‎”Since I could only take six books per visit from the library, I had to time it right, or I’d be stuck on Sundays rereading the five Reader’s Digest Condensed Books sitting on our red...

It [fiction] allows us to see the world from the point of view of someone else and there has been quite a lot of neurological research that shows reading novels is actually good for you....

At the end of the afternoon she tore herself away from the story to go and buy some tobacco. This would be tricky on a holiday, but never mind, it was mainly a pretext so...

If a book is worth reading, it will most probably be worth reading twice.

I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book

Nechuť ke čtení je nám ještě nepochopitelnější, pokud pocházíme z generace, z doby, z prostředí či z rodiny, kde nám číst spíše zakazovali.”Přestaň už s tím čtením, zkazíš si oči!””Jdi si radši hrát ven, je...

Daily Bible reading, path of light.

They are a brilliant device for shape-shifting as we can slip into the skin of authors from other times, other cultural backgrounds, brilliant minds who give us a new perspective on life and the world...

On getting lost in a book. Set adriftA life unknownConnections formLove is sewn

Just write. That’s my only tip. And read. I guess that’s two.

Every story is a ride to some place and time other than here and now. Buried in an armchair, reclined on a couch, prostrate on your bed, or glued to your desk, you can go...

There are books that change our perspectives and books that change our personalities.

Maybe reading was just a way to make her feel less alone, to keep her company. When you read something you are stopped, the moment is stayed, you can sometimes be there more fully than...

Books don’t change people; paragraphs do, Sometimes even sentences.

I am grateful to all my readers; you inspired me to keep writing.

Collect books, even if you don’t plan on reading them right away. Nothing is more important than an unread library.

(…) era vorba despre o carte care ti se lipea de mana, iar ochii refuzau sa se lase invinsi de oboseala numai pentru a continua sa citeasca.

Reading is poor man’s way of travelling not just around the world but into the minds of people.

What about damp? What about flooding? Wouldn’t it make sense to have a little lawn or garden as a sort of buffer zone between the house and the water? But then it wouldn’t be Venice,...

Meggie thought this first whisper sounded a little different from one book to another, depending on weather or not she already knew the story it was going to tell her.

Live to read, read to learn.

The fire of literacy is created by the emotional sparks between a child, a book, and the person reading. It isn’t achieved by the book alone, nor by the child alone, nor by the adult...

An entire life spent reading would have fulfilled my every desire; I already knew that at the age of seven. The texture of the world is painful, inadequate; unalterable, or so it seems to me....

There is no ME without books; they’re everything I remember from childhood, from maturity … All that’s happened to me has been coloured, permanently, by my reading.

A book is like a key that fits into the tumbler of the soul. The two parts have to match in order for each to unlock. Then—click—a world opens.

In reading you must pursue to become a creator.

I’m pretty sure my addiction to reading has just reached a whole new level.

Even the top motivational speakers and inspirational writers are constantly reading books from other self-improvement people, because they truly understand that knowledge has no limit to it.

If you have read 6,000 books in your lifetime, or even 600, it’s probably because at some level you find ‘reality’ a bit of a disappointment.

Read to live another life, even if only for a chapter.

La lumière est dans le livre. Ouvrez le livre tout grand. Laissez-le rayonner, laissez-le faire.

Don’t buy books for your shelf, buy them for yourself.

Literature is a cake with many toys baked inside-and even if you find them all, if you don’t enjoy the path that leads you to them, it will be a hollow accomplishment. There was a...

It’s difficult to quantify precisely the effect of books on our lives – but generally speaking, it’s enormous.

To think that she had read the same elegiac prose he now beheld with such quiet awe made his heart sing.

I have been reading three books Dean lent me this week. One was like a rose garden–very pleasant, but just a little too sweet. And one was like a pine wood on a mountain–full of...

We live to read.

Aric’s voice was hoarse by the time he ended the tale, but he didn’t want to go to sleep. There was something so wonderfully intimate about sitting with another person like this, sharing a story,...

The reader, the booklover, must meet his own needs without paying too much attention to what his neighbors say those needs should be.