Reading Quotes

The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.

George Orwell

Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading, an easy prey to sensations and cheap appeals.

G. M. Trevelyan

In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ultimately, it doesn't matter if the author intended a symbol to be there, because the job of reading is not to understand the authors intend. The job of reading is to see into other people as we see ourselves.

John Green

If the book is good, is about something that you know, and is truly written, and reading it over you see that this is so, you can let the boys yip and the noise will have that pleasant sound coyotes make on a very cold night when they are out in the snow and you are in your own cabin that you have built or paid for with your work.

Ernest Hemingway

You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.

C.S. Lewis

No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor is any pleasure so lasting.

Mary Wortley Montagu

What's a book? Everything or nothing. The eye that sees it all.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Once we have learned to read, meaning of words can somehow register without consciousness.

Anthony Marcel

What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.

Wendell Phillips

Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time.

Edwin P. Whipple

The world of books is the most remarkable creation of man nothing else that he builds ever lasts monuments fall; nations perish; civilization grow old and die out; new races build others. But in the world of books are volumes that have seen this happen again and again and yet live on. Still young, still as fresh as the day they were written, still telling men's hearts, of the hearts of men centuries dead.

Clarence Day

I heard his library burned down and both books were destroyed -- and one of them hadn't even been colored in yet.

John Dawkins

The man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and of elevated opinions.

Christopher Dawson

The words of my book nothing, the drift of it everything.

Walt Whitman

Camerado! This is no book; who touches this touches a man.

Walt Whitman

You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here.

Spike Lee

I hope and hoping feeds my pain I weep and weeping feeds my failing heartI laugh but the laughter does not pass withinI burn but the burning makes no mark outside

Niccolo Machiavelli, Machiavelli

Reading at meals is considered rude in polite society, but if you expect to succeed as a writer, rudeness should be the second-to-least of your concerns. The least of all should be polite society and what it expects.

Stephen King

Reading a good book helps us to feel un-alone.

John Green