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Book Reading Quotes (page 24)

It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else. John Waters
As long as a man had the courage to reject what society told him to do, he could live life on his own terms. To what end? To be free. But free to what end? To read books, to write books, to think. Paul Auster
Trellis wants his salutary book to be read by all. He realizes that purely a moralizing tract would not reach the public. Therefore he is putting plenty of smut into his book. Flann O'Brien
A status symbol is a book. A very easy book to read is The Catcher in the Rye. Walk around with that under your arm, kids. That is status. Vivienne Westwood
In reading we must become creators. Once the child has learned to read alone, and can pick up a book without illustrations, he must become a creator, imagining the setting of the story, visualizing the characters, seeing facial expressions, hearing the inflection of voices. The author and the reader "know" each other; they meet on the bridge of words. Madeleine L'Engle
Franz Kafka quote: "If the book we are reading does not wake us, as with a fist..."
If the book we are reading does not wake us, as with a fist hammering on our skull, why then do we read it? Franz Kafka
It didn't occur to me that my books would be widely read at all, and that enabled me to write anything I wanted to. And even once I realized that they were being read, I still wrote as if I were writing in secret. That's how one has to write anyway--in secret. Louise Erdrich
The internet was supposed to liberate knowledge, but in fact it buried it, first under a vast sewer of ignorance, laziness, bigotry, superstition and filth and then beneath the cloak of political surveillance. Now...cyberspace exists exclusively to promote commerce, gossip and pornography. And of course to hunt down sedition. Only paper is safe. Books are the key. A book cannot be accessed from afar, you have to hold it, you have to read it. Ben Elton
Alice James quote: "What sense of superiority it gives one to escape reading some..."
What sense of superiority it gives one to escape reading some book which every one else is reading. Alice James
Give me a man or woman who has read a thousand books and you give me an interesting companion. Give me a man or woman who has read perhaps three and you give me a very dangerous enemy indeed. Anne Rice
Heinrich Heine quote: "I fell asleep reading a dull book, and I dreamed that I was..."
I fell asleep reading a dull book, and I dreamed that I was reading on, so I awoke from sheer boredom. Heinrich Heine
Joseph Joubert quote: "The great inconvenience of new books is that they prevent us..."
The great inconvenience of new books is that they prevent us from reading old books. Joseph Joubert
I don't want anyone writing in to point out that I spend too much money on books, many of which I will never read. I know that already. I certainly intend to read all of them, more or less. My intentions are good. Anyway, it's my money. And I'll bet you do it too. Nick Hornby
Suzanne Collins quote: "Her book series the Hunger Games is my new favorite book..."
Her book series the Hunger Games is my new favorite book series. So glad I read them. Katniss is such an amazing character! Suzanne Collins
The secret of a good librarian is that he never reads anything more of the literature in his charge than the title and the table of contents. Anyone who lets himself go and starts reading a book is lost as a librarian...He's bound to lose perspective. Robert Musil

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