The best gift you can give me is a book.

Who can say they saw a whole play or read a whole book? Each has their own experience, their own play, their own book

Why are we reading, if not in hope of beauty laid bare, life heightened and its deepest mystery probed? Can the writer isolate and vivify all in experience that most deeply engages our intellects and...

Readers are often fans of Authors, but I, myself, am a fan of readers. They are the ones who breathe life into the pages that we give birth to, after all.

Only a true reader will understand how lovely it is to read a book on rainy days.

So it is that a writer writes many books. In each book, he intended several urgent and vivid points, many of which he sacrificed as the book’s form hardened.

This is one of the defining sorrows of books: that we cannot see one another.

Don’t read a book to let the time pass…let the time pass to read a book.

Don’t tell me the moon is shining, show me the glint of light on broken glass.

If you give a writer a line, they’ll take a paragraph…

Read different to think differently; world is already into rat race.

I have falling in love with reading.

I love books because I don’t have to wait for the commercials to be over to find out what happens.

If you don’t want to waste your time on thinking, start reading.

The man who does not read miss a great literature of knowledge. You must dare to read and reread.

Reading is an activity of the imagination, and the imagination in question is not the writer’s alone.

A good reader has the power to move the world.

I am a passionate reader.New interested books keep adding on my reading list. My wildest dream is to complete reading all the books.

…what really makes for readability is not clarity but attitude: the attitude of your prose toward out elusive friend the Reader and the role you invent for that invented being in your invented world.

If words come alive on the page, the writer succeeds in connecting to the reader.

I want you to tell all these people that I wanted more time to spend with them. Tell them I meant to, tell them I wanted to hear what they said and tell them what...

Fiction may be about lying – on the surface, anyway – but fiction is about hiding the truth behind those lies. It’s about using those lies to say something true and real. It’s about showing...

Statistically, if you’re reading this sentence, you’re an oddball. The average American spends three minutes a day reading a book. At this moment, you and I are engaged in an essentially antiquated interaction. Welcome, fellow...

A word (…) is never the destination, merely a signpost in its general direction; and whatever (…) body that destination finally acquires owes quite as much to the reader as to the writer.

When a reader enters the pages of a book of poetry, he or she enters a world where dreams transform the past into knowledge made applicable to the present, and where visions shape the present...

I am forever an advocate of books, both the reading of them and the writing. There is something sacred to me in that community. Because writing–and reading–is a solitary business. And it’s good to know...

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The pages of a book are given life only as they are opened

Do what you love, especially if your sharing the word

I am so happy that I made someone cry today – don’t worry I’m a writer. It’s when they make me cry that it’s a problem.

Is it not a pity when some stylistic subtlety is lost without trace by the reader’s inattention?

In order to be heard, an author must have readers…

Maybe this is why we read, and why in moments of darkness we return to books: to find words for what we already know.

We’ve inherited many ideas about writing that emerged in the eighteenth century, especially an interest in literature as both an expression and an exploration of the self. This development part of what distinguishes the “modern”...