Reading Quotes

Most popular reading quotes

The great thing is to be always reading but not to get bored—treat it not like work, more as a vice! Your book bill ought to be your biggest extravagance. - C. S. Lewis quote.
The great thing is to be always reading but not to get bored—treat it not like work, more as a vice! Your book bill ought to be your biggest extravagance.
Employ your time in improving yourself by other people's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for. - Socrates quote.
Employ your time in improving yourself by other people's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.
Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written. - Henry David Thoreau quote.
Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them. - Mark Twain quote.
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.
Choose an author as you choose a friend.

authors

Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life. - Mortimer Adler quote.
Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. - Joseph Addison quote.
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
Reading is seeing by proxy. - Herbert Spencer quote.
Reading is seeing by proxy.
Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad. - George Bernard Shaw quote.
Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad.
Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them all. - Henry David Thoreau quote.
Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them all.
No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting. - Lady Mary Montagu quote.
No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.
I divide all readers into two classes: Those who read to remember and those who read to forget.
The wise man reads both books and life itself. - Lin Yutang quote.
The wise man reads both books and life itself.

wisdom

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

books

Today a reader, tomorrow a leader. - Margaret Fuller quote.
Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.
It's been my experience in life, if you just keep thinking and reading, you don't have to work. - Charlie Munger quote.
It's been my experience in life, if you just keep thinking and reading, you don't have to work.

how to live life

Look at this generation, with all of its electronic devices and multitasking. I will confidently predict less success than Warren, who just focused on reading. If you want wisdom, you'll get it sitting on your ass. That's the way it comes. - Charlie Munger quote.
Look at this generation, with all of its electronic devices and multitasking. I will confidently predict less success than Warren, who just focused on reading. If you want wisdom, you'll get it sitting on your ass. That's the way it comes.
I know no wise person who doesn't read a lot. - Charlie Munger quote.
I know no wise person who doesn't read a lot.

wisdom

"Classic." A book which people praise and don't read. - Mark Twain quote.
"Classic." A book which people praise and don't read.

classics funny

There was going to be a storm and it was a perfect night for rereading Jane Eyre. - Maya Angelou quote.
There was going to be a storm and it was a perfect night for rereading Jane Eyre.
No man can be called friendless when he has God and the companionship of good books. - Elizabeth Barrett Browning quote.
No man can be called friendless when he has God and the companionship of good books.

God friendship

Any kid who has two parents who are interested in him and has a houseful of books isn't poor. - Sam Levenson quote.
Any kid who has two parents who are interested in him and has a houseful of books isn't poor.

advisory parenting books

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. - John Locke quote.
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

critical thinking thinking

Books may well be the only true magic.

books

Reading makes immigrants of us all—it takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere.
There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we believe we left without having lived them: those we spent with a favorite book. - Marcel Proust quote.
There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we believe we left without having lived them: those we spent with a favorite book.
From your parents you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot before the other. But when books are opened you discover that you have wings. - Helen Hayes quote.
From your parents you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot before the other. But when books are opened you discover that you have wings.

books

If you would understand your own age, read the works of fiction produced in it. People in disguise speak freely.

fiction

Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting. - Aldous Huxley quote.
Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.
Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures. - Jessamyn West quote.
Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.

fiction

Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting. - Edmund Burke quote.
Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

thinking

I would rather be a poor man in a garret with plenty of books than a king who did not love reading. - Lord Macaulay quote.
I would rather be a poor man in a garret with plenty of books than a king who did not love reading.
The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history. - Carl Rowan quote.
The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history.

libraries learning

The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking. - Christopher Morley quote.
The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking.

critical thinking books

A book, tight shut, is but a block of paper.
— Chinese proverb

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A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight. - Robertson Davies quote.
A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.

classics books re-reading

"Tell me what you read and I'll tell you who you are" is true enough, but I'd know you better if you told me what you reread. - François Mauriac quote.
"Tell me what you read and I'll tell you who you are" is true enough, but I'd know you better if you told me what you reread.

re-reading

When something can be read without effort, great effort has gone into its writing.

writing books

Let us read and let us dance—two amusements that will never do any harm to the world. - Voltaire quote.
Let us read and let us dance—two amusements that will never do any harm to the world.

