Stranger, pause and look;From the dust of agesLift this little book,Turn the tattered pages,Read me, do not let me die!Search the fading letters findingSteadfast in the broken bindingAll that once was I!

The use, not the reading, of books makes us wise.

It’s not macho to read? Nonsense. Reading is a stouthearted activity, disporting courage, keenness, stick-to-itness. It is also, in my experience, one of the most thrilling and enduring delights of life, equal to a home...

If you don’t like to read, you haven’t found the right book.

Perhaps a book becomes a classic in proportion to how broadly its characters can be scavenged, how many readers find within it something they experience as desirable or even intimately necessary.

This poetry is utilitarian—heavy-duty, industrial strength poetry. It is meant to be read aloud and, even better, memorized and recited. It is best used in the natural world where there are starlit skies, the warmth...

Owning a book is a third of the goal. The others are actually reading it and applying it.

Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.

You are reading me; over the boundary of time and distance, I am touching you, not with my hands but with my love.

You recreate your world to your taste with God’s Word in your mouth.

A woman can tolerate delays knowing they are not denials; she is diligent, and composed. She is not easily irritated like love; she endures all things, beans all things and can be stretched to any...

But the main reason you should read this is that I don’t see why I should have to know all these terrible, terrible things and you should get off scot free.

She never managed to find herself in these books no matter how hard she tried, exhuming traits from between the pages and donning them for an hour, a day, a week. We think in some...

You can read until you’re blue in the face, but I’d recommend writing until you’re red in the face. And ass.

Reading is going toward something that is about to be, and no one yet knows what it will be.

Robert was the owner and the Executive Director for 99 Red Balloons Japan Inc and entertainment and event company that provided entertainers decorations for promotions, special events, advertising, and for English language instruction at primary...

Read deeply, not to believe, not to accept, not to contradict, but to learn to share in that one nature that writes and reads.

Learn how to read by taking small sips first. Drink my watery literary nipples.

I’d like to write gibberish in Latin, because if people aren’t going to be able to read it, they might as well not read it in a dead language.

We human beings build houses because we’re alive but we write books because we’re mortal. We live in groups because we’re sociable but we read because we know we’re alone. Reading offers a kind of...

I preferred the world of imagination to the death of sleep

I like the sound of words, but I don’t ever really expect my slow, slanted impression of the world to change by what I read.

You’ll want to read books – novels, because ladies are frivolous; poetry because ladies are sentimental; and sermons, because we are pious. If you must read essays, Mr. Emerson might be best. Your gentleman may...

If she were running through the rye, if she were headed towards the abyss, I would grab hold with every ounce of my strength, with every scared beat of my heart, with every thought that...

Even a book can be dangerous in the wrong hands, and when that happens, you blame the hands, but you also read the book.

Once more, he was immersing himself in books, reaching the end of long articles, even going back over paragraphs to make sure he’d grasped things. How much more satisfying it was than all that skimming,...

Who made you Queen of Literacy? Go sit in your car!

Human existence is temporary and all the knowledge of the universe we acquire will in time be forgotten because there will be no humans left to benefit from any of the stuff we learned.And yet,...

My youngest brother had a wonderful schtick from some time in high school, through to graduating medicine. He had a card in his wallet that read, ‘If I am found with amnesia, please give me...

I go to books and to nature as the bee goes to a flower, for a nectar that I can make into my own honey.

Wide reading is important. You don’t have to like it, but it’s important to grapple with things you don’t understand. I’ve been spending the last six months getting up an hour early to try to...

When you are growing up there are two institutional places that affect you most powerfully: the church, which belongs to God, and the public library, which belongs to you. The public library is a great...

Do not say I have no time to read.Set a daily time (15-20 minutes)for reading.Reading is rich source of wisdom and knowledge.

Nothing was truly unbearable if you had something to read.

I am reading The Lord of the Rings. I suddenly wanted to. I almost know it by heart, but I can still sink right into it. I know no other book that is so much...

Growing up, my parents managed to show me the importance of reading without cramming it down my throat. A difficult task, I’m sure. It breaks my heart to think that there are kids out there,...

Anna read and understood, but it was unpleasant to read, that is to say, to follow the reflection of other people’s lives. She was too eager to live herself.

Dear Reader,This book you hold is a treasure, of sorts, as is every book I have ever known.I have made it for you – especially you – for reasons you will understand as my words...

Should he give free reign to his desires, the bibliomaniac can ruin his life along with the lives of his loved ones. He’ll often take better care of his books than of his own health;...

Fortunately, I read (the books) without knowing what I was in for, and the best thing that can ever happen to a reader happened to me: I loved something that, by conviction (or by my...

Reading aloud with children is known to be the single most important activity for building the knowledge and skills they will eventually require for learning to read.

My grandfather once told her if you couldn’t read with cold feet, there wouldn’t be a literate soul in the state of Maine.

Book lovers are not necessarily people lovers.

If you think that I am mad now, then take away my books, and you’ll find I’ve completely gone insane!

Being blind is the worst possible thing and asking me to read and write no more is torture.

I believe that reading and writing are the most nourishing forms of meditation anyone has so far found. By reading the writings of the most interesting minds in history, we meditate with our own minds...

My father thinks reading is a waste of time.” Hunter thought her father was a waste of space.

. . .sometimes reading the same page over and over, until one sleepy afternoon something clicked, like a lock unlocking, and she saw those printed doors swing open on a vast house of words.

Reading is probably another way of being in a place.

I’m a book girl–I love all the stories the world has to offer. No matter the book, I will taste it and drink it down.