

Helena Hunting

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#3. I curse anyone who reads this book. If you touch it, hell will be waiting. Screw you. Happy reading.

Dawn Kurtagich

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#4. It's because of the way you are. It's why you're happy reading novels. You're only comfortable with a piece of the world that you can hold in your hand.

Lan Samantha Chang

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#5. We love to learn because learning feels good. It both satisfies and stimulates curiosity. Reading a good book, having a meaningful conversation, listening to great music - just doing these things make us happy. They have no extrinsic purpose. To give them one takes away from their joy.

Zander Sherman

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#6. Everyday has its unique blessings.

Lailah Gifty Akita

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#7. If you enjoy books with happy endings than you are better off reading some other book.

Lemony Snicket

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#8. Sex is Number 1 of my Top-10 joys in retirement. Number 2 is reading How to Retire Happy, Wild, and Free. I forgot the other eight.

Ernie J Zelinski

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#9. Reading about Queen Victoria has been a passion of mine since, as a child, I came across Laurence Housman's play 'Happy and Glorious,' with its Ernest Shepard illustrations.

A. N. Wilson

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#10. I'll mess up sometimes. I'll cry for no reason, burn food because I'm lost in another world while reading, snap at you because I'm having a bad day, and be completely irrational at times, but I'll love you, always. You make me so happy, so needed.

Melody Anne

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#11. I'm happy to see book clubs on TV. Talking about books has always been an important and invigorating part of reading them, and it's nice that that is getting attention from the media.

Ann Packer

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#12. Like the roller coaster of life ... novels aren't fun without ups and downs and even an occasional loop.

Carmen DeSousa

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#13. As a kind of castaway myself, I was happy to escape into the fictional world of someone else's trouble.

Octavia E. Butler

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#14. If you are currently in a relationship in which you are also willing to 'do anything to make him happy,' even at your own expense, I want you to stop reading our book. Mark this page, close the book, and hit yourself over the head with it. Then continue reading.

Jason Evert

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#15. This benign property of his prose is not, one hopes, to be attributed to the reason noticed by the eccentric du Garbandier, who said 'the beauty of reading a page of de Selby is that it leads one inescapably to the happy conviction that one is not, of all nincompoops, the greatest'.

Flann O'Brien

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#16. [When] he's here, he's always reading. He says books stop time. I myself think he's crazy ... Don't tell anyone, but when he reads something that he likes he gets real happy, turns on the music, and dances by himself, or with a broom sometimes.

Mark Helprin

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#17. Maelyn smiled. If books could have litters, she'd be just as happy.

Anita Valle

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#18. I'd hate to read all these books ... that much reading could put your eyes out.

Larry McMurtry

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#19. What are you reading?" Owen asks.
"Charlotte's Web," Liz says. "It's really sad. One of the main characters just died."
"You ought to read the book from end to beginning," Owen jokes. "That way, no one dies, and it's always a happy ending.

Gabrielle Zevin

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#20. We are not to practice Bible reading, fasting, solitude, prayer, and other disciplines to make God happy with us but to make space to hear how happy God is with us because of Jesus.

Jimmy Davis

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#21. Can you tell me what happened?"
Her lips thinned as she shook her head. "'Tis not a happy tale."
"You have me reading a book about a girl who tries to kill an entire town. Anything else at this point would be a pick me up.

Jenny B. Jones

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#22. The truth is that every true admirer of the novels cherishes the happy thought that he alone - reading between the lines - has bcome the secret friend of their author.

Katherine Mansfield

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#23. I collect new books the way my friends collect designer handbags. Sometimes, I just like to know I have them and actually reading them is beside the point. Not that I don't eventually end up reading them. I do. But the mere act of buying them makes me happy.

Jennifer Kaufman

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#24. We might be on the same page, but I wasn't happy about reading it.

Charlaine Harris

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#25. I am happy to keep working on books because I'm always reading, and I'm always trying to fall in love.

Nina Jacobson

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#26. So I have loitered my life away, reading books, looking at pictures, going to plays, hearing, thinking, writing on what pleased me best. I have wanted only one thing to make me happy, but wanting that have wanted everything.

William Hazlitt

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#27. Be happy NOW. Feel good NOW. That's the only thing you have to do. And if that's the only thing you get from reading this book, then you have received the greatest truth of The Secret.

