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.

Description is what makes the reader a sensory participant in the story. Good description is a learned skill,one of the prime reasons you cannot succeed unless you read a lot and write a lot. It’s...

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.

Live to read.Read for life.

If you are not reading and thinking, it means that your windows looking to the ocean are closed!

The joy of reading with our children doesn’t stop as they, and we, get older; it simply changes.

I read like the flame reads the wood.

Reading is like a bridge which fills the gap between the real world and the imaginations.

the book I was reading turned out to be crack

All must read their so-called ‘holy’ book – word by word – to determine, by self, its unholy bit.

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

I find things hidden in books: dried flowers, locks of hair, tickets, labels, receipt, invoices, photographs, postcards, all manner of cards. I find letters, unpublished works by the ordinary, the anguished, the illiterate. Clumsily written...

[I] read books because I love them, not because I think I should read them.

Books whose topics I thoroughy depsise are accapteble because they often force the reader to think and to examine his own beliefs. In an age where most people are either blindly obedient or radical, exposing...

Lost in a book is a great place to be found.

All the successful personalities had one common element, they all liked reading books.

When I began writing The Night Bookmobile, it was a story about a woman’s secret life as a reader. As I worked it also became a story about the claims that books place on their...

– Io non potrò mai darti quel genere di sensazioni, mi dispiace.– Ed io non le voglio … perché ho capito che è facile innamorarsi di un mito. Chi non s’innamorerebbe di un attore bello...

I guess you can call me “old fashioned”. I prefer the book with the pages that you can actually turn. Sure, I may have to lick the tip of my fingers so that the pages...

Antonio-“Just in time, Pete. Five more minutes of reading this and she’d have been in a coma.”Peter-“Are we such bad company that you’d rather hide out in here reading that old thing?

Books allow you to open doors, and chapters allow you to explore

When book and reader’s furrowed brow meet, it isn’t always the book that’s stupid.

A book lives a new life every time it is read.

Editors can be stupid at times. They just ignore that author’s intention. I always try to read unabridged editions, so much is lost with cut versions of classic literature, even movies don’t make sense when...

I personaggi, le frasi e le parole trovate nei libri sono come ponti che ti permettono di spostarti da dove sei verso dove vuoi andare, e quasi sempre è un ponte che unisce il tuo...

There is something magical about losing yourself in a world that doesn’t exist.

If you take a book into your hands, be it ‘God’s book, or any other useful good book,’ rely on God to make it profitable to you. Do not waste time reading unprofitable books. When...

One can’t prescribe books, even the best books, to people unless one knows a good deal about each individual person.

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.

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...

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.

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.