Quem não lê, não pensa, e quem não pensa será para sempre um servo.

Write when you can’t stop writing. Read when you stopped writing!

Let All Your Life’s Experiences Lead To More Writing & Encourage More Reading..!

Much is known by reading, more is mastered by doing.

Life is wonderful and strange…and it’s also absolutely mundane and tiresome. It’s hilarious and it’s deadening. It’s a big, screwed-up morass of beauty and change and fear and all our lives we oscillate between awe...

Ivanov had been a party member since 1902. Back then he had tried to write stories in the manner of Tolstoy, Chekhov, Gorky, or rather he had tried to plagiarize them without much success, which...

Books are like friends to me. Words come alive on the page.

You can see the size of people’s dreams from their profit and loss calculations

Reading fiction is important. It is a vital means of imagining a life other than our own, which in turn makes us more empathetic beings. Following complex story lines stretches our brains beyond the 140...

The trick is to teach yourself to read in small sips as well as long swallows.

Reading words puts them in your mind. You never forget. Even when you don’t get a chance to dwell on the music, you can hear it in your head.

If you drop your Kindle in the toilet, you’re done.

I have no feelings of guilt regarding the books I have not read and perhaps will never read; I know that my books have unlimited patience. They will wait for me till the end of...

If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated readings deserves to be read at all.

We were very poor. But between the covers of books I could go anywhere, I could be anybody, I could do anything. I began to read about people of great accomplishment. As I read those...

There were pools of light among the stacks, directly beneath the bulbs which Philip had switched on, but it was now with an unexpected fearfulness that he saw how the books stretched away into the...

Most of what makes a book ‘good’ is that we are reading it at the right moment for us.

The atmosphere of my faith brightens with every Christ-centered book I read.

What’s the use trying to read Shakespeare, especially in one of those little paper editions whose pages get ruffled, or stuck together with sea-water?

I have never been able to resist a book about books.

Never give up. Dare to Dream. Dare to believe.

Reading is accumulating knowledge. But not only that. Reading offers us every day what religion promises us for a posthumous and improbable future: the possibility of living beyond what our lifetime allows us to.

I love the place; the magnificent books; I require books as I require air.

I libri non sono un passatempo. Parlano di altre vite. Di altri mondi. Altro che far passare il tempo, Sir Kevin; non so cosa darei per averne di più.

To read narrowly and shallowly is to read from a place of ignorance.

There’s so much to learn. So much to enjoy. So terribly much to be curious about. Take your life and run with it. Make a habit of being alive. This much of anything, I have...

I didn’t want to die – not before I’d finished reading The Return of the Native anyhow.

One reads so as not to believe everything one reads.

I have a rule that I don’t read my press, but then somebody in the crew will be reading it and of course it’s right there, so what do you think I do?

I never read. I just look at pictures.

When you are old and grey and full of sleep And nodding by the fire, take down this book, And slowly read, and dream of the soft look Your eyes had once, and of their...

I think the reason why I don’t read so much, is because as I have observed, whole books all boil down to a drop of essence. You can read a book full of ten thousand...

Let me begin with a heartfelt confession.I admit it. I am a biblioholic, one who loves books and whose life would seem incomplete without them. I am an addict, with a compulsive need to stop...

A book is not complete till it reaches a reader.

People who don’t read fiction are scared of what’s inside their own heads.

Why can’t people just sit and read books and be nice to each other?

My bother was one of the bigger influences in my life, in as much as he told me I didn’t have to read the choice of books that I as recommended at school, and that...

Literature has the ability to open up a whole new world to children, but we need to have a share in helping them to find that door and open it with them. Let’s set the...

Reading is a discount ticket to everywhere.

To know a man’s library is, in some measure, to know a man’s mind.

Reading was very important; the proper exercise and development of one’s mind was a paramount duty.

Of all books printed, probably not more than half are ever read. Many are embalmed in public libraries; many go into private quarters to fill spaces; many are glanced at and put away…scarcely opened until...

All good and true book-lovers practice the pleasing and improving avocation of reading in bed … No book can be appreciated until it has been slept with and dreamed over.

…we can pretend that the book in question is not Mr. West’s but mine, made mine by the madness of my reading.

Times change and discoveries are made that render earlier techniques and approaches less effective. Change is inevitable. To remain rigid when the whole world is changing and advancing is to invite misfortune. The AA program...

What’d you need?””Desuetude.””Reading again, are we? Could be dangerous. It means to become unaccustomed to. As in something gets discontinued, falls into disuse.””Thanks, man.””That it?””Yeah, but we should grab a drink sometime.

I was too much of a Bronx kid to read Emerson or Hawthorne.

When we are connected to the source, we will not be afraid of any task set before us.

Don’t just float through life; don’t just agree to anything and everything, have a course you are known for at all times.

Literature is news that stays news.