Friday 21 November 2014

Awesome Quotes for Bookworms



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‘We read to know we’re not alone’ - William Nicholson 

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.” - George R. R. Martin

“If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.” - Oscar Wilde

“Classic' - a book which people praise and don't read.” - Mark Twain

“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”  - Oscar Wilde

“A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.” – William Styron

“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.” – Ray Bradbury

“A good library will never be too neat, or too dusty, because somebody will always be in it, taking books off the shelves and staying up late reading them.” – Lemony Snicket

“Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.” – Carlos Ruiz Zafon

“Isn't it odd how much fatter a book gets when you've read it several times?" Mo had said..."As if something were left between the pages every time you read it. Feelings, thoughts, sounds, smells...and then, when you look at the book again many years later, you find yourself there, too, a slightly younger self, slightly different, as if the book had preserved you like a pressed flower...both strange and familiar.” – Cornelia Funke

“A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.” – Italo Calvino

Reader's Bill of Rights
1. The right to not read
2. The right to skip pages
3. The right to not finish
4. The right to reread
5. The right to read anything
6. The right to escapism
7. The right to read anywhere
8. The right to browse
9. The right to read out loud
10. The right to not defend your tastes” – Daniel Pennac

1 comment:

  1. reading forms such an important role in our lives, great quotes that highlight these

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