The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose.

You don’t read to exercise the mind but to take voyages

Clearly, you underestimate my relationship with wine and what I do on the weekends when I’m by myself reading.

Man is what he reads.

I walked to the bookcase and examined the storybooks inside. As a girl, I had dreamed of having stacks of books at my disposal–stories to get lost in, other worlds to live in when mine...

I now remembered that Mrs. Todd had told me one day that Captain Littlepage had overset his mind with too much reading.

It’s always so cool to think you are looking at today is something other people have been looking at for centuries. It’s the closest I’ve come to touching immortality, by reading the words of dead...

When you read to a child, when you put a book in a child’s hands, you are bringing that child news of the infinitely varied nature of life. You are an awakener.

… be knygų jau nebegalėjau apsieiti. Ne tiek be knygų, kiek be paties skaitymo. Mano akys į nieką daugiau nenorėjo žiūrėti, jos tiesiog šaukte šaukė: ,,Duok mums raidžių!.. Duok mums raidžių!..” Nežinau, gal yra tokia...

You read, move your lips, figure out the words, and it’s like you’re in two places at the same time: you’re sitting or lying with your legs curled up, your hand groping in the bowl,...

It’s not enough to know what all the words mean,” he continued. “A good reader starts to see what an entire book is trying to say. And then a good reader will have something to...

For me, stories are like WD-40 for the brain: they keep all the wheels and gears and clicky-things running smoothly. Without them, cognitive function becomes a bore.

But I too hate long books: the better, the worse. If they’re bad they merely make me pant with the effort of holding them up for a few minutes. But if they’re good, I turn...

Libraries are always bigger on the inside because every book has an entire word inside of it.

It’s tempting to say the Ph.D. didn’t have an effect, but it’s not so. I think whatever resonance I may be able to achieve is in part simply from the amount of reading and learning...

Maelyn smiled. If books could have litters, she’d be just as happy.

Until then I had thought each book spoke of the things, human or divine, that lie outside books. Now I realized that not infrequently books speak of books: it is as if they spoke among...

Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

We shouldn’t ask if life has a meaning, we should ask to whom life has what kinds of meanings

Even if it is a vice to read science fiction, those who cannot understand the very temptation to that vice will not be likely to tell us anything of value about it.

Life is a journey where people travel through each other’s memories. If you want to keep a secret well, keep it from yourself

A book read by a thousand different people is a thousand different books.

So — I confess I have been a rake at reading. I have read those things which I ought not to have read, and I have not read those things which I ought to have...

We can imagine the books we’d like to read, even if they have not yet been written, and we can imagine libraries full of books we would like to possess, even if they are well...

If you are too busy to read, you are too busy.

…the point, the essential quality of the act of reading, now and always, is that it tends to no foreseeable end, to no conclusion. Every reading prolongs another, begun in some afternoon thousands of years...

We buy books because we believe we’re buying the time to read them.[Inside Out (VH1)]

Deprived of their newspapers or a novel, reading-addicts will fall back onto cookery books, on the literature which is wrapped around bottles of patent medicine, on those instructions for keeping the contents crisp which are...

Leaders are readers, disciples want to be taught and everyone has gifts within that need to be coached to excellence.

The books we read help to shape who we are. Reading offers us, as children, our first independence- allowing us to travel far beyond the confines of our immediate world. Books introduce us to great...

I rejoice to concur with the common reader; for by the common sense of readers, uncorrupted by literary prejudices, after all the refinements of subtilty and the dogmatism of learning, must be finally decided all...

People who love books never have spare time!

That’s why literature is so fascinating. It’s always up for interpretation, and could be a hundred different things to a hundred different people. It’s never the same thing twice.

The attraction of reading is that it allows you to live, for a few hours, as someone else—grants you access to their head, their thoughts, their secrets.

Books are like truth serum– if you don’t read, you can’t figure out what’s real.

The average buyer in bookshop spends 8 seconds on the front cover and 15 seconds on the back cover before deciding whether to purchase the book or not. On average, he does not get past...

She is a great gobbler of books, but reads only trash, memorizing nothing and leaving out the longer descriptions.

What is more important to a library than anything else — than everything else — is the fact that it exists.”[The Premise Of Meaning, American Scholar; Washington, DC, June 5, 1972]

To speak without shame about books we haven’t read, we would thus do well to free ourselves of the oppressive image of cultural literacy without gaps, as transmitted and imposed by family and school, for...

She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.

When it comes to literature, we are all groping in the dark, even the writer. Especially the writer. And that is a good thing–maybe one of the best things about literature. It’s always an adventure...

I do not want to just read books; I want to crawl inside them and live there.

plan” was for taking down the Christmas tree.

She read her way around the library, hungry for journeys, adventures, laughter and passion. She took each new book to bed like a lover, savouring every chapter, going too far some nights until the letters...

A good book is hard to read, on account of how often it makes you stop and think.

A half-read book is a half-finished love affair.

Few things leave a deeper mark on the reader, than the first book that finds its way to his heart.

Everybody is a book of blood; wherever we’re opened, we’re red.

[…] students should be told that an effort is always required, when you start to read a serious author, to overcome mental laziness and reluctance, because you are about to enter the mind of someone...

What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.