Sono convinto che chi non legge resta uno stupido. Anche se nella vita sa destreggiarsi, il fatto di non ingerire regolarmente parole scritte lo condanna ineluttabilmente all’ignoranza, indipendentemente dai suoi averi e dalle sue attività.

Congratulations on the new library, because it isn’t just a library. It is a space ship that will take you to the farthest reaches of the Universe, a time machine that will take you to...

I already read everything. I read poems and plays and novels and newspapers and comic books and magazines. I read tins in supermarkets and leaflets that come through the door, unsolicited mail. None of it...

I appreciate a book intended to be judged by its cover. The insincere readers are often weeded out while the sincere readers remain curious.

I love fortune readings! because when I get in troubles, if the reading says that I am in a lucky day, I can think my troubles are just some kind of mistakes, and if the...

I do not mean to object to a thorough knowledge of the famous works we read. I object only to the interminable comments and bewildering criticisms that teach but one thing: there are as many...

Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and...

When a man finds this kind of woman, he will go all out for her knowing that she will not be a letdown.

He is the only option for better living.

I do not read a book; I hold a conversation with the author.

Do you ever hide books you’ve read over and over again because you’re so sick of them?”Oh, definitely. When they ask for them, I say the book fairy came to get it. One time they...

This is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you’re not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.

Isn’t it odd how much fatter a book gets when you’ve read it several times?” Mo had said…”As if something were left between the pages every time you read it. Feelings, thoughts, sounds, smells…and then,...

I am the man who comes and goes between the bar and the telephone booth. Or, rather:that man is called ‘I’ and you know nothing else about him, just as this station is called only...

First, relax. … And my second helpful hint is that you should not try to memorize anything you read in this book. … My two words of advice are exemplified in what I call the...

One can fight money only with money! from my Tale Of The Rock Pieces.

My grandpa never read the newspaper. Not because he was particularly optimistic, but because he was illiterate. He taught me to read by watching TV.

I see something of a comrade in you. You like a book. Silent revelation on a page pleases you better than a self-bolstering display of verbal spillage. What do you see in me?

Just as hunters will mount the heads of the kills, white people need to let people know that they have made their way to hundreds or even thousands of books. After all, what’s the point...

People wonder why the novel is the most popular form of literature; people wonder why it is read more than books of science or books of metaphysics. The reason is very simple; it is merely...

The great opposition to reading is what I allow to fill my time instead of reading. To say we have no time to read is not really true; we simply have chosen to use our...

The notions of a young man of one or two and twenty,’ said he, ‘as to what is necessary in manners to make him quite the thing, are more absurd, I believe, than those of...

Books are love letters (or apologies) passed between us, adding a layer of conversation beyond our spoken words.

I love vast libraries; yet there is a doubt,If one be better with them or without,Unless he use them wisely, and, indeed,Knows the high art of what and how to read.

For six months, then, Emma, at fifteen years of age, made her hands dirty with books from old lending libraries.

Peeing is like a good book in that it is very, very hard to stop once you start.

Ultimately what I like about reading together is that we all make it happen together. Of course even amid shared experience we’re still alone… each reading of each book is unique. But what a comfort...

I think I learned a lot from reading in general – even from reading badly written books.

Learning to Read”: I told the Englishman that my alma mater was books.

I don’t read such boring things. Life is too short.

The world of books captured my heart.

A letter may be coded, and a word may be coded. A theatrical performance may be coded, and a sonnet may be coded, and there are times when it seems the entire world is in...

No skill is more crucial to the future of a child than literacy.

Es, pues, de saber que este sobredicho hidalgo, los ratos que estaba ocioso, que eran los más del año, se daba a leer.

We are never allowed to forget that some books are badly written; we should remember that sometimes they’re badly read, too.

Reading is like skiing. When done well, when done by an expert, both reading and skiing are graceful, harmonious, activities. When done by a beginner, both are awkward, frustrating, and slow. Learning to ski is...

The more you read,the eager you read many more.

As adults we choose our own reading material. Depending on our moods and needs we might read the newspaper, a blockbuster novel, an academic article, a women’s magazine, a comic, a children’s book, or the...

To receive many blessings, read to your children from the womb to the tomb.

Each of us promenades his thought, like a monkey on a leash. When you read, you always have to such monkeys: your own and one belonging to someone else. Or, even worse, a monkey and...

I only read biographies, metaphysics and psychology. I can dream up my own fiction.

Dinner-parties bore us because our imagination is absent, and reading interests us because it is keeping us company.

Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written; I’d rather boast about the ones I’ve read.

It is not in the gene of an Intellectually blinded person to experience the paradise in the writer’s imagination.

Edmund doesn’t solve any of his grievances or personality disorders by going through the wardrobe. If anything, they’re exacerbated and brought to a crisis by his experiences in Narnia. When you go to Narnia, your...

Being well-read is not sufficient, and it isn’t the highest virtue to which we can strive, but it is both necessary and practical. We are, after all, people of the Great Book; no Christian leader...

Censoring books that deal with difficult, adolescent issues does not protect anybody. Quite the opposite. It leaves kids in the darkness and makes them vulnerable. Censorship is the child of fear and the father of...

“” ― Neil Gaiman

When I see great boxers, it’s like reading a wonderful poem.

In all well-written books, there is much that is good which is not dazzling; and these shallow critics should be taught, that it is for the embellishment of the more tame and uninteresting parts of...