Ten minutes of careful searching later, Maelyn faced the dismal truth – she was bookless.

Entering a novel is like going on a climb in the mountains: you have to learn the rhythm of respiration, acquire the pace; otherwise you stop right away.

The library was a little old shabby place. Francie thought it was beautiful. The feeling she had about it was as good as the feeling she had about church. She pushed open the door and...

The amount of excitement when you say hi will be paid back when you say bye!

The more imagination the reader has, being an untrained reader, the more he will do for himself. He will, at a mere hint from the author, flood wretched material with suggestion and never guess that...

Happiness is not to be found in someone, but to be generated with someone

I was impressed for the ten thousandth time by the fact that literature illuminates life only for those to whom books are a necessity. Books are unconvertible assets, to be passed on only to those...

A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.

Maybe this is why we read, and why in moments of darkness we return to books: to find words for what we already know.

How can you not love reading? It’s wonderful. An excursion, an adventure… an escape from reality.’ She adored reading and had a hard time grasping anyone not loving it.

How is it that, a full two centuries after Jane Austen finished her manuscript, we come to the world of Pride and Prejudice and find ourselves transcending customs, strictures, time, mores, to arrive at a...

Read history, works of truth, not novels and romances

The way I see it: Why get out of bed when you can read about people who got out of bed?

When I am about to embark on a difficult journey, I comfort myself by reading the accounts of the great nineteenth-century travellers, men like Stanley, Burton, Speke, Burckhardt and Barth.

I spend money on convenient, comfortable and luxurious things; I spend money on books too.

There are a couple of carp fishing books I’ve been reading. I’m very interested in that line of books, because I think they write very well, carp anglers, about the general environment.

It makes sense. It’s all there. Everything that’s beautiful or wise or significant has been written down at some time or other. How can anybody have the gall or the self-satisfaction to ignore all that?...

See, she goes places when she reads. I know all about that. When I’m reading, wherever I am, I’m always somewhere else.

My reading list grows exponentially. Every time I read a book, it’ll mention three other books I feel I have to read. It’s like a particularly relentless series of pop-up ads.

Only in some very special cases is comprehension the point of reading–in things like recipes and “reading material.” The point of reading is understanding, and comprehension is to understanding as getting wet is to swimming....

Read for yourselves, read for the sake of your inspiration, for the sweet turmoil in your lovely head. But also read against yourselves, read for questioning and impotence, for despair and erudition, read the dry...

But after all we are not children, not illiterate juvenile delinquents, not English public school boys who after a night of homosexual romps have to endure the paradox of reading the Ancients in expurgated versions.

I need to read more.

The paradox of reading is that the path toward ourselves passes through books, but that this must remain a passage. It is a traversal of books that a good reader engages in – a reader...

I like to be aware of a book as a piece of writing, and aware of its structure as a product of mind, and yet I want to be able to see the represented world...

Part of the pleasure has to do with a sense of efficiency, of materials exactly allocated and completely used. Another part has to do with a sense of inevitability, the feeling that someone knew where...

The peace of God is with them whose mind and soul are in harmony, who are free from desire and wrath, who know their own soul.

Reading is an addiction that I adore.

One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.

letters”. Those letters are either delivered—they connect with an audience—or they don’t. For some, that audience is a few thousand college professors and some critics. For others, its twenty million women desperate for romance in...

Lezen hielp – de papieren wereld bood houvast die ik in de echte niet had. Boeken leerden me dat er een werkelijkheid was voorbij deze, wat troost bood. Perspectief. Ze lieten me zien wie ik...

I was raised among books, making invisible friends in pages that seemed cast from dust and whose smell I carry on my hands to this day.

Reading takes the reader to faraway lands, new cultures, new and exciting adventures; you meet new friends and enemies; it takes the reader from the heights of the imagination to the depths of human emotions;...

With a library you are free, not confined by temporary political climates. It is the most democratic of institutions because no one – but no one at all – can tell you what to read...

Long books, when read, are usually overpraised, because the reader wishes to convince others and himself that he has not wasted his time.

The influence of early books is profound. So much of the future lies on the shelves. Early reading has more influence than any religious teaching.

What’s strange about the whole thing is that although it’s riddled with nonsense, altogether it’s true – Julie’s told our story, mine and hers, our friendship, so truthfully. It is us. We even had the...

Ahhh. Bed, book, kitten, sandwich. All one needed in life, really.

Every book is a revolution. Books are our ticket out of boredom, despair, loneliness—but also ignorance.

In terms of the idea of long-term occupation – I have been reading a little bit more about this period – and you can see in that occupation are many lessons for the current occupation...

The end of reading is not more books but more life.

…I tell myself it does not matter what one reads–favorite authors, particular themes–as long as we read something. It is not even important to own the books.

An average man is egoistic, proud and has strong self esteem. They always require partners who massage their ego not those who will drag their ego to the mud.

Are you the fruit of redemption? If yes, then make a delightful noise unto Him.

Life is short, but art is long. Sophocles is dead, but Oedipus lives on…Each of us when we read a great piece of literature is a little more human than befor

You have what I can afford to give. You are a panhandler, begging for anything, and I am the man walking briskly by, tossing a quarter or so into your paper cup. I can afford...

I have very positive memories of reading biographies of unusual Americans as a child.

Children’s reading and children’s thinking are the rock-bottom base upon which this country will rise. Or not rise. In these days of tension and confusion, writers are beginning to realize that books for children have...

Già nella vetrina della libreria hai individuato la copertina col titolo che cercavi. Seguendo questa traccia visiva ti sei fatto largo nel negozio attraverso il fitto sbarramento di Libri Che Non Hai Letto che ti...

I always seem to be reading several books at once.