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...

My new favorite title is How Jane Austen Ruined My Life. I don’t have the courage to read it, though. I’m afraid to discover she’s ruined mine as well.

I read as if time were running out, because technically it is. As I grow older I find I’m increasingly impatient with mediocre entertainments; I want books that will take my breath away and realign...

Reading is dreaming. Reading is entering a world of imagination shared between reader and author. Reading is getting beyond the words to the story or meaning underneath.

The ability to read becomes devalued when what one has learned to read adds nothing of importance to one’s life.

If a book doesn’t inspire you to read more, it was not worth read.

I like best to have one book in my hand, and a stack of others on the floor beside me, so as to know the supply of poppy and mandragora will not run out before...

Each time we come to a book we give it a different reading because we bring a different person to it. It is not you who reads the book, the book reads you

I have found that reading is much better than a good sleep.

Eventually, we come to love certain novels because we have expended so much imaginative labor on them. This is why we hang on to those novels, whose pages are creased and dog-eared.

Be as careful of the books you read, as of the company you keep; for your habits and character will be as much influenced by the former as the latter.

(…) perfectly ordinary books, printed on commonplace paper in mundane ink. It would be a mistake to think that they weren’t also dangerous, just because reading them didn’t make fireworks go off in the sky....

I spend money on convenient, comfortable and luxurious things; I spend money on books too.

When I read a daring book or listen to rebellious music, I feel like I’ve found what freedom really means.

Book means fly in the sky,cross the desert, without wing without water.

Books are a staircase to unknown worlds.

At the sight of a good book, you just can’t walk away but to claim and read it.

Life is too short to read books that I’m not enjoying.

Non ricordo in che libro fosse. Ma ora è in questo

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

People should read more.

These books have not made George nobler or better or more truly wise. It is just that he likes listening to their voices, the one or the other, acording to his mood. He misuses them...

Reading requires actual concentration. If you skipped a paragraph, or even an important sentence, you could lose the entire story. With most TV shows, though, you didn’t have to concentrate at all. You could space...

Discovery a good book is like finding a great treasure.

He was thirty-six years old, and six foot three. He spoke English to people and French to cats, and Latin to the birds. He had once nearly killed himself trying to read and ride a...

What reading does, ultimately, is keep alive the dangerous and exhilarating idea that a life is not a sequence of lived moments, but a destiny…the time of reading, the time defined by the author’s language...

Reading’s ability to beam you up to a different world is a good part of the reason why people like me do it in the first place—because dollar for dollar, hour per hour, it’s the...

We may need to put down the book from time to time, but we should make sure not to let the computer become the new book. The universal medium, like the universal library, is a...

A book is indeed dead until a reader brings it into life by reading it.

Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but, most important, it finds homes for us everywhere.

A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.

How can a man know how to live rightly on the face of earth? By daily reading and meditation on the Holy Scriptures and obedience to what is written.

We are not reading books merely to check off a list or to be able to say we have read them. We are reading to grow as persons, to know more that we may understand...

Things change, friends leave. And life doesn’t stop for anybody.

Deep layers of context are missed when cursorily reading for quantity at the expense of comprehension – only the vapid are impressed by those who try to squeeze as many books as possible into each...

I, on the other hand, believe that books, maps, scissors, and Scotch tape dispensers are all unreliable vagrants, likely to take off for parts unknown unless strictly confined to quarters.

People who love reading get an instantly warm feeling in their bellies when they hear others describe getting comfortable with a good book.

There is no other escape like a book. Reading expands your mind and opens your world to a myriad of possibilities.

…there are so many books left to read. For that reason alone it is worth going on living. Books make me happy, the help me escape from reality.

Books are more to treasure than cars.

In this way, I was able to place my own concerns aside and curl myself up in the cocoon of somebody else’s imagination. My life was suspended – I was in neither one place nor...

I love words. I crave descriptions that overwhelm my imagination with vivid detail. I dwell on phrases that make my heart thrum. I cherish expressions that pierce my emotions and force the tears to spill...

I am shocked to find that some people think a 2 star ‘I liked it’ rating is a bad rating. What? I liked it. I LIKED it! That means I read the whole thing, to...

If the eye really was a muscle, I had pulled it long ago.

There is much to discover that’s not on the back cover!

You could probably live without mastering the ability. But the ability to read those books…it’ll introduce you to new worlds and new thoughts. You can learn a lot about a man from the books he...

My books are a word feast.

Dinner-parties bore us because our imagination is absent, and reading interests us because it is keeping us company.

SUPPORT LITERACY! A child who cannot read cannot text.

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...