Reading Quotes - Page 20

My reading list grows exponentially. Every time I read a book, it'll mention three other books I feel I have to read. It's like a particularly relentless series of pop-up ads.

I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.

Let's be reasonable and add an eighth day to the week that is devoted exclusively to reading.

It was amazing how many books one could fit into a room, assuming one didn't want to move around very much.

I read the fuck out of every book I can get my hands on.

You know how it is when you're reading a book and falling asleep, you're reading, reading... and all of a sudden you notice your eyes are closed? I'm like that all the time.

The problem with a life spent reading is you know too much.

To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.

My life is a reading list.

Books can be dangerous. The best ones should be labeled "This could change your life.

Some say life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

What kind of life can you have in a house without books?

I read in self-defense.

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

I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.

Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you.

Maybe this is why we read, and why in moments of darkness we return to books: to find words for what we already know.

Books didn’t make me wallow in darkness, darkness made me wallow in books.

A book series is never truly over. The story lives on, even when the final page has been turned.

Sit in a room and read-and read and read. And read the right books by the right people. Your mind is brought onto that level, and you have a nice, mild, slow-burning rapture all the time.