Top 100 Quotes About Reading Books
#1. I teach 18- to 21-year-olds - the 'Harry Potter' generation. They grew up as voracious readers, reading books in this exploding genre. But at some point, I would love for them to give Umberto Eco or A.S. Byatt a try. I hope 'A Discovery of Witches' will serve as a kind of stepping-stone.
Deborah Harkness
#2. Reading books you like can soothe an invisible wound that irritatingly bleeds one's mood.
Angelica Hopes
#3. I liked reading books that nearly killed me, books that helped tell me who I was, the son who spites his father by reading such books.
Don DeLillo
#4. 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
#5. Reading books is fantastic. I didn't do it until ten years ago. It's great.
Sam Amidon
#6. I really like knowledge and reading books and just generally immersing myself in information.
Adam D'Angelo
#8. she had been moping around school, not wanting to do anything besides painting and reading books.
Kim Richardson
#9. I'm always reading books - as many as there are. I ration myself on them so that I'll always be in supply.
Ernest Hemingway,
#10. The fact is that our kids aren't reading books - or frankly, much of anything lately. Schools are under funded, some schools even closing their libraries. Parents have to realize that it's their job, and not the school's job, to get kids into the habit of reading for fun.
James Patterson
#11. Keep reading books, but remember that a book's only a book, and you should learn to think for yourself.
Maxim Gorky
#12. You don't learn anything just by reading books.
You learn only by receiving blows.
Swami Prajnanpad
#13. The freedom to be someone else entirely and be different versions of something. That's what I loved and I loved watching movies and I loved watching television, I loved reading books. That kind of escapism into another world was my favorite thing.
Gwendoline Christie
#14. I learned how to cook, began reading books on food. I began to understand about nutrition. It never had occurred to me that what you ate could affect how you felt. It could affect your health. It seems obvious now, but at age 23 or 22 or whatever I was, it wasn't obvious at all.
John Mackey
#15. What are blue-stockings?' asked Tommy.
Naturally you don't know,' replied the other. 'If you did, you would sympathize more with Bluebeard. They were ladies who were always reading books. They even read them aloud.
G.K. Chesterton
#16. For Borges, the core of reality lay in books; reading books, writing books, talking about books. In a visceral way, he was conscious of continuing a dialogue begun thousands of years before and which he believed would never end.
Alberto Manguel
#17. Many people think they cannot have knowledge or understanding of God without reading books. But hearing is better than reading, and seeing is better than hearing. Hearing about Benares is different from reading about it; but seeing Benares is different from either hearing or reading.
Ramakrishna
#18. Men do everything that men do, from waging war to reading books, for one purpose only: to get laid.
David Burr Gerrard
#19. Americans need to develop a "habit of mind" that includes reading books.
David Souter
#20. One of the maddening ironies of writing books is that it leaves so little time for reading others'. My bedside is piled with books, but it's duty reading: books for book research, books for review. The ones I pine for are off on a shelf downstairs.
Mary Roach
#21. All of this wisdom belongs to us. It doesn't belong to experts or professional scholars or people who spend their days reading books. It belongs to any one of us who is willing to go out and get it.
Eric Greitens
#22. I wondered if there was a way to teach people how to use their imaginations in prayer and worship. So I began reading books on cognitive therapy and neuroscience and started studying the devotional traditions of the church.
Gregory A. Boyd
#23. Women will never stop reading books when they can relate to characters and gain insight into their own lives.
Sarah Jo Smith
#24. Reading books about gardens is a potent pastime; books nourish a gardener's mind in the same way as manure nourishes plants.
Mirabel Osler
#25. I am a crazy online shopper. My husband always jokes, 'Another box arrived!' Airplanes used to be my sanctuary for reading books, but now I have to peruse Gilt sales.
Lisa Ling
#26. I thought of all the summer evenings I'd spent sitting in the chairs under the trees beside the trailer, reading books that helped me escape Creek View, at least for a little while. Magical kingdoms, Russian love triangles, and the March sisters couldn't have been further away from the trailer park.
Heather Demetrios
#27. I imagine he knows magic, if he is reading books. The book itself doesn't matter. It's that he found another world in it.
Rene Denfeld
#28. My creative process involves reading books and magazines, writing outside, and moving around a lot. I like to pace around when I'm writing songs.
Judith Hill
#29. My books don't sell anymore. There are many reasons why they don't sell, but one of the reasons is because people don't read anymore. Forget about reading books of detail - they don't read at all.
Norman Finkelstein
#31. Um, yeah. I guess lying around reading books all day doesn't do much for physical endurance.
Amy Plum
#32. I was not a comic book reader, but my son is. My son wasn't really interested in reading books, which was hard for me because I love to read. It just didn't come naturally to my boy. So we kind of found comic books because they were fascinating to him. They were great stories.
