Adam Smith Quotes

...next to the pleasure of reading a favourite fishing book comes that of persuading a friend to read it too.

Books are something social - a writer speaking to a reader - so I think making the reading of a book the center of a social event, the meeting of a book club, is a brilliant idea.

The pleasure of reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.

One of the joys of reading is the ability to plug into the shared wisdom of mankind.

There is such seduction in a library of good books that I cannot resist the temptation to luxuriate in reading.

That you can go anywhere in America and get a book from a library is just the most amazing thing in the world. It's not a duty; it's a privilege and it's a joy. That joy is doubled and tripled and quadrupled if you read with other people.

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.

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

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

So he lent her books. After all, one of life's best pleasures is reading a book of perfect beauty; more pleasurable still is rereading that book; most pleasurable of all is lending it to the person one loves: Now she is reading or has just read the scene with the mirrors; she who is so lovely is drinking in that loveliness I've drunk.

Have you ever given someone a book you enjoyed enormously, with a feeling of envy because they were about to read it for the first time, an experience you could never have again?

Reading a story should be a fabulous, wonderful thing. The most important thing that parents can do for kids is to read with them and to let their kids see them reading books for their own pleasure.

I love the solitude of reading. I love the deep dive into someone else's story, the delicious ache of a last page.

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.

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

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

I even love the smell of books.

My son and I discovered Terry Pratchett's books together, when he was about eleven years old. He'd be reading on his own and would start to laugh, and then eagerly read the passage aloud to me--and I'd do the same to him! Pratchett's books became a shared source of delight for us back then, and they still are today.

The greatest gift is a passion for reading.

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.

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

...what will we someday do, I always wonder, without the pleasures of turning through books and stumbling on things we never meant to find?

Of all the things that make for happiness, the love of books comes first. No matter how the world may have used us, sure solace lies there.