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...

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...

I’ve played Romeo for Juliet(But in depth)It’s vignettes of silhouettes(And then read)And watched Russian roulette, yeah red SovietYet doing it simultaneouslyWhile dropping down shed oubliettesTurned around and took truth to the head thatLove is the...

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...

Once you read a book it becomes a part of you forever

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

Write like no one is reading.

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 is food for the brain.

It’s remarkable that a device, which fits in your pocket, can hold thousands of books. But a room full of books is an entirely different kind of remarkable.

Reading releases you from the limits of yourself.

The most exciting part of writing a novel is when the characters take control of the story

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

Reading is important. If you know how to read then the whole world opens up to you

What is reading, but silent conversation.

The best gift you can give me is a book.

If you wanted to be average, you would not be reading this book.

I’m a reader who uses fiction as a way of worrying about life.

The true birthplace is that wherein for the first time one looks intelligently upon oneself; my first homelands have been books, and to a lesser degree schools.

… l’unica compagnia erano le pagine con le orecchie dei suoi romanzi, mentre se ne stava seduta con aria imbronciata sulla poltrona

Great writers wield their words like a weapon; a double-edged sword to strike their readers with truth where they least expect it. -Matthew D. Forgenti

I have good reason to be content,for thank God I can read andperhaps understand Shakespeare to his depths.

One of the ironies of college is that the impossibility of reading your way out of the modern predicament is something you learn about, as a student, by reading. Part of the value of a...

We tell ourselves stories in order to live.

Every time a written word is put to page it is the opportunity to expand our minds, whether we are the writer or the reader. Enjoy the journey wherever it may take you!

Deux choses donnent du sens à la vie : les livres et l’amour.

Sometimes I just want to shout, “READ ALL MY FAVORITE BOOKS!

The first time I read an excellent book, it is to me just as if I had gained a new friend. When I read a book over I have perused before, it resembles the meeting...

The pen, a double-edged mystery: cuts the writer, heals the reader.

Reading a great work of literature can truly be likened to having a conversation with a great mind.

We profit little by books we do not enjoy.

I remember that story. You have read it four times.” Samson shrugged. “Why should I stop with the first reading? Nobody says, ‘That was a fine piece of music. I’ll never listen to that again.”...

It is when we are faced with death that we turn most bookish.

To read a novel is to wonder constantly, even at moments when we lose ourselves most deeply in the book: How much of this is fantasy, and how much is real?

No one knows as well as I how much nonsense is printed in books.

..books look as if they contain knowledge, while e-readers look as if they contain information.

The nature of poemsIs a matter of words and deedsAn intimate encounter of voiceIn the ache of the heartIn the labor of breathingA hesitant casting of eyesAway from the mundane to seeThat delicate and shiny...

…he had to comfort himself with the firm conviction that most of what he objected to in Mohawk and the world at large was not the result of people reading the wrong books, but rather...

A newspaper is an oversized book with adverts and an expiry date.

Reading messed with my brain in an unaccountable way. It made me happy; or something.

If I am alive this is my book, and my father lives now in the afterlife that is a book, a thing not vague or virtual but something you can hold and feel and smell...

Eddie Carroll had just come in from outside, and read Noonan’s letter standing in the mudroom. He flipped to the beginning of the story. He stood reading for almost five minutes before noticing he was...

Only a generation of readers will span a generation of writers.

Much better he should read for the first half of his life and then live for the next half. That’s the proper sequence to know what you’re doing. Nowadays, they start off by living and...

I often find that a novel, even a well-written and compelling novel, can become a blur to me soon after I’ve finished reading it. I recollect perfectly the feeling of reading it, the mood I...

You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

After all, that’s why we read historical fiction-to be transported to another time, and to be astonished at ancient people’s lives and traditions, just as they would probably be astonished at ours.

His gaze settles on the discarded book. He leans, reaching until his fingertips graze Dante’s Inferno, still on its bed of folded sheets. “What have we here?” he asks.”Required reading,” I say.”It’s a shame they...

He said it was the kind of book you made your own.