Reading Quotes - Page 15

When I discovered libraries, it was like having Christmas every day.

And if our book consumption remains as low as it has been, at least let us admit that it is because reading is a less exciting pastime than going to the dogs, the pictures or the pub, and not because books, whether bought or borrowed, are too expensive.

Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.

The importance of reading, for me, is that it allows you to dream.

Reading poetry is an adventure in renewal, a creative act, a perpetual beginning, a rebirth of wonder.

Reading and sauntering and lounging and dosing, which I call thinking, is my supreme Happiness.

Time spent reading, like time spent loving, increases our lifetime.

reading a good book in silence is like eating chocolate for the rest of your life and never getting fat.

And when I was young, did I ever tell you, I always wanted to get inside a book and never come out again? I loved reading so much I wanted to be a part of it, and there were some books I could have stayed in for ever.

I remember reading these articles when I was younger, and I just felt like, well, in order to look like that, you have to have some secret, magical unicorn blood that makes carbs disappear as they go into your body. I prefer the truth.

The most radical, audacious thing to think is that there might be some point to working hard and thinking hard and reading hard and writing hard and trying to be of service

Reading is the way mankind delays the inevitable. Reading is the way we shake our fist at the sky. As long as we have these epic, improbable reading projects arrayed before us, we cannot breathe our last: Tell the Angel of Death to come back later; I haven't quite finished Villette.

If you've got short, stubby fingers and wear reading glasses, any relaxation you would normally derive from fly fishing is completely eliminated when you try to tie on a fly.

When you look at a city, it's like reading the hopes, aspirations and pride of everyone who built it.

Reading is entering into the consciousness of another human being.

Like most-maybe all- writers, I learned to write by writing and, by example, by reading books.

I never feel lonely if I've got a book - they're like old friends. Even if you're not reading them over and over again, you know they are there. And they're part of your history. They sort of tell a story about your journey through life.

We are not telling Tudor history; we are creating ' Wolf Hall ' from novels, which are already a rereading of Tudor history.

If I'm honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all.

My perfect morning is spent drinking coffee, eating porridge and reading the paper at a local cafe.

You should write because you love the shape of stories and sentences and the creation of different words on a page. Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write.

A great library is one nobody notices because it is always there, and always has what people need.

Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter. But I should mean that every man should receive those papers and be capable of reading them.

It often requires more courage to read some books than it does to fight a battle.

Babies are born with the instinct to speak, the way spiders are born with the instinct to spin webs. You don't need to train babies to speak; they just do. But reading is different.