dancing

October is crisp days and cool nights, a time to curl up around the dancing flames and sink into a good book.
John Sinor in Union-Tribune (San Diego, California)
Do not read as children do to enjoy themselves, or, as the ambitious do to educate themselves. No, read to live. - Gustave Flaubert quote.
Do not read as children do to enjoy themselves, or, as the ambitious do to educate themselves. No, read to live.
Do not read so much, look about you and think of what you see there. - Richard Feynman quote.
Do not read so much, look about you and think of what you see there.
People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading. - Logan Pearsall Smith quote.
People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.
Language is the soul of intellect, and reading is the essential process by which that intellect is cultivated beyond the commonplace experiences of everyday life.

language

Men of power have not time to read; yet men who do not read are unfit for power.
When I am not walking, I am reading, I cannot sit and think. Books think for me. - Charles Lamb quote.
When I am not walking, I am reading, I cannot sit and think. Books think for me.
Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing. - Harper Lee quote.
Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.
Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought.
Reading is thinking with someone else's head instead of one's own. - Arthur Schopenhauer quote.
Reading is thinking with someone else's head instead of one's own.
A book that is shut is but a block. - Thomas Fuller quote.
A book that is shut is but a block.
How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book. - Henry David Thoreau quote.
How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.

books

Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

writing

Don't ask who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading all my life.

poets

The use of our reading is to aid us in thinking.  The perusal of a particular work gives birth, perhaps, to ideas unconnected with the subject of which it treats. - Edward Gibbon quote.
The use of our reading is to aid us in thinking.  The perusal of a particular work gives birth, perhaps, to ideas unconnected with the subject of which it treats.
Edward Gibbon The Miscellaneous Works of Edward Gibbon, Esq.
To read good books is like holding a conversation with the most eminent minds of past centuries and, moreover, a studied conversation in which these authors reveal to us only the best of their thoughts. - René Descartes quote.
To read good books is like holding a conversation with the most eminent minds of past centuries and, moreover, a studied conversation in which these authors reveal to us only the best of their thoughts.

books

If a book read when young is a lover, that same book, reread later on, is a friend. - Anne Fadiman quote.
If a book read when young is a lover, that same book, reread later on, is a friend.
Anne Fadiman Rereadings: Seventeen Writers Revisit Books They Love

books re-reading

There are times in one's life when a good book—the right book—feels like a voice speaking in the darkness, or a hand reaching out from the past; providing solace when all else seems lost.

books

In a sense, one can never read the book that the author originally wrote, and one can never read the same book twice. - Edmund Wilson quote.
In a sense, one can never read the book that the author originally wrote, and one can never read the same book twice.
Edmund Wilson The Triple Thinkers: Twelve Essays on Literary Subjects

books

When you reread a classic you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than there was before. - Clifton Fadiman quote.
When you reread a classic you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than there was before.

re-reading classics

Once the disease of reading has laid hold upon the system it weakens it so that it falls an easy prey to that other scourge which dwells in the ink pot and festers in the quill. The wretch takes to writing. - Virginia Woolf quote.
Once the disease of reading has laid hold upon the system it weakens it so that it falls an easy prey to that other scourge which dwells in the ink pot and festers in the quill. The wretch takes to writing.

writing

The return to a favorite novel is generally tied up with changes in oneself that must be counted as improvements, but have the feel of losses. It is like going back to a favorite house, country, person; nothing is where it belongs, including one's heart. - Mary McCarthy quote.
The return to a favorite novel is generally tied up with changes in oneself that must be counted as improvements, but have the feel of losses. It is like going back to a favorite house, country, person; nothing is where it belongs, including one's heart.

novels re-reading

Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you, because it is, at least in my experience, the most healing of pleasures.

solitude pleasure

The right reader of a good poem can tell the moment it strikes him that he has taken an immortal wound—that he will never get over it. - Robert Frost quote.
The right reader of a good poem can tell the moment it strikes him that he has taken an immortal wound—that he will never get over it.

poetry

One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well. - A. Bronson Alcott quote.
One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well.

