Top Reading Quotes

I love the solitude of reading. I love the deep dive into someone else's story, the delicious ache of a last page.

Soon enough his head would be swimming with tales of derring-do and high adventure, tales of beautiful maidens kissed, of evildoers shot with pistols or fought with swords, of bags of gold, of diamond...

Reading Definition

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Read

(n.) The act of one who reads; perusal; also, printed or written matter to be read.

(n.) Study of books; literary scholarship; as, a man of extensive reading.

(n.) A lecture or prelection; public recital.

(n.) The way in which anything reads; force of a word or passage presented by a documentary authority; lection; version.

(n.) Manner of reciting, or acting a part, on the stage; way of rendering.

(n.) An observation read from the scale of a graduated instrument; as, the reading of a barometer.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the act of reading; used in reading.

(a.) Addicted to reading; as, a reading community.

Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.

I was in my mid-teens when someone gave me a copy of 'Pears Encyclopaedia of Myth and Legends' as a birthday present. It sat on my shelves for many months before I looked at it. When I did, I couldn't...

But I can now understand why people read, why they like to get lost in somebody else's life. Sometimes I'll read a sentence and it will make me sit up, jolt me, because it is something that I have rec...

You know what pulp is, Mr. Tallis? It's the flesh of a luscious fruit, mashed down into an incredible, half liquid richness. so saturated with flavor that it fills your whole body, not just your mouth...

A responsible woman sees and accepts only the best in a given situation.

When I want to read a novel, I write one.

You are a book being read every moment, By someone or the other, Though only in parts! But, you are extremely safe, Rather, unfortunate For no one has ever read the entire book!

I refilled the wineglass and took it with me for a nice long bubble bath, where I settled in with Ambrose's guide for low-voltage outdoor lighting.It wasn't thrilling bubble-bath reading material, but...

The function of a book is to provide a reading experience.

When a man finds this kind of woman, he will go all out for her knowing that she will not be a letdown.

Why is it these days that so many people hate reading? Some people won't even touch a newspaper or magazine. It isn't television that kills reading, or cinema or radio, or even those accursed little t...

Don't be amazed if you see my eyes always wandering. In fact, this is my way of reading, and it is only in this way that reading proves fruitful to me. If a book truly interests me, I cannot follow it...

I never deliberately learned to read, but somehow I had been wallowing illicitly in the daily papers. In the long hours of church--was it then I learned? I could not remember not being able to read hy...

I am a passionate reader.New interested books keep adding on my reading list. My wildest dream is to complete reading all the books.

People read books to escape the uncertainties of life.

I'm a Virgo and I'm more - I don't want to say 'negative' - but I'm the girl who thinks no one's coming to my birthday party, no one's buying my clothes, no one's reading my book, no one's watching my...

I wanted to crawl in between those black lines of print, the way you crawl through a fence, and go to sleep under that beautiful big green fig-tree.

He fed his spirit with the bread of books