#reading

"For once the disease of reading has laid upon the system it weakens 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."

"Books are not about passing time. They're about other lives. Other worlds. Far from wanting time to pass, one just wishes one had more of it. If one wanted to pass the time one could go to New Zealand."

"فكم من الأشياء قد تحدث لنا بسبب ما نقرأ.ذلك أن ثمة قراءات تفعل بنا فعل الكتابة، وتوصلنا إلى حيث لا نتوقع !"

"Whenever you read a good book, somewhere in the world a door opens to allow in more light."

"Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home."

"When I was in my twenties and broke, I'd buy books before food. A meal will sustain you for a few hours, a good book will sustain you for life."

"I owe everything I am and everything I will ever be to books."

"You know how it is when you're reading a book and falling asleep, you're reading, reading... and all of a sudden you notice your eyes are closed? I'm like that all the time."

"Books didn’t make me wallow in darkness, darkness made me wallow in books."

"Another way of remaining in intimacy with God is by remaining in His presence."

"Doctor Who: You want weapons? We're in a library. Books are the best weapon in the world. This room's the greatest arsenal we could have. Arm yourself!(from Tooth and Claw in Season 2)"

"Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life."

"Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you."

"I see all of us reading ourselves away from ourselves, straining in circles of light to find more light until the line of words becomes a trail of crumbs that we follow across a page of fresh snow"

"Get books, sit yourself down anywhere, and go to reading them yourself."

"An hour spent reading is one stolen from paradise."

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

"Books, I don't know what you see in them. I can understand a person reading them, but I can't for the life of me see why people have to write them."

"A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say."

"What kind of life can you have in a house without books?"