Eudora Welty Quotes

A childhood without books – that would be no childhood. That would be like being shut out from the enchanted place where you can go and find the rarest kind of joy.

If you don’t like to read, you haven’t found the right book.

My mum was a librarian, and she brought home a lot of interesting books, and we just read and read. I suppose I didn't really think I could be a writer myself until I was working in editing in my 20s and discovered that actually, the books that came in were not very much like published books.

I love reading; I really enjoy it. I read books quite fast, which kind of annoys me, but I like it at the same time because I can read a book in a day.

I don't love reading so much, but I love book shopping. It's just because I don't have much time.

You need have no dull hours if you are a sincere lover of books.

The greatest pleasure in life is that of reading while we are young. I have had as much of this pleasure perhaps as any one.

As a grad student and later as a writer, I have found it hard to sustain the pure, almost erotic love of reading I had as a kid - you know, where you climb in bed and read for hours and hours, and the book itself is this charged magical object. Later, when writing becomes your job, it's tied up with ego and all kinds of worry, and it's not always easy to get to that state of pure escape.

I'm always reading books-as many as there are. I ration myself on them so that I'll always be in supply.

I do not know any reading more easy, more fascinating, more delightful than a catalogue.

When I think of all the books still left for me to read, I am certain of further happiness.

A taste for books, which is still the pleasure and glory of my life.

She read books quickly and compulsively, paperback after paperback, as if she might drift away without the anchor of the printed page.

Books are a hard-bound drug with no danger of an overdose. I am the happy victim of books.

This is not about money or anything other than the pleasure of reading for people who want to read it.

To encounter a fine book and have time to read it is a wonderful thing.

In fact, isn't it a joy - there is hardly a greater one - to find a new book, a living book, and to know that it will remain with you while life lasts?

But it doesn't stop at school. We can all enjoy books throughout our lives - as I certainly continue to do.

Our hope is that the elementary reading of comics will lead to the joy of reading good books.

Because reading is one of the joys of life, and once you begin, you can't stop, and you've got so many stories to look forward to.

The greatest gift is a passion for reading.

I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.

He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.

Book lovers will understand me, and they will know too that part of the pleasure of a library lies in its very existence.

My youngest brother had a wonderful schtick from some time in high school, through to graduating medicine. He had a card in his wallet that read, ‘If I am found with amnesia, please give me the following books to read …’ And it listed half a dozen books where he longed to recapture that first glorious sense of needing to find out ‘what happens next’ … the feeling that keeps you up half the night. The feeling that comes before the plot’s been learned.