Quotes About Reading

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There are two motives for reading a book: one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.

Bertrand Russell

If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire ever can warm me I know *that* is poetry. If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know *that* is poetry.

Emily Dickinson

...eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably. Of course not all books are suitable for mealtime reading. It would be a kind of blasphemy to read poetry at table.

C. S. Lewis

Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.

Anna Quindlen

She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain.

Louisa May Alcott

I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in life. And I am horribly limited.

Sylvia Plath

Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.

Lemony Snicket

People always think that happiness is a faraway thing,” thought Francie, “something complicated and hard to get. Yet, what little things can make it up; a place of shelter when it rains - a cup of strong hot coffee when you're blue; for a man, a cigarette for contentment; a book to read when you're alone - just to be with someone you love. Those things make happiness.

Betty Smith

It's easier to quote poets than to read them.

Allison Barrows

Reading is like the sex act - done privately, and often in bed

Daniel J. Boorstin