quotations

To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry. - Gaston Bachelard quote.
To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry.
A writer is a reader moved to emulation. - Saul Bellow quote.
A writer is a reader moved to emulation.
Saul Bellow Connections: A Rhetoric/Short Prose Reader

writers

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 come out and taken yours. - Alan Bennett quote.
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 come out and taken yours.
When we read a story, we inhabit it.  The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls. - John Berger quote.
When we read a story, we inhabit it.  The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls.
The sheer pleasure of time spent in a vivid elsewhere.
Sven Birkerts Rereadings: Seventeen Writers Revisit Books They Love
A conventional good read is usually a bad read, a relaxing bath in what we already know. - Malcolm Bradbury quote.
A conventional good read is usually a bad read, a relaxing bath in what we already know.
Reading is very important—read between the lines.  Don't swallow everything. - Gwendolyn Brooks quote.
Reading is very important—read between the lines.  Don't swallow everything.
To describe my scarce leisure time in today's terms, I always default to reading. - Jimmy Buffett quote.
To describe my scarce leisure time in today's terms, I always default to reading.
Reading without purpose is sauntering, not exercise. - Edward Bulwer-Lytton quote.
Reading without purpose is sauntering, not exercise.
I can't write without a reader.  It's precisely like a kiss—you can't do it alone. - John Cheever quote.
I can't write without a reader.  It's precisely like a kiss—you can't do it alone.
The mere brute pleasure of reading—the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing. - G. K. Chesterton quote.
The mere brute pleasure of reading—the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.
Some read to think, these are rare; some to write, these are common; and some read to talk, and these form the great majority. - C. C. Colton quote.
Some read to think, these are rare; some to write, these are common; and some read to talk, and these form the great majority.
Reading to most people, means an ashamed way of killing time disguised under a dignified name.
There is creative reading as well as creative writing. - Ralph Waldo Emerson quote.
There is creative reading as well as creative writing.
'Tis the good reader that makes the good book; a good head cannot read amiss; in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakably meant for his ear. - Ralph Waldo Emerson quote.
'Tis the good reader that makes the good book; a good head cannot read amiss; in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakably meant for his ear.
The profit of books is according to the sensibility of the reader; the profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until an equal mind and heart find and publish it. - Ralph Waldo Emerson quote.
The profit of books is according to the sensibility of the reader; the profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until an equal mind and heart find and publish it.
Reading is the unbelievably healthy way my attention deficit disorder medicates itself.  Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it's a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it's a way of making contact with someone else's imagination after a day that's all too real.  Reading is grist.  Reading is bliss. - Nora Ephron quote.
Reading is the unbelievably healthy way my attention deficit disorder medicates itself.  Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it's a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it's a way of making contact with someone else's imagination after a day that's all too real.  Reading is grist.  Reading is bliss.
Nora Ephron I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman
The reader who plucks a book from her shelf only once is as deprived as the listener who, after attending a single performance of a Beethoven symphony, never hears it again. - Anne Fadiman quote.
The reader who plucks a book from her shelf only once is as deprived as the listener who, after attending a single performance of a Beethoven symphony, never hears it again.
Anne Fadiman Rereadings: Seventeen Writers Revisit Books They Love