Rhonda Byrne

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#28. Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate love of reading.

Rufus Choate

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#29. Great land of sublimated things, thou World of Books, happy asyluum, refreshment and refuge from the world of everyday! ...

H.G.Wells

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#30. Give me a bed and a book and I am happy.

Logan Pearsall Smith

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#31. There are so many books left to read. For that reason alone it is worth going on living. Books make me happy, the help me escape from reality.

Felix J. Palma

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#32. I was happy in the library. Walls of printed pages, evidence of so many created worlds
this was a comfort to me.

Alice Munro

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#33. Reading messed with my brain in an unaccountable way. It made me happy; or something.

Salvatore Scibona

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#34. Ah! Happy they whose hearts can break
And peace of pardon win!
How else may man make straight his path
And cleanse his soul from sin?
How else but through a broken heart
May the Lord Christ enter in?

Oscar Wilde

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#35. Reading had always been my lifeline
an escape to that imaginary world where hurts were fictional and endings happy ...

Phyllis A. Whitney

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#36. Storylines from fiction always seem inherently improbable to occur in real life, yet when we read them we are happy to suspend our disbelief, which may simply suggest that in our everyday lives we have an irrational craving for certainty and probability.

Guy Fraser-Sampson

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#37. If you enjoy reading my books as much as I enjoy writing them, then I am happy. Its got nothing to do with the money.

Peter Rimmer

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#38. Whether or not this story has a happy ending depends, of course, on who is reading it. Whether you are a wolf or a girl.

Kelly Link

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#39. Fortunately, I don't spend too much time reading or worrying about what people have to say, but the goal for me throughout this whole process - throughout my whole life - is to try to be happy.

Landon Donovan

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#40. My reading and drawing drew me away from the ordinary interests, and I lived a great deal in the world of imagination, feeding upon any book that fell into my hands. When I had got hold of a really thick book like Hugo's 'Les Miserables,' I was happy and would go off into a corner to devour it.

Jacob Epstein

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#41. No " Grandlibby replied. "Hail comes from hell. The devil sent it because he's happy that you're reading evil garbage.

Jenny Lawson

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#42. I love you, Half-Pint. Love that little baby. You understand where I'm at with all of that?" ( ... ) "I know you aren't on the same page as me just yet, Cora, and for right now I'm happy enough we're reading the same book. Eventually you have to turn the page, though, you got me?

Jay Crownover

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#43. Happy be the reader plunged into her book who forgot the world and whom world forgot.

Gabrielle Dubois

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#44. I'm concentrating on staying healthy, having peace, being happy, remembering what is important, taking in nature and animals, spending time reading, trying to understand the universe, where science and the spiritual meet.

Joan Jett

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#45. When we, as young women, are given the space to read, the act becomes a happy, private corner we can return to for the rest of our lives. We develop this love of reading by turning to stories that speak to the most special, secret parts of us.

Lena Dunham

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#46. Many people tell me that they don 't know what to feel when they finish one of my books because the story was dark, or complicated, or strange. But while they were reading it, they were inside my world and they were happy. That's good.

Haruki Murakami

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#47. Amie frowned. 'That's what I can't figure out. I mean everyone wants their happy ending, right? No one cares about reading actual literature anymore anyway. All they want is vampires and supernatural mumbo-jumbo. It's sick, really.

Jennifer Silverwood

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#48. I found out a long time ago that if I indulged by stuffing my face with great food, lying about reading books and watching TV or talking on the phone, I was not a happy camper.

Raquel Welch

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#49. Happy will be those who give ear to the words of the dead: - The reading of good works and the observing of their precepts.

Leonardo Da Vinci

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#50. The rustic, the reader of novels, the pure ascetic: these three are truly happy men

Fernando Pessoa

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#51. I had walked into that reading-room a happy, healthy man. I crawled out a decrepit wreck.

Jerome K. Jerome

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#52. 'Et Tu, Babe' was born out of my absolute certainty that a writer's life was solitary and insular, and I was happy with that. I love reading and writing; it's my whole life.

Mark Leyner

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#53. That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.

Anthony Trollope

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#54. I want a good love story and a happy ending. Period. I don't want to deal with real life shit in a book. I'm reading to escape.

