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.

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...

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

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.

What is reading, but silent conversation.

The best gift you can give me is a book.

This is what books only aimed to do and never could. Give you the glint of someone else’s sunrise, what living is really like, you get old and it hurts to bend your elbow; your...

Want to get your kids to read more? Try making books easily accessible. Put them where kids can easily reach and don’t make them off limits. (within reason)

Reading was not an escape for her, any more than it is for me. It was an aspect of direct experience. She distinguished, of course, between the fictional world and the real one, in which...

Reading is awesome and flexible and fits around chores and earning money and building the future and whatever else I’m doing that day. My attitude towards reading is entirely Epicurean—reading is pleasure and I pursue...

Listening to Led Zeppelin’s Heartbreaker while reading your own book, sipping a beer after midnight, is a satisfying feeling…however fleeting.

Or, you say that this business of marking books is going to slow up your reading. It probably will. That’s one of the reasons for doing it. Most of us have been taken in by...

I went to the big Picasso retrospective at the Tate in the sixties, and I think I went to an Andy Warhol retrospective at the Tate in the sixties, too. My mother was very good...

The first book I ever read that made me cry. I was seven and hadn’t realized books could do that. Just finish you like that. I was sitting in a beanbag chair in the school...

She loved sinking into her bed on evenings like this, but apparently she shouldn’t, because it worried her aunts, who thought she ought to be out dancing. It worried her a little bit, too, because...

I regretted my human form briefly; it would be so much easier to drag and rope information into the brain as neatly as one dragged and dropped information on the computer. Perhaps I was suffering...

Over the years I have collected so many books that, in aggregate, they can fairly be called a library.I don’t know what percentage of them I have read. Increasingly I wonder how many of them...

Without a doubt,I must read,all the booksI’ve read about.See the artworkshung on hooks,that I have only,seen in books.

Books allow one to jump into another person’s imagination while also exploring their own!

…through reading, the modern man succeeds in obtaining an “escape from time” comparable to the “emegence from time” effected by myths. (…) Reading projects him out if his personal duration and incorporates him into other...

People don’t really read your books, they only say they do, to keep you from feeling bad.

A censor is an expert in cutting remarks. A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to.

Reading, for pleasure and knowledge, has always been, will always be one of my favorite things to do. (Larry Brown: A Writer’s Life by Jean W. Cash)

Terás então de ler doutra maneira, Como, Não serve a mesma para todos, cada um inventa a sua, a que lhe for própria, há quem leve a vida inteira a ler sem nunca ter conseguido...

More books.” His eyes went wide. “You have, like, then books you just said you haven’t read.””Doesn’t mean I won’t get more books.” I smiled at is incredulous expression. “I haven’t been able to read...

I’m only happy when I forget to exist. When just my eyes or my ears or my skin exist.

Exposition is a mode of thought, a method of learning, and a means of expression. Almost all of the characteristics we associate with mature discourse were amplified by typography, which has the strongest possible bias...

I read everything in that dusty little library. I read the prologues and the epilogues until I could tell you how many times Stephen King thanked his wife, Tabitha. I could tell you how the...

Sometimes it is the reader that sucks, not the book.

Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are...

We are raised to honor all the wrong explorers and discoverers – thieves planting flags, murderers carrying crosses. Let us at last praise the colonizers of dreams.

I read so I might live a thousand lives in a lifetime. I write to control the particulars in those lives.

It was a surprise, and a delight, to see children devour books. Without ever knowing it, they were receiving an education.

To read is to translate, for no two persons’ experiences are the same. A bad reader is like a bad translator: he interprets literally when he ought to paraphrase and paraphrases when he ought to...

The world exists to end up in a book.

You may have tangible wealth untold; caskets of jewels and coffers of gold. Richer than I you can never be. I had a mother who read to me.

Ah, how good it is to be among people who are reading.

I’m old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised.

The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them.

The only end of writing is to enable readers better to enjoy life or better to endure it.