Mortimer Adler Quotes

Often I think the novels I read won't make very good movies - I better not say which I'm looking at for potential films! - but it's nice to have an excuse to just sit and read for a whole day.

If you're going to binge, literature is definitely the way to do it.

I want people to be open to the idea of sitting down and reading a Dickens book. They will also have a great time.

Finding new books to read and relaxing is what I enjoy when I do have some time to spend on my own.

I like reading romantic novels.

I don't like anything too heavy. Something I can read, you know, lying in bed that takes me to different world.

I like to read fiction.

Reading is my passion.

Reading is such a huge part of my life.

What better place to kill time than a library?

Be you writer or reader, it is very pleasant to run away in a book.

I honestly believe there is absolutely nothing like going to bed with a good #book; or a friend who's #read one.

The usual way - a little wine, a little dinner.

No music + Bad TV = Bad mood & no pages.

I'm wondering what to read next.

Don’t you love the Oxford Dictionary? When I first read it, I thought it was a really really long poem about everything.

Vacation cruises are advertised as luxurious journeys to exotic places, but a chief pleasure is the reading of books ... . On steamer chairs topside or poolside, in the lounges, everywhere you see men and women with their noses in books, devouring them for hours.

There is nothing nicer than nodding off while reading. Going fast asleep and then being woken by the crash of the book on the floor, then saying to yourself, well it doesn't matter much. An admirable feeling.

Books are a languid pleasure.

Books of quotations ... afford me one of the most undemanding but satisfying forms of reading pleasure.

I seek in the reading of books, only to please myself, by an honest diversion.

Poetry is not the most important thing in life... I'd much rather lie in a hot bath reading Agatha Christie and sucking sweets.

Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors.

Reading was the only amusement I allowed myself