“A mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.”— George R.R. Martin, amazon.comTagged: Books, Reading, Intelligence, Brain
“Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.”— Fernando Pessoa, amazon.comTagged: Literature, Books, Reading, Life
“The best moments in reading are when you come across something – a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things – which you had thought special and particular to you. Now here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has co…”— Alan Bennett, amazon.comTagged: Reading, Books, Thoughts, Feelings
“If one reads enough books one has a fighting chance. Or better, one’s chances of survival increase with each book one reads.”— Sherman Alexie, books.google.comTagged: Reading, Books, Survival
“Books became her friends and there was one for every mood. There was poetry for quiet companionship. There was adventure when she tired of quiet hours. There would be love stories when she came into adolescence and when she wanted to feel a closeness to someone she could read a biography. On that da…”— Betty Smith, amazon.comTagged: Books, Reading, Poetry, Adventure
“Peeing is like a good book in that it is very, very hard to stop once you start.”— John Green, amazon.comTagged: Books, Reading, peeing
“What a blessing it is to love books as I love them, to be able to converse with the dead, and to live amidst the unreal!”— Thomas Babington Macaulay, amazon.comTagged: Reading, Books, dead, Unreal
“Reading is everything. Reading makes me feel like I've accomplished something, learned something, become a better person. Reading makes me smarter. Reading gives me something to talk about later on. Reading is the unbelievably healthy way my attention deficit disorder medicates itself. Reading is es…”— Nora Ephron, amazon.comTagged: Reading, Books, Escape, Reality
“Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.”— John Green, amazon.comTagged: Reading, Books, Peace
“Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”— Lemony Snicket, amazon.comTagged: Books, Reading, Trust
“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.”— Dr. Seuss, amazon.comTagged: Reading, Books, Learning, Success
“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.”— Jane Austen, amazon.comTagged: Reading, Books, Libraries, Happiness
“A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.”— William Styron, amazon.comTagged: Reading, Books, Living, Life
“I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.”— Harper Lee, amazon.comTagged: Reading, Living, Books
“Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.”— Cassandra Clare, amazon.comTagged: Reading, Literature, Poetry, Books, influence
“I spent my life folded between the pages of books. In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters.”— Tahereh Mafi, amazon.comTagged: Books, Reading, Relationships, characters
“Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.”— Jane Smiley, amazon.comTagged: Reading, Books, Happiness
“Reading was my escape and my comfort, my consolation, my stimulant of choice: reading for the pure pleasure of it, for the beautiful stillness that surrounds you when you hear an author's words reverberating in your head.”— Paul Auster, amazon.comTagged: Reading, Books, Escape, calming
“Reading one book is like eating one potato chip.”— Diane Duane, amazon.comTagged: Reading, Books, eating
“Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.”— Anna Quindlen, amazon.comTagged: Books, Reading, Journey, destination, Home
“'Isn't it odd how much fatter a book gets when you've read it several times?' Mo had said. 'As if something were left between the pages every time you read it. Feelings, thoughts, sounds, smells. And then, when you look at the book again many years later, you find yourself there, too, a slightly you…”— Cornelia Funke, amazon.comTagged: Books, Thoughts, Ideas, Reading
“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it.”— J.D. Salinger, amazon.comTagged: Books, Reading, author, Friendship
“People that like to read are always a little fucked up.”— Pat Conroy, amazon.comTagged: Reading, fucked up, Books
“I love books, by the way, way more than movies. Movies tell you what to think. A good book lets you choose a few thoughts for yourself. Movies show you the pink house. A good book tells you there's a pink house and lets you paint some of the finishing touches, maybe choose the roof style, park your…”— Karen Marie Moning, amazon.comTagged: Reading, Books, Movies
“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”— Jane Austen, amazon.comTagged: Books, Reading, stupidity
“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”— Neil Gaiman, amazon.comTagged: fairy tales, Reading, Books, Success, Hero
“Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life.”— Stephen King, books.google.comTagged: Reading, Books, Entertainment
“It's not that I don't like people. It's just that when I'm in the company of others - even my nearest and dearest - there always comes a moment when I'd rather be reading a book.”— Maureen Corrigan, amazon.comTagged: Books, Reading, social life