Top 100 Quotes About Reading A Book
#1. To me, the point of a novel is to take you to a still place. You can multitask with a lot of things, but you can't really multitask reading a book.
Jonathan Franzen
#2. Reading a book, watching a movie, going to a play, it's transporting, and very, very exciting. And to be a part of that, creating things with your imagination, whoa.
Steve Carell
#3. I'm not only a songwriter but I'm a massive music fan and I love going to shows. It's different than reading a book.
Craig Finn
#4. I stared at them. 'Every time what?' I said, as Nathan put the money into Will's hand.
'He said you'd be reading a book. I said you'd be watching telly. He always wins.'
My sandwich stilled at my lips. 'Always?
You've been betting on how boring my life is?
Jojo Moyes
#5. He looked so strange and absentminded; quite obviously he had just been reading a book, one could tell that from the expression in his eyes, from his hair, from the abstracted way in which he managed his hands.
Jens Peter Jacobsen
#6. I don't thrive on stress. I love lying on the deck on our houseboat reading a book.
Bear Grylls
#7. Magda was reading a book by a Trappist, in a better mood, and I was sitting on the edge of the bed, fingering my useless map.
Junot Diaz
#8. I miss my mother very much, and I feel closest to her when I have dinner in the oven and the children are nearby playing and I'm reading a book or doing some little project.
Caitlin Flanagan
#9. History is a strange experience. The world is quite small now; but history is large and deep. Sometimes you can go much farther by sitting in your own home and reading a book of history, than by getting onto a ship or an airplane and traveling a thousand miles.
Gilbert Highet
#10. I can't think of too many things as exciting as reading a book for the first time!
Jen Selinsky
#11. Sarah Palin - now don't laugh - is writing a book. Not just reading a book, writing a book. Actually, in the word of the publisher, she's 'collaborating' on a book. What an embarrassment! It's one of these 'I told you,' books that jocks do.
Chris Matthews
#12. By reading a book, one can learn in a matter of days what it took the author an entire lifetime to learn
Pastor John Weaver
#13. Television viewing has become for me a completely different experience, because I don't watch shows on a weekly basis. I wait until the DVD or I TiVo everything and wait until the end of a season and watch it all over a weekend. For me that's a really satisfying experience, like reading a book.
Alan Ball
#14. Reading a book is like life: you live it one page at a time.
Ronald E. Yates
#15. It's like reading a book about a life that you will never occupy, but that's the beauty of being transported.
Sarah Jessica Parker
#16. I've just finished reading a book about the brilliant Margaret Rutherford. She wasn't a beauty, but inside she was absolutely blazing and passionate about her work. She's one of those life-affirming characters.
Sophie Thompson
#17. Being with her always felt like gazing the stars and into the infinity, reading a book which never ends. She had no boundaries, all she knew was to shine, and live without any walls around her on every page.
Akshay Vasu
#18. Sometime during your life - in fact, very soon - you may find yourself reading a book, and you may notice that a book's first sentence can often tell you what sort of story your book contains.
Lemony Snicket
#19. It may be escapist, but if I have a choice between watching the news or reading a book which gets me to see the world through different eyes, I will always choose the latter!
Christina Westover
#20. One of the things I love most about second person is that it reminds the reader that they are reading a text. It doesn't allow them to drift into the story and not notice that they are reading a book - a book that has an author.
Rob Roberge
#21. I am sure everyone has had the experience of reading a book and finding it vibrating with aliveness, with colour and immediacy. And then, perhaps some weeks later, reading it again and finding it flat and empty. Well, the book hasn't changed: you have.
Doris Lessing
#22. In the evening I finished reading a book, and because I was feeling so alone, I buried the book on the edge of the forest with a borrowed spade.
Werner Herzog
#23. I don't like this culture of reading a book and spitting out an immediate reaction.
