Conchpore is real. It is as real as Malgudi, Brahmpur, Lilliput or Macondo. And also as real as San Francisco, Madurai, Edinburgh, Gaborone or Tokyo. You know that fictional towns exist. You visit them all...

Some people claim that it is okay to read trashy novels because sometimes you can find something valuable in them. You can also find a crust of bread in a garbage can, if you search...

The things that change your life are: the people you meet, the classes you take, and the books you read.

Reading is a source of liberation. Children who are taught to read early on, are commonly taught to communicate in other significant verbal and nonverbal ways.

Reading releases you from the limits of yourself.

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

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...

each copy of a book has its own unique personality. Reading a book from the library is not the same as reading another copy of the same book from the same library, which is again...

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The books brought brilliance to my life, and they brought an understanding: Life is a story. Everything that has happened and will happen to me is all part of the story of this enchanted place...

When reading a book, you are sold what some writer thought. When reading a newspaper, you are sold what someone did, and, what some advertiser made.

I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.

Reading is one of the greatest gifts given to humankind.

Time machines, magic portals, transporters, worm holes, flying carpets, relocation charms—such things do exist. They’re called books.

To read is to struggle to name, to subject the sentences of a text to a semantic transformation. This transformation is erratic; it consists in hesitating among several names: if we are told that Sarrasine...

A child’s reading is guided by pleasure, but his pleasure is undifferentiated; he cannot distinguish, for example, between aesthetic pleasure and the pleasures of learning or daydreaming. In adolescence we realize that there are different...

Everything in the world exists in order to end up as a book.

Do you know why books such as this are so important? Because they have quality. And what does the word quality mean? To me it means texture. This book has pores. It has features. This...

The time spent rereading one book is one less new story I’ll be exposed to in my life.

When you’re young, you keep reading new writers and you keep changing your mind about how you ought to sound.

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.

A writer only begins a book. A reader finishes it.

We, as we read, must become Greeks, Romans, Turks, priest and king, martyr and executioner; must fasten these images to some reality in our secret experience, or we shall learn nothing rightly.

Some like to sleep. Some like to read late into the night without catching a wink. In a world of dreamers, both are essential.

These programs and reading series are the fruit of an intellectually exhausted literacy industry that lost its way long ago, even as we mutely accepted its misguided agenda – to complicate reading and literacy so...

I do believe that characters in novels belong to their writers and their readers pretty equally. I’ve learned a lot of things about the characters I write from people who read about them. Readers expand...

Last reason for reading horror: it’s a rehearsal for death. It’s a way to get ready. People say there’s nothing sure but death and taxes. But that’s not really true. There’s really only death, you...

It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between.

We are all becoming monologuers

With the sound of gusting wind in the branches of the language trees of Babel, the words gave way like leaves, and every reader glimpsed another reality hidden in the foilage.

It’s Not About You, Mr. Santa Claus

You’ll never be alone if you’ve got a book.

Literature is my sandbox. In it I play, build my forts and castles, spend glorious time. It is the world outside that box that gives me trouble. I have adapted tamely, though not conventionally, to...

We read in slow, long motions, as if drifting in space, weightless. We read full of prejudice, malignantly. We read generously, making excuses for the text, filling gaps, mending faults. And sometimes, when the stars...

Famous Writers Who Loathe E-Books,” reflects or caters to a silly idea: that not being interested in using a particular technology is the same as hating and despising it.

1.Lesen ist ein bloßes Surrogat des eigenen Denkens. Man läßt dabei seine Gedanken von dem Andern am Gängelbande führen. […] Lesen soll man nur dann, wann auch die Quelle der eigenen Gedanken stockt; was auch...

Lately, because computer technology has made self-publishing an easier and less expensive venture, I’m getting a lot of review copies of amateur books by writers who would be better advised to hone their craft before...

The atmosphere of my faith brightens with every Christ-centered book I read.

What’s the use trying to read Shakespeare, especially in one of those little paper editions whose pages get ruffled, or stuck together with sea-water?

I have never been able to resist a book about books.

Never give up. Dare to Dream. Dare to believe.

Reading is accumulating knowledge. But not only that. Reading offers us every day what religion promises us for a posthumous and improbable future: the possibility of living beyond what our lifetime allows us to.

I love the place; the magnificent books; I require books as I require air.

I libri non sono un passatempo. Parlano di altre vite. Di altri mondi. Altro che far passare il tempo, Sir Kevin; non so cosa darei per averne di più.

To read narrowly and shallowly is to read from a place of ignorance.

There’s so much to learn. So much to enjoy. So terribly much to be curious about. Take your life and run with it. Make a habit of being alive. This much of anything, I have...

I didn’t want to die – not before I’d finished reading The Return of the Native anyhow.

One reads so as not to believe everything one reads.

I have a rule that I don’t read my press, but then somebody in the crew will be reading it and of course it’s right there, so what do you think I do?

I never read. I just look at pictures.