Virginia Madsen
#33. I was a lonely boy. I spent all my time reading books and watching the world. [some] tried to draw me out at first, but their hearts weren't in it. And after all, they had enough troubles of their own.
Rabih Alameddine
#34. Writing poetry and reading books causes brain damage.
Pat Conroy
#35. There's darkness in this world you can't learn about by watching TV and reading books.
Dennis Lehane
#36. You're wasting your time," he said. "You don't learn how to discover things by reading books on it. And psychology is a bunch of bullshit.
Leonard Mlodinow
#37. Those of us who are blamed when old for reading childish books were blamed when children for reading books too old for us.
C.S. Lewis
#38. Life without fun is boring ,so enjoy your life by reading books.
Myself
#39. Colleges should offer lots of optional life-enriching experiences, like intramural basketball and a place to sunbathe. But reading books, like basketball or sunbathing, is a leisure activity, neither more nor less admirable than any other, and colleges should not pretend otherwise.
Steven E. Landsburg
#40. It's tricky turning a book into a movie. Sometimes people love the book so much that no adaptation lives up to what they imagined. You can avoid that disappointment by never, ever reading books.
Craig Ferguson
#41. I was always able to lose myself in reading. Books were a necessary escape I always gladly jumped into headfirst.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#42. Reading books in one's youth is like looking at the moon through a crevice; reading books in middle age is like looking at the moon in one's courtyard; and reading books in old age is like looking at the moon on an open terrace.
Lin Yutang
#43. The Need to Read
"Reading books remains one of the best ways to engage with the world, become a better person and understand life's questions, big and small.
Will Schwalbe
#44. The road of life's twists and turns give wisdom; reading books and schooling give you knowledge.
Debasish Mridha
#45. I'm a fastidious bookman and have never liked reading books with library markings or other messy defects.
Larry McMurtry
#46. When it comes down to helping kids, a lot of ways for education to move forward is through music because that's exciting to kids. Reading books and going to a bookstore is not that exciting.
Diplo
#47. Don't DIE by
reading BOOKS
Something's out there
in the world to be
a part of
LIFE . . .!
Sarvesh
#48. In 1969, we emigrated to Australia. It was a big change. The heat, the flies, and the completely different tinned meats. The shock was so great, I stopped reading books for nearly a year.
Morris Gleitzman
#49. The chief knowledge that a man gets from reading books is the knowledge that very few of them are worth reading.
H.L. Mencken
#50. I'm obsessed with TV. How wrong our parents were when they said we should only watch an hour a day. Stop wasting your time reading books.
Jimmy Carr
#51. I remember that already as a child I was often intensely interested in things, obsessed by ideas and projects in many areas, and in these topics I learned much on my own, reading books.
Christiane Nusslein-Volhard
#53. Reading books everyone died, none became any wise.
One who reads the word of Love, only becomes wise.
Kabir
#54. I love reading books, I love the way they feel and getting through it. It's like an event!
Kate Nash
#55. Nothing ensures the success of the child more in the society than being read to from infancy to young adulthood. Reading books to and with children is the single most important thing a parent, grandparent, or significant adult can do.
Anita Silvey
#56. In the 1970s and early '80s, Shanghai was quiet, cautious, a ghost of a once-great city - and yet physically, little was changed from its glittering heyday. When visiting, I enjoyed reading books on local history and used my time off to scope out the former haunts of gangsters and jazzmen.
Nicole Mones
#57. A singing goat is like reading books, I love goats and dinosaurs.-Albert Einstein
Andrew Clements
#58. I have always loved reading books for children and young adults, particularly when those books are mysteries.
Eleanor Catton
#59. Book clubs, both online and in person, have become a large percentage of the reading public, and many of them won't consider reading books in hardcover.
Christina Baker Kline
#60. While writing a novel I almost completely stop reading books in the same sub-genre for the duration.
Charles Stross
#61. When I was nine I spent a lot of my time reading books about the history of comedy, or listening to the Goons or Hancock, humour from previous generations.
Paul Merton
#63. Like most-maybe all- writers, I learned to write by writing and, by example, by reading books.
Francine Prose
#64. There's always an anxiety about playing literary characters because one of the great joys of reading books is that you can create your own vision of things.
Stephen Mangan
#65. this art wasn't exactly a novelty for him, and he shyly observed that, having nowhere to go and nothing to do, nor friends to visit, nor any interest in reading books, he usually spent his nights at home, in his rented room, likewise writing.
Anonymous
#66. Reading books is a way for you to communicate with and learn from the best thinkers that are writing today and that have ever lived.
Joshua Rogers
#67. I want to be with my wife. Sitting on a deckchair, sipping some tea, and reading books in a retirement home, in a beautiful and warm place. I'm a romantic guy.
