Reading Literature Quotes

To me, this is the singular privilege of reading literature: we are allowed to step into another's life.

Through reading literature we can make ghosts speak to us, and we can speak back to them.

My writing is a combination of three elements. The first is travel: not travel like a tourist, but travel as exploration. The second is reading literature on the subject. The third is reflection.

Because most of the girls were still in mourning and all of them had lost their textbooks, even pencils and pens, Shaukat Ali began the first classes by reading to them from poetry and religious texts. "Reading, literature, and spirituality are good for the soul," he told them. "So we will start with these studies.

A mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.

Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.

I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.

To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.

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

There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates' loot on Treasure Island...

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

Some say life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

Reading literature is a way of reaching back to something bigger and older and different.

The more you read, the more things you will know.

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.

I started reading literature at 17 or 18, and I felt this extra beat to life.

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

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

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.