Natalie Goldberg Quotes

The greatest pleasure of reading consists in re-reading.

Oh! I am delighted with the book! I should like to spend my whole life in reading it.

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.

Some of the sweetest hours in life, in retrospect will be found to have been spent with books.

I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.

The first time I read an excellent work, it is to me just as if I gained a new friend; and when I read over a book I have perused before, it resembles the meeting of an old one.

Most scholarly books we read for the information or insight they contain. But some we return to simply for the pleasure of the author's company.

Books look handsome and it's a real singular experience getting to go to a bookstore. I don't want to not do that.

Only one hour in the normal day is more pleasurable than the hour spent in bed with a book before going to sleep, and that is the hour spent in bed with a book after being called in the morning.

A good book is always on tap; it may be decanted and drunk a hundred times, and it is still there for further imbibement.

So there you have it, a lifetime of first smelling the books, they all smell wonderful, reading the books, loving the books, and remembering the books.

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

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

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

Real luxury is time and opportunity to read for pleasure

Of all things I liked books best.

The true felicity of a lover of books is the luxurious turning of page by page, the surrender, not meanly abject, but deliberate and cautious, with your wits about you, as you deliver yourself into the keeping of the book. This I call reading.

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

Whether it is fun to go to bed with a good book depends a great deal on who's reading it.

I even love the smell of books.

I can't imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.

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

I feel lucky that I read so many books as a kid because I know that no matter how much I appreciate a book now, and I can love a book very much, it's never going to be that childhood passion for a book. There's some element, something special about the way they're reading books and experiencing books that's finite.

No matter how much we love a book, the experience of reading it isn't complete until we can give it to someone who will love it as much as we do

I mean, when you're tired of book reviews, you're tired of life.