Reading Quotes

"A room without books is like a body without a soul" "So many books, so little time" "I feel like I'm too busy writing history to read it." "A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us" "People forget about books. They're always just turning on the television, but reading a good book is the most nourishing thing you can do." "When you read a novel, your own imagery is formed" "The art of reading is to skip judiciously" "You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read" "Of all things, I liked books best." "It is with the reading of books the same as with looking at pictures; one must, without doubt, without hesitations, with assurance, admire what is beautiful." "I am a part of everything that I have read." "You cannot open a book without learning something." "I am reading six books at once, the only way of reading; since, as you will agree, one book is only a single unaccompanied note, and to get the full sound, one needs ten others at the same time." "Let us read and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world" "The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid" "I am not a fan of books. I would never want a book's autograph." "I must say that I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book." "I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book." "A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking." "In my whole life, I have known no wise people who didn't read all the time—none, zero"