He pinched the remaining chapters’ pages delicately between his fingers and sighed. He always hated reaching the end of a good book.

A book may be regarded as irrelevant until it’s relevance, importance and purpose is discovered through reading

She’d become an English major for the purest and dullest of reasons: because she loved to read.

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

A book is like a vacation for the brain.

Only because books are better than people, Father. … Because they are masters who instruct without a rod. If you approach them, they are never asleep; if you are ignorant, they never laugh; if you...

Lost in my dreams, I somehow cross at the traffic signals, bumping into street lamps or people, yet moving onward, exuding fumes of beer and grime, yet smiling, because my briefcase is full of books...

And if our book consumption remains as low as it has been, at least let us admit that it is because reading is a less exciting pastime than going to the dogs, the pictures or...

The world of books captured my heart.

Reading a book, for me at least, is like traveling in someone else’s world. If it’s a good book, then you feel comfortable and yet anxious to see what’s going to happen to you there,...

Hay quienes no pueden imaginar un mundo sin pájaros; hay quienes no pueden imaginar un mundo sin agua; en lo que a mi se refiere, soy incapaz de imaginar un mundo sin libros.

You should’ve thought of that before becoming a fireman.””Thought!” he said. “Was I given a choice? I was raised to think the best thing in the world is not to read. The best thing is...

You’re never alone when you’re reading a book.

Pretjerano čitanje ne čini nas pametnijim. Neki ljudi jednostavno ‘gutaju’ knjige. Oni to čine bez onih neophodnih intervala razmišljanja, koji su potrebni da se pročitano ‘svari’, preradi, usvoji, razumije. Kod čitanja lični doprinos je potreban...

Everything you read, becomes a part of your life.

Besides it’s not as though the prisoner can truly die, any more than a character in a novel can. You can always flip back to the first page, can’t you?

A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition. Like money, books must be kept in constant circulation… A book is not only a friend, it makes friends for you. When you have possessed...

When I have money, I invest in buying books. My personal development by reading these books is my greatest pleasure.

And please, stay away from those books you devour. They are putting the most fantastical tales into your head.

Never read a book that is not a year old.

when you are reading a book, and you know that it is going to be a tragedy; you can feel the cold and darkness coming, see the net drawing tight around the characters who live...

As any avid reader knew, a good read deserved a good seat.

People who say they don’t have time to read simply don’t want to.

Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.

Never judge a book by its “spine”.

She read all sorts of things: travels, and sermons, and old magazines. Nothing was so dull that she couldn’t get through with it. Anything really interesting absorbed her so that she never knew what was...

Reading a book is a silent conversation between two friends.

Long books, when read, are usually overpraised, because the reader wishes to convince others and himself that he has not wasted his time.

You enter a book as if you are setting out on a journey and, if it is a good book, you will be a different person when you reach the end.

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

Reading is awesome and flexible and fits around chores and earning money and building the future and whatever else I’m doing that day. My attitude towards reading is entirely Epicurean—reading is pleasure and I pursue...

Being blind is the worst possible thing and asking me to read and write no more is torture.

Reading is important, because if you can read, you can learn anything about everything and everything about anything.

That’s how you have to read this book, you see. You wade through a few sentences, then stop and think about them, then wade through a few more.

Remember that the truth within yourself will always be greater than the truth found in these pages. These stories are here to guide us—to help us find that truth, not to tell us what it...

A classic is read not to enjoy but only to be boast about it.

I have always been passionate about travelling. Credits to the books for they were invented. If not, I might not be able to reach my dream.

There was a day when writers actually read,” he grumbles. “They could quote Keats and Socrates. Now anyone with a keyboard and a fifth-grade education can call themselves a writer.

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...

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.

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...

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.