Reading is important.Books are important.Librarians are important. (Also, libraries are not child-care facilities, but sometimes feral children raise themselves among the stacks.)

[W]hat I like best is staying home and reading. Being rich is not about how many homes you own. It’s the freedom to pick up any book you want without looking at the price and...

My arms are killing me. I didn’t know words could be so heavy.

But when you read books you almost feel like you’re out there in the world. Like you’re going on this adventure right with the main character. At least, that’s the way I do it. It’s...

As the sweaty, alcohol fuming bodies press in on me from all directions I decide that my ideal of a good time is reading a good novel, alone

I’m wondering what to read next.” Matilda said. “I’ve finished all the children’s books.

There were the people who read and there were the others. Whether you were a reader or a nonreader–it was quickly noted. There was no greater distinction between people.

Nobody can decide for himself whether he is going to be a human being. The only question open to him is whether he will be an ignorant undeveloped one or one who has sought to...

My friend says she’s smart. She reads a book to fall asleep.

He wondered if burned books made a special kind of smoke that clung to the world forever, in the same way that a book, once read, clings to its reader forever.

Woodrow Wilson claimed that history endows us with the “invaluable mental power we call judgment.

He loved books, those undemanding but faithful friends.

The problem in our country isn’t with books being banned, but with people no longer reading. You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

A book is a collaboration between the one who reads and what is read and, at its best, that coming together is a love story like any other.

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.

As readers, we have gone from learning a precious craft whose secret was held by a jealous few, to taking for granted a skin that has become subordinate to principles of mindless financial profit or...

As you read a book word by word and page by page, you participate in its creation, just as a cellist playing a Bach suite participates, note by note, in the creation, the coming-to-be, the...

One can never read too little of bad, or too much of good books: bad books are intellectual poison; they destroy the mind.In order to read what is good one must make it a condition...

I love so many books and authors that it’s hard to name just a few, but I’m always particularly excited when new books by Alice Hoffman, John Crowley, Joanne Harris, Elizabeth Knox, and Patricia McKillip...

Reading is my favourite occupation, when I have leisure for it and books to read.

What a vast fertility of pleasure books hold for me! I went in and found the table laden with books. I looked in and sniffed them all. I could not resist carrying this one off...

I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.

I love the book. I love the feel of a book in my hands, the compactness of it, the shape, the size. I love the feel of paper. The sound it makes when I turn...

No matter how people mess with you or let you down, or how you let yourself down, a good book means that when you get in bed that night, you have a good hour. I...

I am forever an advocate of books, both the reading of them and the writing. There is something sacred to me in that community. Because writing–and reading–is a solitary business. And it’s good to know...

The days weren’t long enough for the reading she wanted to do.

You learn almost as much about a thinker from what he reads—in particular, what he likes and what he disdains—as from what he writes himself.

If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed.

A book is not completed till it’s read.

THE VOICE YOU HEAR WHEN YOU READ SILENTLYis not silent, it is a speaking-out-loud voice in your head; it is *spoken*,a voice is *saying* itas you read. It’s the writer’s words,of course, in a literary...

I stretched out my hand towards the little bookshelf where I kept cookery and devotional books, the most comfortable bedside reading.

He enjoyed reading and writing. He liked words. Words didn’t shout or make loud noises, which pretty much defined the rest of his family. They didn’t involve getting muddy in the freezing cold. They didn’t...

Suddenly the reader’s eyes were filled with tears, and a loving voice whispered in his ear: -Why are you crying if everything in that book isn’t true?- And the reader replied: -I know; but what...

The books—the generous friends who met me without suspicion—the merciful masters who never used me ill! The only years of my life that I can look back on with something like pride… Early and late,...

Once you read a classic, you will start loving even the smell of the books.

I inhaled the musty, leathery, old-papery scent and a shiver passed over me. If I had any idea of heaven, it was this: shelves and shelves of books, ten times as many as were upstairs,...

Statistically, if you’re reading this sentence, you’re an oddball. The average American spends three minutes a day reading a book. At this moment, you and I are engaged in an essentially antiquated interaction. Welcome, fellow...

This book (Jarod Kintz’s book) is trash. I mean, I assume it is, because that’s where I found it while scrounging for lunch. However, I must admit that I haven’t read it. I would have,...

Lhe love of a book is what’s in your heart