It was words and reading that had made me quiet, and being quiet had made me a mark.

No one reads; if someone does read, he doesn’t understand; if he understands, he immediately forgets.

Readers who wish to follow Whim rather than whim–readers who have learned enough about what he or she really thrives on to seek more of it–the first lesson must be in humility. . . ....

A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.

I even love the smell of books.

And he read Principles of Accounting all morning, but just to make it interesting, he put lots of dragons in it.

It can’t be supposed,” said Joe. “Tho’ I’m oncommon fond of reading, too.”Are you, Joe?”Oncommon. Give me,” said Joe, “a good book, or a good newspaper, and sit me down afore a good fire, and...

Of course I do. But I always feel guilty when that happens. After all, my journal is the oldest and most loyal friend I have. And it never interrupts me when I’m speaking,” he added,...

Reading gives liberty to your mind.

An author is a trigger to our own imaginations. We either go along for the ride, or we flinch and look the other way. Don’t look the other way. Embrace the story, embrace the characters,...

Master those books you have. Read them thoroughly. Bathe in them until they saturate you. Read and reread them…digest them. Let them go into your very self. Peruse a good book several times and make...

There is nothing more luxurious than eating while you read—unless it be reading while you eat. Amabel did both: they are not the same thing, as you will see if you think the matter over.

When you find that one book, that one that makes you tingle. It’s almost like you found a little piece of magic.

When you sell a man a book you don’t sell him just twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue – you sell him a whole new life. Love and friendship and humour and ships...

Xas sighed. “But I don’t want to talk about God. Why do I? Sometimes I feel God is all over me like a pollen and I go about pollinating things with God.”Sobran opened his eyes...

It was exactly the sort of thing I needed to be reading that afternoon: a story where, no matter how bad things got, you knew everything was going to turn out fine in the end.

Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody can read.”[As quoted in Literary Censorship in England (in Current Opinion, Vol. 55, No. 5, November 1913)]

There’s no such thing as a kid who hates reading. There are kids who love reading, and kids who are reading the wrong books.

Think before you speak. Read before you think.

A good book is always on tap; it may be decanted and drunk a hundred times, and it is still there for further imbibement.

There are good reasons to learn how to read. Poetry isn’t one of them… Why can’t poets just say what they want to say and then shut up?

Untuk bisa membaca banyak buku diperlukan dua hal dimana uang dan waktu tidak termasuk diantaranya. Dua hal tersebut adalah gairah dan kerendahan hati bahwa kita banyak tak tahu.

Man is like a bride unto God. God is jealous when man veers away from Him.

We have all met a class of men, very remarkable for their activity, and who yet make but little headway in life; men who, in their noisy and impulsive pursuit of knowledge, never get beyond...

Blíndur er bóklaus ma∂ur. Blind is a man without a book.

I generally read every night befi=ore I fall asleep: Brad does too. I find it comforting to lie beside my husband, each of us with a book in our hands. I see it as a...

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.

Long novels written today are perhaps a contradiction: the dimension of time has been shattered, we cannot love or think except in fragments of time each of which goes off along its own trajectory and...

My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.

I turn to Mrs. Kasperek; this feels urgent to me. “Do you know what Caliban says when he wants to take away Prospero’s magic? ‘Remember, first to possess his books; for without them he’s but...

I could not resist the clarity of the world in books, the incredibly satisfying way in which life became weighty and accessible. Books were reality. I hadn’t made up my own mind about my own...

Through a history book, I can time travel. Especially a history book from the future.

But reading is different, reading is something you do. With TV, and cinema for that matter, everything’s handed to you on a plate, nothing has to be worked at, they just spoon-feed you. The picture,...

For me to see is to read. It has always been that way.

Reading is action. Even though it is often done quietly and alone, reading is a profoundly social activity, and a vigorous and demanding one. There is nothing passive about reading; it requires attention, energy, an...

If you’re writing a song, you have to write something that can be understood serially. When you’re reading a poem that’s written for the page, your eye can skip up and down. You can see...

But history, real solemn history, I cannot be interested in. Can you?””Yes, I am fond of history.””I wish I were too. I read it a little as a duty, but it tells me nothing that...

Readers are the glue that binds the books together.

My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.

I’m not in the business of reading tea leaves. I don’t have a crystal ball.

Some say they get lost in books, but I find myself, again and again, in the pages of a good book. Humanly speaking, there is no greater teacher, no greater therapist, no greater healer of...

In books I found explicitly, flamboyantly, everything censored in life.

I took the volume to a table, opened its soft, ivory pages… and fell into it as into a pool during dry season.

Reading things that are relevant to the facts of your life is of limited value. The facts are, after all, only the facts, and the yearning passionate part of you will not be met there....

And all I did was read, and when I was too high to read I stared out the windows.

Bücher hatten einfach etwas Sympathisches, ihre bloße Existenz war erfreulich.

The problem with a life spent reading is you know too much.

There is a generation of skimmers. It’s not that they don’t want to read in-depth content, but they want to evaluate what the content is before they commit time. Especially on a mobile phone –...

At the sight of a good book, you just can’t walk away but to claim and read it.

Easy reading is damn hard writing.