R.L. Griffin

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#55. I tend to follow a scattershot approach to reading a lot of very diverse subjects interest me, and I'm quite happy to read stuff on any of them.

Vikram Seth

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#56. I'm only happy when I forget to exist. When just my eyes or my ears or my skin exist.

John Fowles

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#57. I think people who share my dreams can enjoy reading my novels. And that's a wonderful thing. I said that myths are like a reservoir of stories, and if I can act as a similar kind of "reservoir," albeit a modest one, that would make me very happy.

Haruki Murakami

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#58. My first novel - the novel I wrote before 'Midnight's Children' - feels, to me, now, very - I mean, I get embarrassed when I see people reading it. You know, there are some people who, bizarrely, like it. Which I'm, you know, I'm happy for.

Salman Rushdie

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#59. Three films a day, three books a week and records of great music would be enough to make me happy to the day I die.

Francois Truffaut

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#60. I remembered reading somewhere that if you smile at something, it automatically makes you happier.

Elizabeth Eulberg

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#61. I'm perfectly fine with the fact that lots of young folks are wanting to watch anime and read manga. I'm perfectly happy that they are doing things online, reading there as opposed to traditional print magazines.

John Scalzi

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#62. The journey is the mystery ... the destination the answer. If you don't have a happy ending yet, you have not finished reading the right book.

Shannon L. Alder

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#63. I was very happy and honored to create the Professor Garfield Foundation with Ball State to make reading fun.

Jim Davis

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#64. Mercifully, I was at that age when reading was still a passion and thus, save for a happy marriage, the best state possible in which to keep absolute loneliness at bay. I could not have made it through those evenings otherwise.

William Styron

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#65. And then she began to cry, and when I asked her why she was doing that, she said it was because I was to have a happy ending, and it was just like a book; and I wondered what books she'd been reading.

Margaret Atwood

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#66. Do you like Moby Dick?" he asks.
"I hate it," she says. "And I don't say that about many things. Teachers assign it, and parents are happy because their kids are reading something of 'quality.' But it's forcing kids to read books like that that make them think they hate reading.

Gabrielle Zevin

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#67. I value my anonymity. I'm happy to come in on the tube or the train and watch other people reading 'Fifty Shades.'

E.L. James

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#68. I think when I was 12, I started reading Evelyn Waugh, and I loved Evelyn Waugh so much, and I thought: 'This is how the world really is. If I could be Evelyn Waugh, then I would be happy.'

Candace Bushnell

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#69. Reading was my only escape from reality. Through books, I could be whoever I wanted. I could fall in love with the handsome prince, travel to exotic places, and take the leap that almost always had a happy ending.

Teresa Mummert

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#70. It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else.

John Waters

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#71. Associate with the noblest people you can find; read the best books; live with the mighty; but learn to be happy alone.

Saul Bellow

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#72. When famous people are nice to me, it feels good, so I'm happy to hang out with them. It's better than being at home, depressed, reading 'The Hobbit.'

Moby

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#73. For a long time, I'd wanted to write a book that I would be proud and happy and psychologically and morally comfortable about my parents' reading.

Glen Duncan

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#74. ...To see your life flow in obscurity among the treasures of the heart and of nature, happy in your anonymity, and to occasionally lose yourself in reading or in the pleasure of being a sensitive admirer of the fine arts; that's the image of modern life you're looking for!

Paul Amadeus Dienach

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#75. Novels aren't just happy escapes; they are slivers of people's souls, nailed to the pages, dripping ink from veins of wood pulp. Reading the right one at the right time can make all the difference.

Brandon Sanderson

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#76. There Laura spent many happy hours, supposed to be picking fruit for jam, but for the better part of the time reading or dreaming. One corner, overhung by a Samson tree and walled in with bushes and flowers, she called her 'green study'.

Flora Thompson

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#77. I look at her face, so content, so happy. Even more beautiful all flushed with passion and think of how lucky a man I really am.

A.R. Von

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#78. All the homeschooling parents I know meet on a regular basis with other families. They organize field trips, cooking classes, reading clubs and Scout troops. Their children tend to be happy, confident and socially engaged.

Quinn Cummings

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#79. A book is like a vacation for the brain.

Rachel Adams

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