Caroline Kepnes
#24. I want people to read good work. If I see someone reading a book by Lorrie Moore or Jennifer Egan, I'm psyched. If I see them reading X Latin American Writer Who Sucks, I'm not psyched. But in terms of news, I do think that's important.
Daniel Alarcon
#25. I read all the time. I was reading a book I admire very much by Alice McDermot called Charming Billy.
John McGahern
#26. The most profound personal growth does not happen while reading a book or meditating. It happens in the throes of conflict, when you are angry, afraid, frustrated. It happens when you are doing the same old thing and you suddenly realize that you have a choice.
Vironika Tugaleva
#27. The girl whose table I occupied was reading a book but I couldn't help but notice that all this time, she was secretly watching me.
"You are beautiful."
I took my eyes off my phone and I saw the girl talking to me. I was embarrassed and didn't know what to say or how to react.
Nico J. Genes
#28. I still believe that sitting down and reading a book is the best way to really learn something.
Eric Schmidt
#29. I really can't write fantasy. I cannot invent a world which does not exist. And I can't read fantasy either. As soon as I realise I'm reading a book that hasn't got its roots in a reality I can comprehend, I switch off.
Michael Morpurgo
#30. You cannot get PTSD from reading a book or from hearing a story, even repeated stories over and over.
Dale Archer
#31. It's strange to describe reading a book as a really great experience, but that's kind of how it felt.
Stephen Chbosky
#32. White people need to let people know that they have made their way through hundreds or even thousands of books. After all, what's the point of reading a book if people don't know you've read it? It's like a tree falling in the forest.
Christian Lander
#33. When I was 9 or 10 years old it wasn't the thing to be seen doing - reading a book in your spare time.
Tom Felton
#34. We cannot learn patience by reading a book or hearing a lecture. The only way we can learn patience is by going through the trials that God assigns to us. The trials of life are the tools God uses to mature us, to build our faith, and to get us to trust the Spirit and not the flesh.
Warren W. Wiersbe
#35. Amid the push to excellence, with its measurement and accountability, it is easy to lose sight of a key ingredient in reading a book - the pleasure it bring us, something too many boil down to a dirty word: FUN.
Jim Trelease
#36. It's like you're reading a book and every time someone's tearing the pages.
Sara Shepard
#37. When I'm going to see a comedian, I don't want to see them hold back, and when I'm reading a book, I don't want to hear an abridged version.
Kathy Griffin
#38. A wiry crewman named Kobis sat at the end of a couch, reading a book in the low light, clearly relishing the closest thing he ever found to peace and quiet
V.E Schwab
#39. The intellectual is, quite simply, a human being who has a pencil in his or her hand when reading a book.
George Steiner
#40. Just keep her away from bookstores, if you can."
Bookstores.
Thanks, Grayson. That helps.
Apparently whoever said, "no harm ever came from reading a book," hadn't met this girl.
Jena Leigh
#41. When it comes to the point where you occasionally look forward to being in prison on the basis that you might be able to spend a day reading a book, the realization dawns that perhaps the situation has become a little more stressful than you would like.
Julian Assange
#42. A wild and crazy weekend involves sitting on the front porch, smoking a cigar, reading a book.
Robert M. Gates
#43. Reading a book, and taking the time to ruminate and make inferences and engage the imaginational processing, is more cognitively enriching, without a doubt, than the short little bits that you might get if you're into the 30-second digital mode.
Ken Pugh
#44. He had learned how reading a book can take you away from anywhere, and make you feel like you're somewhere else, and someone else.. Even if only for a little while.
Ava Dianne Day
#45. Today I was reading a book about a movie that I thought I could relate to. I read approximately the first 15 words, before I realized that the authors note won't tell me much about the pages ahead of it.
Andrew King
#46. I love houses, all the things they tell me, so that's one reason. I don't mind working as a cleaning woman. It's just like reading a book.
