Reading Quotes

“I started out reading as an escape, then a chore, then a habit, then a luxury. Only now I've realised what a necessity it is.”
― Phoebe Waller-Bridge

“If you find it interesting enough to write, someone will find it interesting enough to read.”
― Carmela Dutra

“Just because you read books doesn't mean you know everything," Faiz tells her. "I work. Life's the best teacher. Everyone says so."

"Only people who can't read say such things," Pari says.”
― Deepa Anappara, Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line

“Reading together is an activity least talked about, but once you flip pages together, you flip many moments together.”
― Akansh Malik, Your's Truly, Forever!

“Three hours later, the book finished, her cheeks a little pink because it was so sad and lovely and sad again, Nina stood up and stretched. Coming out of a book was always painful. She was surprised to see things had remained in place while she herself had been roaming other towns, other times.”
― Abbi Waxman, The Bookish Life of Nina Hill

“Education teaches us how to make a living, not how to live.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, P for Pessimism: A Collection of Funny yet Profound Aphorisms

“To see love and sacrifice, stand before a bookshelf. To feel love and sacrifice, pick a book and open it. To love and sacrifice, add one.”
― Karl Kristian Flores, The Goodbye Song

“Who taught you to swear first? Who burst your head wide open with a sentence? Whose linguistic tics have you ingested, do you know, bust out without thinking”
― Ander Monson, Letter to a Future Lover: Marginalia, Errata, Secrets, Inscriptions, and Other Ephemera Found in Libraries

“Worries genius or happy simpleton? The moment you get caught with the reading bug and learning, you get addicted to it, and you have to know that your mind is going to process stuff and the debate starts happening [in the head] and it’s forever— it never stops. You lose a little bit of happiness when you get too interested in wanting to get certain questions answered in life because it’s never going to end. If you choose to subscribe to wanting to be a lifelong learner you must be ready to lose some happiness and freedom that you once had when you didn’t know everything.”
― Patrick Bet-David

“Worried genius or happy simpleton? The moment you get caught with the reading bug and learning, you get addicted to it, and you have to know that your mind is going to process stuff and the debate starts happening [in the head] and it’s forever— it never stops. You lose a little bit of happiness when you get too interested in wanting to get certain questions answered in life because it’s never going to end. If you choose to subscribe to wanting to be a lifelong learner you must be ready to lose some happiness and freedom that you once had when you didn’t know everything.”
― Patrick Bet-David

“Shakespeare could do anything with words. You are not more intelligent than he--so don't try to fix his writing. Try to understand it. If the language is clumsy or contradictory--consider why? Every word was deliberately chosen. Trust me.”
― Ethan Hawke

“However vast any person’s basic reading may be, there still remain an enormous number of fundamental works that he has not read.”
― Italo Calvino

“Free your mind and your ass will follow”
― Funkadelic

“He began reading her eyes more deeply and passionately than the books in the library.”
― Avijeet Das

“Even people who can't read are impressed by books.”
― Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Talents

“If you read a novel to the end, then it’s over. I would never want to do something as wasteful as that. I’d much rather keep it here with me, safe and sound forever.”
― Koko Ogawa

“I sometimes think that good readers are poets as singular, and as awesome, as great authors them-selves.”
― Buenos Aires - JLB

“Behind every great line is a mirror - reflecting the reader, only meant to agree with him.”
― Laura Chouette

“Reading is wise man's source of wisdom.”
― Lokesh kaushik

“I tell my first-year law students that they will be learning how to read. "Huh? We've known how to read since we were six!" Sure, that's true, in the sense that students come to law school knowing cognitively how to translate black-and-white marks on a page into words. But what I mean by read is different. It requires you to isolate phrases, then individual words, and then figure out as many interpretations of those words as possible. Once you have the various options on the table, you can start to prioritize the options and choose which is best---or at least how to argue for one over the other on behalf of a client. This is a skill, and one that is becoming increasingly rare in a world of information overload, texts, tweets, and sound bites.”
― Kim Wehle, How to Read the Constitution - and Why

“I consider reading a book a sacred indulgence.”
― Oprah Winfrey, The Wisdom of Sundays: Life-Changing Insights from Super Soul Conversations

“I read to live, I write to share their life.”
― Jessie Winterspring

“Every man is where he is by the law of his being; the thoughts which he has
built into his character have brought him there, and in the arrangement of his life
there is no element of chance, but all is the result of a law which cannot err. This
is just as true of those who feel "out of harmony" with their surroundings as of
those who are contented with them.
As the progressive and evolving being, man is where he is that he may learn
that he may grow; and as he learns the spiritual lesson which any circumstance
contains for him, it passes away and gives place to other circumstances.
Man is buffeted by circumstances so long as he believes himself to be the
creature of outside conditions, but when he realizes that he is a creative power,
and that he may command the hidden soil and seeds of his being out of which
circumstances grow, he then becomes the rightful master of himself.
That circumstances grow out of thought every man knows who has for any
length of time practiced self-control and self-purification, for he will have noticed
that the alteration in his circumstances has been in exact ratio with his altered
mental condition. So true is this that when a man earnestly applies himself to
remedy the defects in his character, and makes swift and marked progress, he
passes rapidly through a succession of vicissitudes.
The soul attracts that which it secretly harbors; that which it loves, and
also that which it fears; it reaches the height of its cherished
aspirations; it falls to the level of its unchastened desires; and
circumstances are the means by which the soul receives its own.”
― James Allen

“Just as a gardener
cultivates his plot,
keeping it free from
weeds, and growing
the flowers and
fruits which he
requires, so may a
man tend the
garden of his mind.”
― James Allen

“God is very aware and very active in your life and He will make sure to give you all that you need. The answer to your prayers may not come today. It may not come tomorrow. God is setting things up in your favor.
You are His child!
God is on your side!”
― sunshine rodgers , God The Father Jesus The Big Brother Holy Spirit The Best Friend

“Do you know the best feeling in the world?"
"Uh..." Nina shook her head, despite having some ideas.
Liz glowed. "It's reading a book, loving every second of it, then turning to the front and discovering that the writer wrote fourteen zillion others.”
― Abbi Waxman, The Bookish Life of Nina Hill

“Mens vi leser, holder vi sidene ganske stille, og det ser ut som om vi sitter og flyr. Og det gjør vi, hver gang vi leser. Vi flyr.”
― Geir Gulliksen, Ung trost klokken fem om morgenen i en brusende alm. Et dikt fra januar til september

“All books over five hundred pages that weren’t written by Dickens or a dead Russian are better left on the shelf.”
― William Blundell

“All reading is interpretation, every reading reveals and is dependent on the circumstances of its reader.”
― Alberto Manguel, La cité des mots: CBC Massey Lectures

“Not every day is a writing day!
Sometimes all you need is to grab a comfortable corner, have a cup of coffee, read some good writers, and unravel their words with your stories”
― Sakshi Mishra