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...

I believe that life is all about perception and timing. That good things come to those who act and that life’s about more than collecting a paycheck. I believe that the only person you’re destined...

Tis the good reader that makes the good book; in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakenly meant for his ear; the profit of books is...

There are words and words and none mean anything. And then one sentence means everything.

But editors are still the world’s readers. And thus the eyes of the world.

In omnibus requiem quaesivi, et nusquam inveni nisi in angulo cum libro.(Everywhere I have sought peace and not found it, except in a corner with a book.)

May I a small house and large garden have;And a few friends,And many books, both true.

Negative thoughts force us to take precautions; positive thoughts encourage us to take actions

He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the more refined art of skipping and skimming.

It is not true that ‘we have only one life to live’; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

When we read, we decide when, where, how long, and about what. One of the few places on earth that it is still possible to experience an instant sense of freedom and privacy is anywhere...

Most non-readers are nothing but an agglomeration of third-hand opinion and blindly received wisdom.

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.

Una y otra vez, los lectores se han condicionado mutuamente.

My early and invincible love of reading–I would not exchange for the treasures of India.

One day I would have all the books in the world, shelves and shelves of them. I would live my life in a tower of books. I would read all day long and eat peaches....

I do not have more information after reading a poem; I have more experience.

We read about you to be with you, to walk in someone else’s shoes, to experience another life. Some of those lives are hard, and others are easy, but we’re with you every step of...

Literature is my Utopia

Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

Patience is a virtue not a vice.

God comes down in the evenings to chat with man, enjoy man’s company and find out how man faired in the course of the day.

I am most interested in encouraging Christians to think and read well. Christians, of all people, should reflect the mind of their Maker. Learning to read well is a step toward loving God with your...

Because most of the girls were still in mourning and all of them had lost their textbooks, even pencils and pens, Shaukat Ali began the first classes by reading to them from poetry and religious...