Quotes - Tiana Coutts (Palmerston North, G2, New Zealand) Showing 1-30 of 65

#1

“Books don't offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw.”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

tags: books, escape, reading

1587 likes

#2

“Easy reading is damn hard writing.”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne

tags: on-writing, reading, writing

1380 likes

#3

“My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.”
― Edith Sitwell

tags: hobbies, music, reading, silence

1321 likes

#4

“No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.”
― Atwood H. Townsend

tags: reading, study, willful-ignorance

1236 likes

#5

“Literature is news that stays news.”
― Ezra Pound, ABC of Reading

tags: books, literature, reading

1195 likes

#6

“I read for pleasure and that is the moment I learn the most.”
― Margaret Atwood

tags: reading

1135 likes

#7

“I guess there are never enough books.”
― John Steinbeck, A John Steinbeck Encyclopedia

tags: books, reading, sufficiency

1109 likes

#8

“To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.”
― Victor Hugo

tags: reading

1092 likes

#9

“A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.”
― Robertson Davies

tags: architecture, books, perspective, reading, rereading

998 likes

#10

“Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: reading, science

939 likes

#11

“No two persons ever read the same book.”
― Edmund Wilson

tags: books, perspective, reading

776 likes

#12

“I couldn't live a week without a private library - indeed, I'd part with all my furniture and squat and sleep on the floor before I'd let go of the 1500 or so books I possess.”
― H. P. Lovecraft

tags: books, library, literature, reading, words

768 likes

#13

“A well-read woman is a dangerous creature.”
― Lisa Kleypas, A Wallflower Christmas

tags: humor, reading, wallflowers, women

688 likes

#14

“I am a part of everything that I have read.”
― Theodore Roosevelt

tags: reading

659 likes

#15

“Children are made readers on the laps of their parents.”
― Emilie Buchwald

tags: children, parenting, reading

676 likes

#16

“Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.”
― Socrates

tags: inspirational, reading, wisdom

581 likes

#17

“As always, one of her books was next to her.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

tags: books, reading

579 likes

#18

“There is creative reading as well as creative writing.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: creativity, enlightenment, learning, reading, writing

576 likes

#19

“If a book is well written, I always find it too short.”
― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

tags: books, reading

568 likes

#20

“My arms are killing me.
I didn't know words could be so heavy.”
― Markus Zusak, I Am the Messenger

tags: books, reading

519 likes

#21

“Somebody who only reads newspapers and at best books of contemporary authors looks to me like an extremely near-sighted person who scorns eyeglasses. He is completely dependent on the prejudices and fashions of his times, since he never gets to see or hear anything else.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: diversity, independent-thought, reading

491 likes

#22

“Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.”
― Henry Ward Beecher

tags: book-lover, reading

491 likes

#23

“I am an omnivorous reader with a strangely retentive memory for trifles.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Lion's Mane

tags: memory, reading, trivia

480 likes

#24

“Even a book can be dangerous in the wrong hands, and when that happens, you blame the hands, but you also read the book.”
― Erika Johansen, The Queen of the Tearling

tags: books, decision, hands, judging, people, reading

445 likes

#25

“For my whole life, my favorite activity was reading. It's not the most social pastime.”
― Audrey Hepburn

tags: reading

416 likes

#26

“I'm old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised.”
― Wislawa Szymborska, Nonrequired Reading

tags: books, literature, reading, words

396 likes

#27

“A book read by a thousand different people is a thousand different books.”
― Andrei Tarkovsky

tags: books, people, reading

391 likes

#28

“You want to remember that while you're judging the book, the book is also judging you.”
― Stephen King, Night Shift

tags: books, judging, reading

369 likes

#29

“We don't need to have just one favorite. We keep adding favorites. Our favorite book is always the book that speaks most directly to us at a particular stage in our lives. And our lives change. We have other favorites that give us what we most need at that particular time. But we never lose the old favorites. They're always with us. We just sort of accumulate them.”
― Lloyd Alexander

tags: favorite-books, favorites, reading

356 likes

#30

“We're all strangers connected by what we reveal, what we share, what we take away--our stories. I guess that's what I love about books--they are thin strands of humanity that tether us to one another for a small bit of time, that make us feel less alone or even more comfortable with our aloneness, if need be.”
― Libba Bray

tags: books, libba-bray, reading

351 likes

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