Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes

At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.

She liked to sit on the front porch in the afternoons and read books she'd checked out from the library. Aside from coffee, reading was her only indulgence.

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

Reading is my favourite occupation, when I have leisure for it and books to read.

Most of my reading is rereading.

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.

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.

And as for me, thogh that I can but lyte, On bakes for to rede I me delyte, And to hem yeve I feyth and ful credence, And in myn herte have hem in reverence So hertely, that ther is game noon, That fro my bokes maketh me to goon, But hit be seldom, on the holyday; Save, certeynly, when that the month of May Is comen, and that I here the foules singe, And that the floures ginnen for to springe, Farwel my book and my devocion.

As always, one of her books was next to her.

Colin emphatically pushed the book cover shut when he finished reading. "Did you like it?" His dad asked. "Yup," Colin said. He liked all books, because he liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his head.

All good and true book-lovers practice the pleasing and improving avocation of reading in bed ... No book can be appreciated until it has been slept with and dreamed over.

We live for books.

The Only way to do all the things you'd like to do is to read

[When] he's here, he's always reading. He says books stop time. I myself think he's crazy...Don't tell anyone, but when he reads something that he likes he gets real happy, turns on the music, and dances by himself, or with a broom sometimes.

I enjoy books as misers enjoy treasures, because I know I can enjoy them whenever I please.

Some books we read, tho' few there are that hit the happy point where wisdom joins with wit.

Some people read books for fun.

I can look at my books with pleasure from a distance. Four feet is close enough.

Touring definitely makes you appreciate home more, so when I can be home, I like to stay home.

This book is to be read in bed.

We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four or five hundred pages.

Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me From mine own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom.

Some say life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

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

Reading a good poem can give me a far bigger kick than a novel. But it's not something I can keep doing. It would be like shooting up 10 times a day.