re-reading

Reading is not an operation performed on something inert but a relationship entered into with another vital being. - Clifton Fadiman quote.
Reading is not an operation performed on something inert but a relationship entered into with another vital being.
The use of our reading is to aid us in thinking. - Edward Gibbon quote.
The use of our reading is to aid us in thinking.
Edward Gibbon The Miscellaneous Works of Edward Gibbon, Esq.
To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him, and travel in his company. - André Gide quote.
To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him, and travel in his company.
It's called "reading."  It's how people install new software into their brains.
Reading is a joy, but not an unalloyed joy. Books do not make life easier or more simple, but harder and more interesting.
The greatest gift is the passion for reading.  It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind.  It is a moral illumination. - Elizabeth Hardwick quote.
The greatest gift is the passion for reading.  It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind.  It is a moral illumination.
Reading is like permitting a man to talk a long time, and refusing you the right to say anything in rebuttal. - E. W. Howe quote.
Reading is like permitting a man to talk a long time, and refusing you the right to say anything in rebuttal.
To learn to read is to kindle a fire; every syllable spelled sparkles. - Victor Hugo quote.
To learn to read is to kindle a fire; every syllable spelled sparkles.
What is read with delight is commonly retained, because pleasure always secures attention; but the books which are consulted by occasional necessity, and perused with impatience, seldom leave any traces on the mind. - Samuel Johnson quote.
What is read with delight is commonly retained, because pleasure always secures attention; but the books which are consulted by occasional necessity, and perused with impatience, seldom leave any traces on the mind.
I love to lose myself in other men's minds.  When I am not walking, I am reading; I cannot sit and think.  Books think for me. - Charles Lamb quote.
I love to lose myself in other men's minds.  When I am not walking, I am reading; I cannot sit and think.  Books think for me.
It is often said that one has but one life to live, but that is nonsense.  For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived, for fiction, biography, and history offer an inexhaustible number of lives in many parts of the world, in all periods of time. - Louis L'Amour quote.
It is often said that one has but one life to live, but that is nonsense.  For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived, for fiction, biography, and history offer an inexhaustible number of lives in many parts of the world, in all periods of time.
What is reading but silent conversation? - W. S. Landor quote.
What is reading but silent conversation?
The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp.  The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story.
Ursula Le Guin Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places
Reading means borrowing. - G. C. Lichtenberg quote.
Reading means borrowing.
I forget the greater part of what I read, but all the same it nourishes my mind. - G. C. Lichtenberg quote.
I forget the greater part of what I read, but all the same it nourishes my mind.
Many readers judge the power of a book by the shock it gives their feelings—as some savage tribes determine the power of muskets by their recoil; that being considered best which fairly prostrates the purchaser. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow quote.
Many readers judge the power of a book by the shock it gives their feelings—as some savage tribes determine the power of muskets by their recoil; that being considered best which fairly prostrates the purchaser.
The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books. - Katherine Mansfield quote.
The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.
To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life. - W. Somerset Maugham quote.
To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.
A bit of trash now and then is good for the severest reader.  It provides that necessary roughage in the literary diet. - Phyllis McGinley quote.
A bit of trash now and then is good for the severest reader.  It provides that necessary roughage in the literary diet.
I don't think we should read for instruction but to give our souls a chance to luxuriate. - Henry Miller quote.
I don't think we should read for instruction but to give our souls a chance to luxuriate.
Henry Miller Dear, Dear Brenda: The Love Letters of Henry Miller to Brenda Venus
Study has been my sovereign remedy against the worries of life.  I have never had a care that an hour's reading could not dispel. - Montesquieu quote.
Study has been my sovereign remedy against the worries of life.  I have never had a care that an hour's reading could not dispel.
If you read twenty or thirty pages by a writer, and want to continue, you are in his sea and swimming in that sea.  He can write quite badly after that.  Because by that time, you're in his sea, and you're moving forward.
A cow stands in clover. When she is milked, that is her work; when she is merely eating, that is her play....  Not a handsome or elegant analogy, but it approximates for me the habit of reading—standing in a world of clover, the eating of which is occasionally utilitarian, usually nourishing. - Toni Morrison quote.
A cow stands in clover. When she is milked, that is her work; when she is merely eating, that is her play....  Not a handsome or elegant analogy, but it approximates for me the habit of reading—standing in a world of clover, the eating of which is occasionally utilitarian, usually nourishing.
The worst readers are those who behave like plundering troops: they take away a few things they can use, dirty and confound the remainder, and revile the whole. - Friedrich Nietzsche quote.
The worst readers are those who behave like plundering troops: they take away a few things they can use, dirty and confound the remainder, and revile the whole.
Traversing a slow page, to come upon a lode of pure shining metal is to exult inwardly for greedy hours.
It is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin; another's voice; another's soul. - Joyce Carol Oates quote.
It is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin; another's voice; another's soul.
The transaction between writer and reader is human civilization's most dazzling feat, yet it's such a part of our lives that it's, well, prosaic.
With one day's reading a man may have the key in his hands. - Ezra Pound quote.
With one day's reading a man may have the key in his hands.
Reading. . .that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude. - Marcel Proust quote.
Reading. . .that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.

biblical

Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself. - Marcel Proust quote.
Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself.

