With World Book Day tomorrow, After Hrs looks at some sweet, funny and quirky quotes on reading
Ask any bibliophile and he will tell you that reading a book can be life-changing. Some tomes have the power of staying inside our heads, their words leaving an impact in ways we don’t sometimes understand. As we celebrate World Book Day tomorrow, here’s a look at a few quotable quotes to make your day...
I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound or stab us. If the book we’re reading doesn’t wake us up with a blow to the head, what are we reading for? So that it will make us happy, as you write? Good Lord, we would be happy precisely if we had no books, and the kind of books that make us happy are the kind we could write ourselves if we had to. But we need books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us. That is my belief.
— Franz Kafka, Author
Let’s be reasonable and add an eighth day to the week that is devoted exclusively to reading.
— Lena Dunham, Actor and writer
What really knocks me out is a book that, when you’re all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn’t happen much, though.
— From The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger
Happiness. That’s what books smells like. Happiness. That’s why I always wanted to have a book shop. What better life than to trade in happiness?
— From The Rogue Not Taken by Sarah MacLean
Book readers are special people, and they will always turn to books as the ultimate pleasure. Those who do not read are the unfortunate ones. There’s nothing wrong with them; but they are missing out on one of life’s compensations and rewards. A great book is a friend that never lets you down. You can return to it again and again and the joy first derived from it will still be there.
— Ruskin Bond, Author
It's not that I don’t like people. It’s just that when I’m in the company of others – even my nearest and dearest – there always comes a moment when I’d rather be reading a book.
— Maureen Corrigan, Author and literary critic
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