Reading Therapy Quotes

When I say what I'm reading, this is what I need. I know the ills that plague me.

Prisoners around the world have said that reading 'The Count of Monte Cristo' helped them get through their ordeal. That's something to aspire to.

Try letting a Kindle protect your heart from sniper fire!

I don't think of literary novels as self-help documents, although literature undoubtedly saved my life when I was young, enabling me to disappear into all manner of stories, to recognise feelings that I felt alone in.

I have a shelf of comfort books, which I read when the world closes in on me or something untoward happens.

Prescription: 'Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes. Take ten pages, twice a day, til end of course.

When I am attached by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.

There is hardly any grief that an hour's reading will not dissipate.

I do not know a better cure for mental illness than a book.

Every night, I have to read a book, so that my mind will stop thinking about things that I stress about.

At difficult times of my life, books have been an incredible comfort. When I was 12, I changed schools and my parents split up. It was then that I became addicted to reading. A great writer can attach themselves to your mind and heart, and you feel you understand the world better. As long as you have the capacity to read, you needn't be alone any more. I remember thinking as a child, "If I could give one person the comfort I keep getting from books, then I want to write."

I think we all like to get away from our troubles and worries with a good book.

I'm reading more than ever. I used to find it tedious, but now it's like my little friend - it takes my mind off things.

When life sucks, read. They can't yell at you for that. And if they do, then you can ignore them.

You could put your confusion and upset and worries into whatever book you were reading. You could sort of set them down in there, and you could come out with your head on a little straighter. I don't why stories worked that way, but they did.

Experience enables me to depose to the comfort and blessing that literature can prove in seasons of sickness and sorrow.

Nothing was truly unbearable if you had something to read.

I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve.

For me, books have always been a way to feel less alone while being alone.

Anita Shreve is an author I adore. I rip through her meaty books and get off on the robust romance immensely - especially if I am feeling less than robust in my real life.

When I need to decompress, I grab a glass of wine, some popcorn, and a great book.

There is a world of science necessary in choosing books. I have known some people in great sorrow fly to a novel, or the last light book in fashion. One might as well take a rose-draught for the plague! Light reading does not do when the heart is really heavy. I am told that Goethe, when he lost his son, took to study a science that was new to him. Ah! Goethe was a physician who knew what he was about.

I love to read about anger. A "feel bad" book always makes me feel good. And no other novel in the history of literature is more depressing than Christina Stead's The Man Who Loved Children.

I know that part of the reason I read Tolkien when I'm ill is that there is an almost total absence of sexuality in his world, which is restful.