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.

My niece just turned one. I gave her a birthday card that read, “If you can read this, Happy Birthday!

It has been found that reading love quotes is beneficial to your health. It has been found by me, and I found it under my bed.

Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.

The process of reading is somehow heightened through the process of doing it near water. Extreme reading!

I would look at the first chapter of any new novel as a final test of its merits. If there was a murdered man under the sofa in the first chapter, I read the story....

Books help me create a better reality.

I enjoyed writing. Perhaps it was because I hardly heard the sound of my own voice. My written words were my voice, speaking, singing, … I was there on the page

A classroom atmosphere that promotes reading does not come from the furniture and its placement as much as it comes from the teacher’s expectation that students will read.

I should like to write about what happens when fictive people encounter and are embellished by real people.

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.

Since I stopped writing, I read more than ever. Other people’s words, not my own–my words are gone.

The pages of a book are given life only as they are opened

And for the next long years of my life, I tried to remember only the reading, not the terrible things that happened to me as I came and went up and down the stairs. The...

Life isn’t really short. There are just too many good books to read in one lifetime.

I do lend my books, but I have to be a bit selective because my marginalia are so incriminating.” –Alison Bechdel

Books have the power to change and transform your life like few other things you have.

Writers possess magic. It’s in their words. They compose phrases as powerful as incantations, creating illusions in the minds of readers. These spells make eyes envision things that aren’t real; they make hearts feel things...

The pleasure of the text is that moment when my body pursues its own ideas—for my body does not have the same ideas as I do.

As readers, we remain in the nursery stage so long as we cannot distinguish between taste and judgment, so long, that is, as the only possible verdicts we can pass on a book are two:...