Reading Quotes

“Reading is the act of listening and speaking at the same time, with someone you’ve never met, but love. Even if you hate them, it’s a loving thing to do. You speak someone else’s words to yourself, and hear them for the first time.”
― Daniel Nayeri, Everything Sad Is Untrue

“Winter is when I reorganise my bookshelves and read all the books I acquired in the previous year and failed to actually read. It is also the time when I reread beloved novels, for the pleasure of reacquainting myself with old friends. In summer, I want big, splashy ideas and trashy page-turners, devoured while lounging in a garden chair or perching on one of the breakwaters on the beach. In winter, I want concepts to chew over in a pool of lamplight—slow, spiritual reading, a reinforcement of the soul. Winter is a time for libraries, the muffled quiet of bookstacks and the scent of old pages and dust. In winter, I can spend hours in silent pursuit of a half-understood concept or a detail of history. There is nowhere else to be, after all.”
― Katherine May, Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times

“Mostly I read at this hour, perusing the pile of books that live by my favourite chair, waiting to offer up fragments of learning, rather than inviting cover-to-cover pursuits. I browse a chapter here, a segment there, or hunt through an index for a matter that’s on my mind. I love such loose, exploratory reading. For once, I am not reading to escape; instead, having already made my getaway, I am able to roam through the extra space I’ve found, as restless and impatient as I like, revelling in the play of my own absorption. They say that we should dance like no one is watching. I think that applies to reading, too.”
― Katherine May, Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times

“I do believe literature holds the best of us . . . or perhaps it reflects the better versions of who we are.”
― Caroline George, Dearest Josephine

“A book is but a stack of paper until someone reads it. And when someone reads it, they build a house within its pages so whenever they return to that book, they feel right at home.”
― Caroline George, Dearest Josephine

“And the truth is, Henry loves the store. Loves the smell of books, and the steady weight of them on shelves, the presence of old titles and the arrival of new ones and the fact that in a city like New York, there will always be readers.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

“When I feel a bit blue, there is always a book to pull from a shelf to take me somewhere else long enough to let the stormy weather in my mind subside. I feel very fortunate that I have discovered such an outlet for my happiness.”
― Jeffrey Keeten

“Sometimes the experience of reading can be corrupted by too many opinions.”
― Jeanine Cummins, American Dirt

“We shouldn't be afraid of the obvious, because stories are about life, and life is full of obvious things like food and sleep and love and courage which you don't stop needing just because you're a good reader.”
― Philip Pullman, Dæmon Voices

“Books are lives of those who will never live, and I as the reader am their chance to become closer to reality,”
― Evangeline S.

“Reading a novel, he supposes, is like playing a game where all the choices have been made for you ahead of time by someone who is much better at this particular game. (Though he sometimes wishes choose-your-own-adventure novels would come back into fashion.)”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Starless Sea

“I, on the other hand, spent those days lost in my reading. I sat in front of the fire sometimes with my husband, and sometimes alone. I forgot where I was, so forceful were the settings and characters in those books I read, so fine and deep. Yet when I came to, it wasn't unpleasant. In fact, it pleased me very much.”
― Amina Cain, Indelicacy

“We take from books what we bring to them.”
― Caroline George, Dearest Josephine

“Yes, I still believe a topsy-turvy posture boosts the absorption of literature.”
― Caroline George, Dearest Josephine

“Write to be understood, speak to be heard, Read to grow.”
― pranita deshpande

“Teachers lose credibility with students when they ignore the cultural trends & issues that interest them & instead design classroom reading instruction around books that are "good for you." There is a certain amount of disdain from teachers in regard to popular fiction for children because some of those books are mind candy, but I’d bet that some of those teachers go home & read escapist books like Shopaholic or a James Patterson thriller & never make a connection. Are we teaching books or teaching readers?”
― Donalyn Miller, The Book Whisperer: Awakening the Inner Reader in Every Child

“…but we all know that each reader reads a book that is different to the one written by the author, and that the reading is tainted by the memories, fears and traumas that are the true standard lamps by which the reader sits and reads.”
― Christoph Grafe, OASE 70: Architecture and Literature

“There is no limit to what you can read.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“The very best children's stories are enjoyed by adults.”
― Wayne Gerard Trotman

“In truth, Comte did not have much regard for literary culture. Chairs of literature and literary associations would be suppressed in the positivist era. He even seemed to discourage writing and reading anything after one's formal education was completed. A 'veritable positivist' - even a positivist priest - should reduce his library to one hundred volumes. Half of that library would be 'more historic than dogmatic' and thus would have 'little need to be reread.' People should read chiefly great poets pondering the human condition to enlarge their understanding. In the Catéchisme, he maintained that there were only thirteen great writers: Homer, Aeschylus, Dante, Ariosto, Tasso, Shakespeare, Caldéron, Corneille, Milton, Molière, Thomas à Kempis, Cervantes, and Walter Scott. There were perhaps another seven writers worth reading. Almost all the works of the others could be destroyed as harmful to the heart and mind, although he did allow for some of these works to be preserved as historical documents. At one point, Comte went so far as to announce that 'all of human knowledge' could be condensed into ten volumes. Moral activity now was most important to him”
― Mary Pickering, Auguste Comte: An Intellectual Biography, Volume III

“Her father's books were not read in a normal way. Some of them were read with the hands. Some were read by placing them at the centre of the forehead. One of the books could only be read with eyes closed. Another one could only be read in dreams, while the reader was asleep, with the book under the pillow.

There was a very special book of her father's which could only be read by the dead. It was placed in their coffins, over the heart.

There was one book that was only read by drinking. Water was poured on its waterproof pages and the water was drunk. The words filled out in the blood and heart and brains, till the reader became the words.

There was another special book that was read in the wind. The book was left dangling, the wind blew its pages, and the reader, with the light on their face, read the words which the wind dispersed.”
― Ben Okri, The Freedom Artist

“The personal library is…the archive of a reading life. Or perhaps a mausoleum in which, though sealed away, one lives like nowhere else.”
― Burkhard Spinnen, The Book: An Homage

“She’d never known a book lover to grow up to cause trouble.”
― Jon Hassler, Dear James

“Now, the world is more than it seems to be. You know this, of course, because you read stories.”
― Anne Ursu, Breadcrumbs

“Because of ignorance, we often attribute to good genes—and therefore good luck—fruits of things such as exercise, reading, meditation, and fasting.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“I started to read The Best Christmas Pageant Ever aloud to Jarrod, reminding myself that sometimes the best you could do was help one kid.”
― Mary Hollowell, The Forgotten Room: Inside a Public Alternative School for At-Risk Youth

“From inside the thick of her grief, Lydia read. She read without lifting her eyes...only pausing when the ache in her shoulder or the pins and needles in her foot forced her to lift her eyes from the page, shift the pillows and turn the other way. Then her gaze would fall on the wallpaper with its pattern of roses and she would blink and wonder where in the world she was. Then, as she started to remember, thank God, there was the book, and she would slip under again, a sigh in her throat.”
― Fiona Shaw, Tell It to the Bees

“Books always leave a light on.”
― Caroline George, Dearest Josephine

“You must continue learning to increase in learning.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Motivational Reading removes our so many problems as like stress, anger, worries ,pressure also bringing out true potential of every person”
― pranita deshpande