Robert Pattinson
#68. My behavior is nonetheless, deplorable. Unfortunately, I'm quite prone to such bouts of deplorability
take for instance, my fondness for reading books at the dinner table.
Brandon Sanderson
#69. I've given up reading books. I find it takes my mind off myself.
Oscar Levant
#70. Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various facets of them.
Lord Chesterfield
#71. OKAY. So I was going to the library every Saturday. So what? So what? It's not like I was reading books or anything.
Gary D. Schmidt
#72. For me, reading books and writing them are tied together. The words of other writers teach me and refresh me and inspire me.
Betsy Byars
#73. Taking trains and trams in Berlin, I noticed people reading. Books, I mean - not pocket-size devices that bleep as if censorious, on which even Shakespeare scans like a spreadsheet.
Joshua Cohen
#74. They say she was once a grand lady and lived on the hill. But she took to reading books and went from bad to worse. Stuffed her head full of ideas, and now she's a bit addled.
Helen Deutsch
#76. It's funny that I got to do 'On the Road' because the thing that had the biggest impact on me growing up was reading books. I was very inspired by the book and this spirit of Dean Moriarty and how envious we all are of somebody who can be that carefree.
Garrett Hedlund
#77. My regular life today is reading books, making dolls houses, sewing dolls with my daughter and barbequing.
Milla Jovovich
#78. We are not reading books merely to check off a list or to be able to say we have read them. We are reading to grow as persons, to know more that we may understand more, and ultimately, it is to be hoped, to act according to our greater wisdom.
Karen Glass
#79. I was born in Japan and raised in Japan, but those are the only things that make me Japanese, I've grown up reading books from all over.
Hideo Kojima
#80. Remember that just because major publishing is having trouble, that doesn't mean people have stopped reading books. Printed books won't go away, but ebooks won't go away, either.
David Morrell
#81. Long ago, I stopped buying- let alone reading, books that talk about organizational success but fail to emphasize the importance of TRUST
Assegid Habtewold
#82. Reading books about enlightenment does not make you enlightened at all. You have to meditate yourself.
Frederick Lenz
#83. No matter how much time you spend reading books or following your intuition, you're gonna screw it up. Fifty times. You can't do parenting right.
Alan Arkin
#84. Of all the characters I've played, I relate the most to Isabel in Hugo. She's so adventurous and fun. She just loves reading books and those are her adventures. Isabel is a heightened version of my personality.
Chloe Grace Moretz
#85. You can't just be reading books all the time and leave the writting of them to others.
Joseph Delaney
#86. I'm not really one for reading books. I have a very poor attention span. I'd rather listen to music, play games or watch films on my iPad.
Olly Murs
#87. Maxims and aphorisms, let us remember that wisdom is the true salt of literature, and the books that are most nourishing are richly stored with it, and that is the main object to seek in reading books.
John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley Of Blackburn
#88. Think of me, the uneducated child reading books in my room at 22 Hyde Park Gate
now advanced to this glory ... Yes; all that reading, I say, has borne this odd fruit. And I am pleased.
Virginia Woolf
#89. You sometimes feel that reading books is the only way you can think, as if the reading occupied one part of your brain and this allowed the other part to go free and become more active. You need that time to read in order to think. That's all there is to it.
Yannick Murphy
#90. You can learn investing by reading books.
Bill Ackman
#91. My history writing was based on what I saw in strange, exotic places rather than just reading books.
Tony Judt
#92. I'll be reading books until the next challenger arrives. That will calm my nerves, so that I may deal with all situations without panicking.
Lucian
#93. I finished all the math books by third grade and most of the reading books. So I was considered disruptive.
Tyrone Hayes
#94. Computers allow us to squeeze the most out of everything, whether it's Google looking up things, so I guess that tends to make us a little lazy about reading books and doing things the hard way to understand how those things work.
Buzz Aldrin
#95. I went to something like six different schools before the age of 12, so I was always the new girl and had to make friends quickly. It was difficult at the start because I was very bookish - I was literally sat in the corner reading books, with no friends.
Isla Fisher
#96. Though I enjoy the occasional eBook from time to time, I will only stop reading books printed on paper when they pry them from my cold, dead, withered hands, and even then, they will be hard pressed to take them from me.
H.L. Stephens
#98. Cambridge was a joy. Tediously. People reading books in a posh place. It was my fantasy. I loved it. I miss it still.
Zadie Smith
#99. All I really want to do is spend my life traveling the world, reading books that take my breath away, drinking all kinds of tea and occasionally write something. I mean is that too much to ask for?
Anonymous
#100. Accolades and lists may tell us about accomplishments, but life is meant to be experienced, not just accomplished. It's like the difference between reading books for the sake of reading and reading books just to get a good grade.
LZ Granderson