books

She could give herself up to the written word as naturally as a good dancer to music or a fine swimmer to water.
Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but, most important, it finds homes for us everywhere.
Reading is a discount ticket to everywhere.
Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own. - Arthur Schopenhauer quote.
Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own.
Let us see the result of good food in a strong body, and the result of great reading in a full and powerful mind. - Sydney Smith quote.
Let us see the result of good food in a strong body, and the result of great reading in a full and powerful mind.
But reading is not idleness...it is the passive, receptive side of civilization without which the active and creative world would be meaningless. - Stephen Spender quote.
But reading is not idleness...it is the passive, receptive side of civilization without which the active and creative world would be meaningless.
I was at that age when reading was still a passion and thus, save for a happy marriage, the best state possible in which to keep absolute loneliness at bay. - William Styron quote.
I was at that age when reading was still a passion and thus, save for a happy marriage, the best state possible in which to keep absolute loneliness at bay.
When I am reading a book, whether wise or silly, it seems to me to be alive and talking to me. - Jonathan Swift quote.
When I am reading a book, whether wise or silly, it seems to me to be alive and talking to me.
The habit of reading is the only enjoyment in which there is no alloy; it lasts when all other pleasures fade. - Anthony Trollope quote.
The habit of reading is the only enjoyment in which there is no alloy; it lasts when all other pleasures fade.
I only read what I am hungry for at the moment when I have an appetite for it, and then I do not read, I eat. - Simone Weil quote.
I only read what I am hungry for at the moment when I have an appetite for it, and then I do not read, I eat.
Will felt that the reader was in serious trouble most of the time, floundering in a swamp, and that it was the duty of anyone attempting to write English to drain this swamp quickly and get his man up on dry ground, or at least throw him a rope. - E. B. White quote.
Will felt that the reader was in serious trouble most of the time, floundering in a swamp, and that it was the duty of anyone attempting to write English to drain this swamp quickly and get his man up on dry ground, or at least throw him a rope.
As I read, my ears are opened to the magic of the spoken word. - Richard Wright quote.
As I read, my ears are opened to the magic of the spoken word.
When I only begin to read, I forget I'm on this world.  It lifts me on wings with high thoughts. - Anzia Yezierska quote.
When I only begin to read, I forget I'm on this world.  It lifts me on wings with high thoughts.
Rereading, not reading, is what counts. - Jorge Luis Borges quote.
Rereading, not reading, is what counts.

re-reading

Rereading, we find a new book.

re-reading

You can reread not from love or hatred but from a sense, often inchoate, that there's more to this book than you have been yet able to receive.
Alan Jacobs The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction

re-reading

The greatest pleasures of reading consist in re-reading.

re-reading

If a book told you something when you were fifteen, it will tell it to you again when you're fifty, though you may understand it so differently that it seems you're reading a whole new book. - Ursula Le Guin quote.
If a book told you something when you were fifteen, it will tell it to you again when you're fifty, though you may understand it so differently that it seems you're reading a whole new book.

re-reading

I can't imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once. - C. S. Lewis quote.
I can't imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.

re-reading

Any book which is at all important should be reread immediately. - Arthur Schopenhauer quote.
Any book which is at all important should be reread immediately.

re-reading

Thou Shalt Not Let a Day Pass Without Re-Reading Something Great.

re-reading

If you have a good paperback library of great writers, and if you keep re-reading them, you will have access to more secrets of literature than all the culture phonies who set the tone in big cities.

re-reading

One of life's best pleasures is reading a book of perfect beauty; more pleasurable still is rereading that book; most pleasurable of all is lending it to the person one loves.

re-reading

I'm always nervous about going home, just as I am nervous about rereading books that have meant a lot to me. - Jeanette Winterson quote.
I'm always nervous about going home, just as I am nervous about rereading books that have meant a lot to me.

re-reading

It just came to me. The great pleasure of the book was that it came so easily. All I had to do was be there with buckets to catch it. - Saul Bellow quote.
It just came to me. The great pleasure of the book was that it came so easily. All I had to do was be there with buckets to catch it.
For the last decade or so I prefer writers I've already read.  Proven wine. - Truman Capote quote.
For the last decade or so I prefer writers I've already read.  Proven wine.
Truman Capote The Dogs Bark: Public People and Private Places
Read what you love until you love to read. - Naval Ravikant quote.
Read what you love until you love to read.
No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance. - Confucius quote.
No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.
You cannot open a book without learning something. - Confucius quote.
You cannot open a book without learning something.
Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.
If you don't feel that you haven't read enough, you haven't read enough. - Nassim Nicholas Taleb quote.
If you don't feel that you haven't read enough, you haven't read enough.
One should not read like a dog obeying its master, but like an eagle hunting its prey.
Tell me what you don't read, I will tell you who you are.