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...

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.

…ending a book with a sequel in such a way that the reader still has faith in the characters and in the writer. That’s finesse.

To long to read.

The taste for books was an early one. As a child he was sometimes found at midnight by a page still reading. They took his taper away, and he bred glow-worms to serve his purpose....

It is not just bookstores and libraries that are disappearing but museums, theaters, performing arts centers, art and music schools— all those places where I felt at home have joined the list of endangered species....

Time cleaning was less time reading, so I usually just did the minimal amount, and left it for another day, a day that would never come.

The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency — the belief that the here and now is all there is.

We are in the middle of the biggest revolution in reading and writing since the advent of the Gutenberg press.

I read nonfiction.”She reared back as if offended.

Once he’d asked, “Don’t you want to read? There are hundreds of books in the sitting room.”She had laughed and said, “I’ve read them all. I want to remember them the way they were. If...

Literature cannot be imposed; it must be discovered.

More people should visit Antarctica, metaphorically speaking, on their own. That is one of the conclusions I have reached, one of my recommendations: explore something, even if it’s just a bookshelf. Make a stab in...

she kept sliding down, in small half-willing surrenders, till she was a heap, with the book held tiringly above her face.

Reading nurtures the soul, and an enlightened friend brings it solace.

There’s a story behind every Bookworm”!

I wish to deal only with the masterpieces which the consensus of opinion for a long time has accepted as supreme. We are all supposed to have read them; it is a pity that so...

Without imagination, there would be no creativity. Without creativity, there would be nothing.

The endless piles of genre fiction are the key to happiness. They’re the key to picking out the things that actually make you happy in this world instead of the things that you’re told are...

Reading is like a bridge which fills the gap between the real world and the imaginations.

Rainy days should be spent at home with a cup of tea and a good book.

I see all of us reading ourselves away from ourselves, straining in circles of light to find more light until the line of words becomes a trail of crumbs that we follow across a page...

Make a new friend by picking up a book and getting to know it!

Books were my passion and my escape from madness.

Book should go where they will be most appreciated, and not sit unread, gathering dust on a forgotten shelf, don’t you agree?

Contemporary writers annoyed him, he found their worlds insular, their style too self-conscious and ironic. Theirs was not a literature that belonged to him.

People that read fucking books don’t take action!

Read to lead in order to succeed.

She thought it must be a lonely life for a boy who hated books.

Read! Write! Imagine! Create! Love! Live!

I’ve always found that the better the book I’m reading, the smarter I feel, or, at least, the more able I am to imagine that I might, someday, become smarter.

It looks too new and pristine ever to have been read by anyone else, but it has been: it keeps falling open at the most delightful places as the ghost of its former owner points...

You are not permitted to suffer what others suffer, you are not permitted to fail or die young.

Most people have a list of 100 books to read before they die, or 100 places to visit. Not me. I have a list of 100 birthdays to see. No need to write them down,...

Reading brings us unknown friends.

She remembered one of her boyfriends asking, offhandedly, how many books she read in a year. “A few hundred,” she said.”How do you have the time?” he asked, gobsmacked.She narrowed her eyes and considered the...

I wouldn’t read Jarod’s writing—not even if he paid me to read it. And he does pay me to read his writing, but that doesn’t mean I do.” Of course the quote continued on, but...

A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.

I wish the military were the militerary. Less fighting and more reading.

How to read “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone”? Why, very quickly, to begin with, and perhaps also to make an end. Why read it? Presumably, if you cannot be persuaded to read anything better,...

When someone tells me they don’t read, I like to walk up to them and stroke their hair, pet it really, because you know who also doesn’t read? My cat. In essence, these people are...

I keep my motivational book collection in the fridge. Hey, Who Moved My Cheese?! Did somebody let grandpa out of his cage again?

Books; I repeat, for they’ve not only been a solace during the long years but also provided the keys to understanding other people’s ideas and achievements, their hopes and fears, quirks and foibles, their dreams…..their...

And reading this way – with no deadline, no agenda – she remembered why she loved literature so much. It was like fucking a new man and knowing that he had made other women come,...