Reading Is Perfection.

I have come to the conclusion that reading is perhaps the most underrated concept in this modern generation. It's almost as though it's become a thing of the past, so old-fashioned that it simply cannot compete with the flashiness of a high definition tv or a cluttered smart phone. And it is a crying shame. Books are absolutely beautiful. They provide everything from quaint entertainment to thought provocation to a clever means of transportation, toting readers almost effortlessly into a brand new, exotic world, often unbeknownst to the readers themselves. There is something sweetly satisfying about unearthing stories for oneself, rather than simply hearing them or watching them. There is something wonderfully curious about turning a well-worn page only to discover that just as much vivacity can be consumed on the pages to come. There is something gratifying in the realization that a good book will never fail you; it won't change despite the fast-paced change of the world in which it resides. Reading is the greatest. It really is. And it was this thought that prompted me to find some incredible - and quite valid - quotes about reading, about taking in a good book. So feel free to read on. And take the words to heart.


"There is no friend as loyal as a book."  -Ernest Hemingway

"I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the tv set, I go into the other room and read a book."  -Groucho Marx

"I love books. I love that moment when you open one and sink into it. You can escape from the world, into a story that's way more interesting than yours will ever be."  -Elizabeth Scott

"A great book provides escapism for me. The artistry and the creativity in a story are better than any drugs."  -Wentworth Miller

"You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive."  -James Baldwin

"I am simply a 'book drunkard.' Books have the same irresistible temptation for me that liquor has for its devotee. I cannot withstand them."   -L.M. Montgomery

"There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them."  -Ray Bradbury

"Perhaps the greatest reading pleasure has an element of self-annihilation. To be so engrossed that you barely know you exist."  -Ian Mcewan