Lucia Berlin
#47. I'm reading a book about Romaine Brooks, a wonderful painter from early in the last century.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
#48. Statistically, if you're reading this sentence, you're an oddball. The average American spends three minutes a day reading a book. At this moment, you and I are engaged in an essentially antiquated interaction. Welcome, fellow Neanderthal!
Dick Meyer
#49. Are we seriously reading a book together?" I asked in disbelief. "Yep. I need to see what all the fuss is about with these so-called book boyfriends you have. You never know, I might find myself a book girlfriend if I'm lucky." He winked and wiggled his eyebrows suggestively.
Rachel Brookes
#50. When reading a book, be very certain that you never go past a word you do not fully understand. The only reason a person gives up a study or becomes confused or unable to learn is because he or she has gone past a word that was not understood.
L. Ron Hubbard
#51. Enlightenment is the culmination of self-knowledge, pure unadulterated knowledge. Not knowledge you can get from reading a book, it comes from perfecting your awareness, your mind.
Frederick Lenz
#52. I'm reading a book, because I'm brainy. No, it is a book - if you don't know, it is like a blog except bigger.
Craig Ferguson
#53. There is something divine, something artistic, and something supreme in reading a book in a peaceful garden.
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#55. For a child, reading a book can be such an intense experience.
Michelle Paver
#56. When you are reading a book in a dark room, and come to a difficult part, you take it to a window to get more light. So take your Bibles to Christ.
Robert Murray M'Cheyne
#57. There are supposed to be endorphins or whatever that make you feel great when you exercise. I don't think I have any, because I only feel great when I'm lying on the sofa reading a book, possibly while simultaneously eating biscuits.
Judith Flanders
#58. I was a misfit, but I think most teenagers feel that way. I don't care if you were a popular jock or the kid who spent his lunch hours in a stairwell reading a book, we all seem to have dealt with insecurities of one kind or another throughout our high school years.
Charles De Lint
#59. Reading a book that challenges you is the best way to practice facing real-world fears.
Carla H. Krueger
#60. She may be lying in bed reading a book, she may be making love with a prize fighter, or she may be running like mad through a field of stubble, one shoe one, one shoe off, a man named Corn Cob pursuing her hotly. Wherever she is I am standing in complete darkness; her absence blots me out.
Henry Miller
#61. I've lived a thousand lives just by reading a book
Alice Kuipers
#62. I remember reading a book set in the future, it was written in the 1870s projecting to 1920, and this time traveler said you couldn't tell the difference between men and women. He saw what was coming.
Vivienne Westwood
#63. Going out at night and having a fabulous social life takes a lot out of you, and I don't know if I have that much to give, honestly. I would rather give that time to my kids or spend that time reading a book or watching a film. I am selfish and lazy.
Kajol
#64. Books hold most of the secrets of the world, most of the thoughts that men and women have had. And when you are reading a book, you and the author are alone together-just the two of you.
E.B. White
#65. Everyone brings their own perceptions when reading a book about a real person. At the end they will take away whatever they wish.
Patricia Montandon
#66. Neurosexism promotes damaging, limiting, potentially self-fulfilling stereotypes. Three years ago, I discovered my son's kindergarten teacher reading a book that claimed that his brain was incapable of forging the connection between emotion and language. And so I decided to write this book.
Cordelia Fine
#67. He nods, his eyes on her like he's reading a book he's just getting to the end of and can't be interrupted.
Alden Bell
#68. Has anyone you know ever been ritually mutilated because they were seen reading a book?
Neal Stephenson
#69. To me; reading a book is like watching a movie. Once I start, I can't stop until it's over.
Anonymous
#70. Never underestimate the power of gaining a new perspective by simply changing your immediate environment. Going for a walk, reading a book, or talking to a friend can provide you with life-changing insights that you not otherwise attain while remaining stagnant.
Hal Elrod
#71. There is something awfully nice about reading a book again, with all the half-unconscious memories it brings back.
