Charles Dickens Quotes

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

One of the great joys in life is reading, yet it's the main thing people say they don't have time to do.

I have an intimate relationship with books. After all, I take them with me into the bathtub-not an invitation I offer lightly.

The greatest gift is a passion for reading.

I like to believe, as a writer, that anybody who isn't a reader yet has just not found the right book.

I'd like for the young people, and older ones, too, who don't count themselves as readers, to know the joy of reading and what it does to enrich your life in so many ways.

I sleep way too much and I read tremendously.

I can't picture going to a beach, or anywhere on vacation, without a couple of books as companions.

I love to read, and I like the fact that there's some silence in my life.

I read all the time, and I'm often struck by something I'm reading.

I spend a lot of time reading.

I absolutely love reading.

My personal view is that reading has to be balanced. Obviously, there's a certain amount of reading that we have to do academically to continue to learn and to grow, but it's got to be balanced with fun and with elective reading. Whether that's comic books or Jane Austen, if it makes you excited about reading, that's what matters.

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

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.

I don't want to review books any more. It cuts in too much on my reading.

From candlelight to early bedtime, I read.

There's nothing wrong with reading a book you love over and over.

I just stopped reading a lot of books. I mean, I read books that I have to read for school, but I don't actually pick up a book and read for fun. On my time off, I go to movies, hang out with friends, go shopping...just little things.

I figured I could read more than five pages tonight since I'd been deprived for the last couple of days. When I finished the fifteenth, I discovered I was three pages from the next chapter. Might as well end with a clean break. After I was done, I sighed and leaned back, feeling decadent and spent. Pure bliss. Books were a lot less messy than orgasms.

... But he recommended the books which charmed her leisure hours, he encouraged her taste, and corrected her judgment; he made reading useful by talking to her of what she read, and heightened its attraction by judicious praise.

Reading has always been my home, my sustenance, my great invincible companion. "Book love," Trollope called it. "It will make your hours pleasant to you as long as you live." Yet of all the many things in which we recognize some universal comfort...reading seems to be the one in which the comfort is most undersung.

One should learn from a book. Books have a lot to teach us. They have a lot of empathy to impart to us, but they should also be fun. This stuff is fun! You shouldn't pick up a book and say, "Oh my god, I'm gonna better myself by reading this." You may better yourself by reading this, but who cares? Just have fun.

Me and a book is a party. Me and a book and a cup of coffee is an orgy.