The more you read, the harder it is to condemn.

You see, unlike in the movies, there is no THE END sign flashing at the end of books. When I’ve read a book, I don’t feel like I’ve finished anything. So I start a new...

When people say they don’t read, I always wonder if they don’t because they can’t or because they won’t. Then I think, what’s the difference? Either way they are ignorant.

I had an unconventional birth. I popped out of a vending machine, precisely like books don’t. But you shouldn’t read too much into it.

Reading was a joy, a desperately needed escape — I didn’t read to learn, I was reading to read.

I had a very mixed kind of childhood reading. I read the childhood classics like ‘Robinson Crusoe,’ ‘Alice in Wonderland,’ ‘Chums Annual.’ At the same time, I read an enormous number of American comics because...

Only a few days earlier he had explained to her that he did not merely read books but traveled with them, that they took him to other countries and unfamiliar continents, and that with their...

I am ashamed to say this, but as a child, neither my parents not my teachers pushed me to read. In fact, I did not read an entire book through until I was a grown...

He considered his disposition as of the sort which must suffer heavily, uniting very strong feelings with quiet,serious, and retiring manners, and a decided taste for reading and sedentary pursuits.

A deaf composer’s like a cook who’s lost his sense of taste. A frog that’s lost its webbed feet. A truck driver with his license revoked. That would throw anybody for a loop, don’t you...

If your library is not “unsafe,” it probably isn’t doing its job.

There are metaphors more real than the people who walk in the street. There are images tucked away in books that live more vividly than many men and women. There are phrases from literary works...

Either write something worth reading, or do something worth writing.

[When under stress I thought of] the books I had read [and applied] them to myself. I [imagined I was] one of the characters [and soon found myself] in made-up circumstances which were most agreeable...

The flickering candlelight conspired with the silence, and we only interrupted each other’s reading to share a casual delight.

Yes, the stories are dangerous, she was right. A book is a magic carpet that flies you off elsewhere. A book is a door. You open it. You step through. Do you come back?

My joy at the sensation of my mind opening up and expanding was beyond description.

The Spice Girl Victoria Beckham has just published the story of her life. I confess that it is not in my reading table.

I have never known any distress that an hour’s reading did not relieve.

I care about reading, a lot. It’s a big part of my life.

Find a quiet place, and just read. If you’re reading an ebook, clear away everything else but your ebook reader.Then you settle into the reading, and enjoy it. Bask in the luxury of reading without...

A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

We forget that the simple gesture of putting a book in someone’s hands can change a life. I want to remind you that it can. I want to thank you because it did. – 2010...

Once you read something, you can’t erase it from your brain.

I guess there are never enough books.

My new favorite title is How Jane Austen Ruined My Life. I don’t have the courage to read it, though. I’m afraid to discover she’s ruined mine as well.

The camera would miss it all. A magnificent picture is never worth a thousand perfect words. Ansel Adams can be a great artist, but he can never be Shakespeare. His tools are too literal.

I’m not well read, but when I do read, I read well.

We are narrative creatures, and we need narrative nourishment—narrative catechisms.

That was what her parents did not understand—and had never understood—about stories. Liza told herself storied as though she was weaving and knotting an endless rope. Then, no matter how dark or terrible the pit...

We want splendid books, books that immerse us in the splendor of reality and keep us there; books that prove to us that love is at work in the world next to evil, right up...

Books can truly change our lives: the lives of those who read them, the lives of those who write them. Readers and writers alike discover things they never knew about the world and about themselves.

Usually when I enter a bookstore, I feel immediately calm. Bookstores are, for me, what churches are for other people. My breath gets slower and deeper as I peruse the shelves. I believe that books...

I was going to the library, too. I’d get my parents to drop me off at the library on their way to work in the morning during school vacations. Sometimes my dad would embarrass me...

Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.

Contrary to popular belief, my experience has shown me that the people who are exceptionally good in business aren’t so because of what they know but because of their insatiable need to know more.

Don’t be jealous, be agressive. Make 2012 yours!

You make me love books and the words inside them, because they talk about you. I know they do, they tell me that I love you, not as cliché as I write it, but in...

Reading is a staple of life, like bread or water. Or chocolate.

What is childhood without stories? And how will children fall in love with stories without bookstores? You can’t get that from a computer.

When evening comes, I return home and go into my study. On the threshold I strip off my muddy, sweaty, workday clothes, and put on the robes of court and palace, and in this graver...

However it happens, the appeal of the books we return to is often, at least in part, a fascination with what we can’t quite reach.

…If I don’t have twenty or thirty books right here, waiting to be read, I start jonesing. That’s my compulsion.

Nežinau, su kuo galėčiau palyginti ilgo skaitymo malonumą, nebent su skraidymais sapnuose, kai pakyli aukštai į orą, kai nereikia net pastangų plasnoti, sklendi sau, ir tiek. Toks lengvas, toks laimingas ir nenorintis nusileisti ant žemės.

That might be the most idiotic thing you’ve ever said to me

We support all actions that lead to the joy, the fun, the reward, the challenge, and the adventure of reading.

Bit by bit, he has pared down his desires to what is now approaching a bare minimum. He has cut out smoking and drinking, he no longer eats in restaurants, he does not own a...

You will get little or nothing from the printed page if you bring it nothing but your eye.

Learn as much as you can. Take every opportunity to learn about writing, whether it’s through classes, workshops, whatever is available to you. This may be difficult, because things like classes, workshops, writing programs, require...

In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity.