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

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

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.

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...

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.

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.

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.

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.

Only a true reader will understand how lovely it is to read a book on rainy days.

Language spread its warm, absurd rays over all my adolescent thoughts, and I felt the way we all long to feel: moody, lonely, lovesick and explosive with the prospects of tomorrow.

Within a week I walked the streets of Tel-Aviv, I wandered around Budapest and found myself admiring the Architecture of Paris. That’s the power of great literature.

What makes a good book? Simply put, a good book is one that you enjoy reading.

Qualcosa che ci sfugge deve pur restare… Perche’ il potere abbia un oggetto su cui esercitarsi, uno spazio in cui allungare le sue braccia… Finche’ so che al mondo c’e’ qualcuno che fa dei giochi...

I have falling in love with reading.

Surround yourself with music. Just be sure to turn the radio on.

We spend our lives waiting for our book and it never comes.

The reader became the book; and summer nightWas like the conscious being of the book.

But, how do you know if an ending is truly good for the characters unless you’ve traveled with them through every page?

Maybe this is why we read, and why in moments of darkness we return to books: to find words for what we already know.

Reading gives liberty to your mind.

Reading that pleases and profits, that together delights and instructs, has all that one should desire.

You leave the previous book with idea’s and themes – characters even – caught in the fibers of your clothing – and when you open a new book, they are still with you.

Life is too short to waste your time with bad books.