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 the time.

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 long enough, but there is a better way.

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

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 much I read. My children laugh at me. They think I’m a book with a couple of legs sticking out.

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 completely different from readingyour own copy of the book.

Don’t just float through life; don’t just agree to anything and everything, have a course you are known for at all times.

Literature is news that stays news.

There are adventures of the spirit and one can travel in books and interest oneself in people and affairs. One need never be dull as long as one has friends to help, gardens to enjoy and books in the long winter evenings.

When I get hold of a book I particularly admire, I am so enthusiastic that I loan it to someone who never brings it back.

Something must always remain that eludes us … For power to have an object on which it can be exercised, a space in which to stretch out its arms … As long as I know there exists in the world someone who does tricks only for the love of the trick, as long as I...

How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.

He didn’t much like reading novels – he preferred history or philosophy – or poetry, although he could read only a little poetry at a time, because when a poem “spoke to him” it was as if a brilliant, agonizing light had been turned upon some tiny, private cell of his soul.

The Cat In The Hat,” I won’t need to protect my sensitive lips anymore.

Jacksonville has more public libraries than people who know how to read.

No man can be called friendless who has God and the companionship of good books.

The text-book is rare that stimulates its reader to ask, Why is this so? Or, How does this connect with what has been read elsewhere?

One of the great things about books is sometimes there are some fantastic pictures.

Luckily, I always travel with a book, just in case I have to wait on line for Santa, or some such inconvenience.

Heaven is a warm cat and a good book.

Winny didn’t know what he would do without his books, except probably go berserk and start killing people and making ashtrays out of their skulls even though he didn’t smoke and never would.

I value my anonymity. I’m happy to come in on the tube or the train and watch other people reading ‘Fifty Shades.’

There is no such thing as a child who hates to read; there are only children who have not found the right book.

Reading teaches us receptivity….It teaches us to receive, in stillness and attentiveness, a voice possessed temporarily, on loan….And as we grow accustomed to receiving books in stillness and attentiveness, so we can grow to receive the world, also possessed temporarily.

I know that books seem like the ultimate thing that’s made by one person, but that’s not true… Every reading of a book is a collaboration between the reader and the writer who are making the story up together.

Everyone’s talking about the death and disappearance of the book as a format and an object. I don’t think that will happen. I think whatever happens, we have to figure out a way to protect our imaginations. Stories and poetry do that. You need a language in this world. People want words, they want to...

But when your heart is tired and dumb, your soul has need of ease,There’s none like the quiet folk who wait in libraries–The counselors who never change, the friends who never go,The old books, the dear books that understand and know!

It only took Alexis a day to read a five-hundred page book. Fiction stories took her to another world where she could lose herself for a while in someone else’s life.Its funny how things like loans to pay back, a broken home and family, and a future to worry about meant nothing to characters who...

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.

The thing about Tolkien, about The Lord of the Rings, is that it’s perfect. It’s this whole world, this whole process of immersion, this journey. It’s not, I’m pretty sure, actually true, but that makes it more amazing, that someone could make it all up. Reading it changes everything.

Storytelling is my passion, and it rises from a love of reading.

Rest, nature, books, music…such is my idea of happiness.

We become the books we read.

Walking into a bookshop is a depressing thing. It’s not the pretentious twats, browsing books as part of their desirable lifestyle. It’s not the scrubby members of staff serving at the counter: the pseudo-hippies and fucking misfits. It’s not the stink of coffee wafting out from somewhere in the building, a concession to the cult...

In Tereza’s eyes, books were the emblems of a secret brotherhood. For she had but a single weapon against the world of crudity surrounding her: the novels. She had read any number of them, from Fielding to Thomas Mann. They not only offered the possibility of an imaginary escape from a life she found unsatisfying;...

As I turned over the last page, a wave of sorrow enveloped me. Where had they all gone, these people who had seemed so real? To distract myself, I walked out into the night; instinctively, I lit a cigarette. In the dark, the cigarette glowed, like a fire lit by a survivor. But who would...

Books crowbar the world open for you.

[Books are] vital to learning. Half the population don’t go to football matches but that doesn’t make football any less important.

I like to read as much as I can from every genre. That way, I can express my love for all writers.

The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library,’The medicines of the soul.

Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot.BY ORDER OF THE AUTHORperG.G., CHIEF OF ORDNANCE

How do you press a wildflower into the pages of an e-book?

Yet the experience of reading a novel has certain qualities that remind us of the traditional apprehension of mythology. It can be seen as a form of meditation. Readers have to live with a novel for days or even weeks. It projects them into another world, parallel to but apart from their ordinary lives. They...

People with Books. What, in 2007, could be more incongruous than that? It makes me want to laugh.”[Afterword]

I bought you something” Willows blurts out.”You bought…What?”Willow closes her eyes for a second. She’s a little surprised she’s going to give it to him after all, but there’s no going back now. She has to.”At the bookstore.” She reaches into her bag again, and pushes the package across the table towards him.Guy takes the...

The American writer and dilettante Logan Pearsall Smith once said: ‘Some people think that life is the thing; but I prefer reading.’ When I first came across this, I thought it witty; now I find it—as I do many aphorisms—a slick untruth. Life and reading are not separate activities. The distinction is false (as it...

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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 – all the dreams and visions and understandings that come to me in my dungeon cell. The books helped me...

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.