C. S. Lewis Quotes

I do not feel obliged in my reading. I read to be entertained and to relax, and to go into another world, not because it's good for me.

Whenever I have a few hours to dive into a book, I am happy.

For me, a holiday is about taking a book and going to a mountain and reading.

When I'm sitting in my hotel room, I'm reading. If I've got some time after class, I'm reading. If I can get away with it while I'm doing treatment, I'm reading.

There's nothing quite like sitting watching the telly on a Saturday night. It has such a nice, homely feel.

People are used to juggling multiple jobs and multiple responsibilities and multiple things on the home front, and sometimes you get a day off to read, and you just want a book that feels complete and that you can get through it on a rainy day on the couch.

The book on my nightstand right now isnt anything that inspired me, but it entertained me. I read a book on Labor Day, it was a holiday, and I have three daughters, and we all went to the shopping mall and I sat on the bench and read a book while they shopped, it was called The Greatest Golfer there Ever Was, it was a great book, easy to read and entertaining.

One of the things I enjoy most is to be left alone with a book.

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 used to read every, well, most nights. I think reading helps me in terms of relaxing... It helps me to get my mind off the game a little bit more and it helps me to be a little bit more focused.

I finished a big book the other day. 421 pages. That's a lot of coloring when you think about it.

One of my favorite times was sitting reading quote books, which I did for hours on end.

Read a lot when you're on vacation, but nothing that has to do with your business.

Some people read books for fun.

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

This is the great luxury of not working: the moment you read a book that has nothing to do with work, you know you're really relaxed. And I have a sh*t attention span. I can't concentrate for more than five minutes.

Waiting rooms were made for books-of course! But so are theater lobbies before the show, long and boring checkout lines, and everyone's favorite, the john.

Woke up this morning with a terrific urge to lie in bed all day and read.

I really love doing nothing. I really love just being at home and taking a couple of days, you know, doing nothing. You know what I mean? Just getting up, being around the house, going outside the back yard, coming back in; I really like to do nothing because I travel a lot. There's a lot of travelling. There's a lot of on the phone all the time. There's a lot of looking at papers and reading things and so you don't want to read magazines and you don't want to do anything; you don't want to read books, you just want to just kind of shut down a little bit.

Real luxury is time and opportunity to read for pleasure

How important my books are or anybody's books are, I don't know. I don't think they are terribly important I think that they make people contented during the period they are reading them and this is worth something is to take care of somebody for a couple of hours.

A day out-of-doors, someone I loved to talk with, a good book and some simple food and music - that would be rest.

I’d much rather pretend I’m somewhere else, and any time I open the pages of a book, that happens.

In my garden I spend my days; in my library I spend my nights.

I don't know if [Samuel] Beckett is something you ever bring to the beach - get out of the water, towel off, and start reading some of "The Unnamable." Although, because it's the kind of book you can open to any page and start reading, it is beach reading in that way.