In my whole life, I have known no wise people (over a broad subject matter area) who didn’t read all the time — none, zero. You’d be amazed at how much Warren reads–and at how...

One reads for pleasure…it is not a public duty.

Take a glass of wine while reading, your feet on the back of your slave. This is the best combination of pleasures that is.

More than the painting you see or the music you hear, the words you read become in the very act of reading them part of who you are, especially if they are the words of...

To live in books is cowardly—but people are not worth investigation.

A man who does not read miss great wisdom.

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

Real mystery – the very reason to read (and certainly write) any book – was to them a thing to dismantle, distill and mine out into rubble they could tyrannize into sorry but more permanent...

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

If this were a novel, I’d stop reading right now. I’d throw it across the room.

Great work doesn’t make me jealous; it makes me want to work.

Good books makes good life.

I have learned through dreams more wisdom, than by reading hundreds of books.

I hate to read books but a friend said he read the dictionary and that the Zebra did it.

Ho talvolta sognato che, quando verra’ il giorno del Giudizio,l’Onnipotente dira’ a Pietro, vedendoci arrivare con i nostri librisotto braccio: “Guarda, questi non hanno bisogno di alcun compenso. Non abbiamo nulla da dare loro.Questi hanno...

One thing I will surely miss is that I couldn’t read all the good books in this lifetime.

Once you read a classic, you will start loving even the smell of the books.

I like paper.

Drop everithing and read.

Lover of books, lover of knowledge.

…a novel, like a myth or any great work of art, can become an initiation that helps us to make a painful rite of passage from one phase of life, one state of mind, to...

That evening, in her apartment, still in Warsaw, Ana takes down a book from her shelf – a rather thick, ordinary paperback. It looks old, because it’s worn out and somehow shabby. But it’s not...

Every reading is a misreading.

What is it with you and that book?”Rafael laughed. “We have a personal relationship.

106When I don’t have anything to read, I feel like a tortoise without a shell or a boat without an anchor. There is nothing to hide under. Nowhere to stop and rest. When I don’t...

If everyone could learn how to read books properly and how to use them as effective tools for daily living, the facilities of colleges could easily go out of existence without any loss to society.’...

I am a grenade,” I said again. “I just want to stay away from people and read books and think and be with you guys because there’s nothing I can do about hurting you: You’re...

Your story must told.Live a life legacy- written book or notes.This will be there for many generations to know your rich experiences and knowledge.

After reading a book, you become someone else: Now you are not you, but you plus the book!

I prefer the company of books. When I’m reading, I’m never alone, I have a conversation with the book. It can be very intimate. Perhaps you know this feeling yourself? The sense that you’re having...

The true reader reads every work seriously in the sense that he reads it whole-heartedly, makes himself as receptive as he can. But for that very reason he cannot possibly read every work solemly or...

The most comfortable place for a tired mind is in the lap of a book.

Do you like Moby Dick?” he asks.”I hate it,” she says. “And I don’t say that about many things. Teachers assign it, and parents are happy because their kids are reading something of ‘quality.’ But...

You can be a writer who doesn’t read everyday. But you’re not fooling anyone. It shows, rather embarrassingly, in your work.

Be great, read great books.

This book is a treasure; I did not suspect it would be so good when I picked it up, but now I can feel the printed words seeping through my skin and into my veins,...

There is something called the rapture of the deep, and it refers to what happens when a deep-sea diver spends too much time at the bottom of the ocean and can’t tell which way is...

Like most uneducated Englishwomen, I like reading–I like reading books in the bulk.

Just read one book a month and at the end of they year you would be totally different but an impressive personality.

A book is not complete till it reaches a reader.

When I read a book, I put in all the imagination I can, so that it is almost like writing the book as well as reading it – or rather, it is like living it....

Welcome to Book-a-holic Anonymous.Hi, I’m g-lyn and I addictive to the written word. I love the smell of the blackest ink sliding across lightly texture paper. My eyes squint against the lost of time within...

I read everyday, because reading takes me away, away to a place where nothing is impossible.

Writing is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none.

If the novel is dead, I’m a necrophiliac.

She read novels. One book after another, sometimes at the rate of one a day, for a solid year. An acceptable form of escape that didn’t leave a hangover.

Get someone-anyone-to read books to you. Having books read to you at any age is the supremo ultimato of living.

You can’t enjoy art or books in a hurry.

Books fall open, you fall in

We read privately, mentally listening to the author’s voice and translating the writer’s thoughts. The book remains static and fixed; the reader journeys through it.