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...

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.

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.

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...

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.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Tyler : Book #4 The Hunter Brothers Series.” iBooks. This material may be protected by copyright.

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...