Joy Of Reading Quotes
Quotes tagged as "joy-of-reading"
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![Jane Austen](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1651510251i/1265._UX200_CR0,4,200,200_.jpg)
“Oh! I am delighted with the book! I should like to spend my whole life in reading it.”
― Northanger Abbey
― Northanger Abbey
![H.L. Stephens](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1495803210i/6448992._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“To dream of afar, to chase a star, to believe in Captain Hook. To dance with bears and have no cares, this is the magic of a book.”
― The Case of Jack the Nipper
― The Case of Jack the Nipper
![Kamand Kojouri](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1583340033i/13500546._UX200_CR0,27,200,200_.jpg)
“Think not of the fragility of life, but of the power of books, when mere words have the ability to change our lives simply by being next to each other.”
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![C.S. Lewis](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1564671804i/1069006._UX200_CR0,44,200,200_.jpg)
“For I need not remind such an audience as this that the neat sorting out of books into age-groups, so dear to publishers, has only a very sketchy relation with the habits of any real readers. Those of us who are blamed when old for reading childish books were blamed when children for reading books too old for us. No reader worth his salt trots along in obedience to a time-table.”
― Of This and Other Worlds
― Of This and Other Worlds
![Nella Last](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1294625824i/1121736._UY200_CR66,0,200,200_.jpg)
“It's a great blessing if one can lose all sense of time, all worries, if only for a short time, in a book.”
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![Kamand Kojouri](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1583340033i/13500546._UX200_CR0,27,200,200_.jpg)
“Think not of the fragility of life, but of the power of books, when mere words can change our lives simply by being next to each other.”
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![Kamand Kojouri](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1583340033i/13500546._UX200_CR0,27,200,200_.jpg)
“For what was it about books that once finished left the reader in a bit of a haze and made them reread the last few sentences in order to continue the ringing in their hearts a while longer, so as not to let the silence illumine the fact that reading, they had gained something — distance, a lesson, a companion, a new world — but now, after the last full stop, they had lost something palpable and felt a little emptier than before.”
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![Holbrook Jackson](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1267416363i/139592._UX200_CR0,32,200,200_.jpg)
“If we are imprisoned in ourselves, books provide us with the means of escape. If we have run too far away from ourselves, books show us the way back.”
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![Nick Hornby](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1422915487i/2929._UX200_CR0,24,200,200_.jpg)
“I would never attempt to dissuade anyone from reading a book. But please, if you're reading something that's killing you, put it down and read something else, just as you would reach for the remote if you weren't enjoying a TV program...All I know is that you can get very little from a book that is making you weep with the effort of reading it. You won't remember it, and you'll be less likely to choose a book over [insert popular contemporary TV program] next time you have a choice.”
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![Kelseyleigh Reber](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1438483373i/5360299._UX200_CR0,50,200,200_.jpg)
“On a cloudy day, when the dim dance of the firelight and the warmth of the sconces are not enough, the books shed their own form of light. By the hundreds, they fill the shelves that stretch across every inch of exposed wall. They rise up to the ceiling, warriors of an impenetrable army, encircling my over-sized armchair and keeping me safe as they whisper their stories softly in my ear.”
― If I Resist
― If I Resist
![Alain Mabanckou](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1283691655i/70642._UX200_CR0,50,200,200_.jpg)
“it would be fairer to say I have traveled widely, without ever leaving my own native soil, I've traveled, one might say, through literature, each time I've opened a book the pages echoed with a noise like the dip of a paddle in midstream, and throughout my odyssey I never crossed a single border, and so never had to produce a passport, I'd just pick a destination at random, setting my prejudices firmly to one side, and be welcomed with open arms in places swarming with weird and wonderful characters”
― Broken Glass
― Broken Glass
![Jorge Luis Borges](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1652029755i/500._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Mi padre me dijo que leyera mucho ante todo. Sobretodo que viera en la lectura no una oblicación sino un goce. Creo que la frase lectura obligatoria es un contrasentido. La lectura no debe ser obligatoria. Podemos hablar de placer obligatorio. ¿Y por qué? El placer no es algo obligatorio; es algo que buscamos. ¿Felicidad obligatoria? La felicidad la buscamos también.
Pues bien, yo he sido profesor de literatura inglesa durante veinte años en la facultad de Filosofía y Letras en la universidad de Buenos Aires y siempre les aconsejé a mis estudiantes: Si un libro les aburre, déjenlo. No lo lean por que es famoso. No lean un libro porque es moderno. No lean un libro porque es antiguo.
Si un libro es tedioso para ustedes, déjenlo aunque ese libro sea "El Paraíso Perdido" o "El Quijote". Si un libro es tedioso seguro ese libro no fue escrito para ustedes. La lectura debe ser una forma de felicidad...”
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Pues bien, yo he sido profesor de literatura inglesa durante veinte años en la facultad de Filosofía y Letras en la universidad de Buenos Aires y siempre les aconsejé a mis estudiantes: Si un libro les aburre, déjenlo. No lo lean por que es famoso. No lean un libro porque es moderno. No lean un libro porque es antiguo.
Si un libro es tedioso para ustedes, déjenlo aunque ese libro sea "El Paraíso Perdido" o "El Quijote". Si un libro es tedioso seguro ese libro no fue escrito para ustedes. La lectura debe ser una forma de felicidad...”
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![Sarah J. Maas](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1582137198i/3433047._UX200_CR0,50,200,200_.jpg)
“I'd taken to situating myself in one of the little lounges overlooking the mountains, and had almost read an entire book in the deep-cushioned armchair, going slowly as I learned new words. But it had filled my time- given me quiet, steadfast company with those characters, who did not exist and never would, but somehow made me feel less... alone.”
― A Court of Mist and Fury
― A Court of Mist and Fury
![Travis Baldree](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1643317325i/22182916._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“She nursed a second beer while she tried not to race through the last three chapters of The Lens and the Dapplegrim. Brand was a blur beyond her vision, and the noise piled up against the walls, leaving her alone in the center of a perfect sphere of story. Each word tumbled into the next, a rockslide of prose that would end in a dramatic confrontation between Investigator Beckett and the deliciously devious Aramy, with Leena’s life in the balance. At least that’s where she expected things to go. The book had a way of confounding her expectations, and every time it did, she experienced a thrill of delight.”
― Bookshops & Bonedust
― Bookshops & Bonedust
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