C.S. Lewis
#72. Some people can't learn to play the guitar by reading a book. You have to actually try to manage a bit and you won't do well at first.
Keith Rabois
#73. A true intellectual is a man who, after reading a book and being convinced by its arguments, will shoot someone or, more likely, order someone shot.
John McCarthy
#74. Murder, arson, adultery, drugging and drinking, cruel politics
reading a book crammed with such activities can make the timid and yearning among us feel like the happiest people in the world.
Edith Pearlman
#75. No matter how tight the shot is, if I'm narrating it too much, there's a barrier between you and the experience, because the process of reading a book, or watching a movie, or watching a play is that you're watching a dream.
Clark Gregg
#76. Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms.
Angela Carter
#77. Court TV. I can't stop watching it. I am absolutely obsessed! If I'm not reading a book or spending time with my husband, my friends or my dog, I am watching Court TV.
Debra Messing
#78. I'm not into all this academic stuff. Too much analysis. What ever happened to reading a book because you liked it?
Benjamin Alire Saenz
#79. Today I fell asleep reading a book. The book is called INSOMNIA. I win.
Adam Young
#80. You can always spot bright people. They are reading a book.
Gary Soto
#81. If you were a medieval scholar reading a book, you knew that there was a reasonable likelihood you'd never see that particular text again, and so a high premium was placed on remembering what you read. You couldn't just pull a book off the shelf to consult it for a quote or an idea.
Joshua Foer
#82. The sum of such chaos was that I seemed to be reading a book that never really started and never quite finished.
Richard Flanagan
#83. Even when your heart was hurting, there was something so hopeful about reading a book filled with love. The pages were somewhat of a reminder that maybe one day I would be
Brittainy C. Cherry
#84. My favorite daydream, it was this: I would be reading a book alone in my room, and no one would ever, ever interrupt me.
Ann Tyler
#85. Somehow reading a book never feels like sitting still.
Jef Mallett
#86. When you read a supernatural suspense story or a ghost story, or a horror story, the evil at play is something that you can dismiss. And I wonder if, in this time, if people really want to be sitting on the subway reading a book about someone releasing a dirty bomb on the subway.
Michael Koryta
#87. I think Vikings have always been popular, haven't they? I remember being a kid and being in second grade reading a book about this Viking warrior.
Cullen Bunn
#88. As opposed to being on the Internet, there's something really nice about reading a book or talking to authors.
Hans Zimmer
#89. I'm reading a book on infinity - I can' wait to see how it ends!
Iain Pattison
#90. If the reader enters a kind of immersive experience reading a book, then I have to enter a kind of immersive state to do my best work.
Jeff VanderMeer
#91. I'm definitely not some kind of reformed badass created by my extraordinary experiences, either. Just ask the spider that crawled on me the other night while I was reading a book in bed. Mrs. Gregory about had a heart attack I screamed so loud.
J.A. Redmerski
#92. Reading a book about management isn't going to make you a good manager any more than a book about guitar will make you a good guitarist, but it can get you thinking about the most important concepts.
Drew Houston
#93. I couldn't imagine anyone ever reading a book enough to make it look like that. It looked like it had been driven over by a school bus after someone had taken a bath with it.
Maggie Stiefvater
#94. When I wake up in the morning and I turn that film on, it's like reading a book and it's exciting. I don't read books, but if I read books it would be like reading a book.
Les Miles
#95. You have to remember that it is impossible to commit a crime while reading a book.
John Waters
#96. For me reading a book is what I like doing, curled up in a corner in a comfortable chair.
Pete Hamill
#98. It's not that I don't like people. It's just that when I'm in the company of others - even my nearest and dearest - there always comes a moment when I'd rather be reading a book.
Maureen Corrigan
#99. It's the feelings or emotions that you experience while you're reading a book that you remember, not the details that make up the plot.
Frederick Dillen
#100. You're never alone when you're reading a book.
Susan Wiggs
