Reading

We read to know we're not alone.
― William Nicholson, Shadowlands

A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish

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, The Fault in Our Stars

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
― Oscar Wilde

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
― Groucho Marx

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

It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.
― Oscar Wilde

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.
― Dr. Seuss, I Can Read With My Eyes Shut!

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. That doesn't happen much, though.
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back.
― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

'Classic' - a book which people praise and don't read.
― Mark Twain

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, Pride and Prejudice

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
― Oscar Wilde

A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.
― William Styron, Conversations with William Styron

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.
― Charles William Eliot

Books are a uniquely portable magic.
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.
― C.S. Lewis

If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.
― Stephen King

Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.
― Gustave Flaubert

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
― Ray Bradbury

Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.
― Francis Bacon

You get a little moody sometimes but I think that's because you like to read. People that like to read are always a little fucked up.
― Pat Conroy, The Prince of Tides

Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.
― Voltaire

Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.
― Jane Smiley, Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.
― Joseph Brodsky

Think before you speak. Read before you think.
― Frances Ann Lebowitz, The Fran Lebowitz Reader

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, The Brooklyn Follies