Whereas the Xerox researcher “was eager to juggle multiple threads of work simultaneously,” the skeptical questioner viewed his own work “as an exercise in solitary, singleminded concentration.” In the choices we have made, consciously or...

I was well traveled, and I created this illusion of literacy through reading and writing. I wrote a book of short stories.

At least as a single woman, I had time to pursue my own interests, read voraciously, and travel when opportunity presented.

We need the slower and more lasting stimulus of solitary reading as a relief from the pressure on eye, ear and nerves of the torrent of information and entertainment pouring from ever-open electronic jaws. It...

Silence. Montag sat like a carved white stone. The echo of the final hammer on his skull died slowly away into the black cavern where Faber waited for the echoes to subside. And then when...

The logic: Reading is a private pursuit, one that often takes place behind closed doors. A young lady might retreat with a book, might even take it into her boudoir, and there, reclining on here...

Nehmen Sie ein gutes Buch mit ins Bett – Bücher schnarchen nicht.

I’m not big on reading directions. I can’t do that. I’m just not from that world.

I would hate to die for a lot of reasons. But mostly because of all the books I haven’t yet read.

Without a mission and a sense of whom you write for, you aren’t worth reading.

Here’s what I mean by the miracle of language. When you’re falling into a good book, exactly as you might fall into a dream, a little conduit opens, a passageway between a reader’s heart and...

Another time, talking about his books, the baroness confessed that she had never bothered to read any of them, because she hardly ever read ‘difficult’ or ‘dark’ novels like the ones he wrote. With the...

We are stripped of all that gave value and substance to our existence: power and love; in this naked final state, our last lover, our mate, death, comes. Bereft, without cover, we face the elements...

It takes two people to get together, but only one person to leave

Read everything! I believe that reading made me a writer.

Reading is dangerous, because the more you read, the more you realise how little you know.

The words that strike us are those that awake an echo in a zone we have already made our own—the place where we live—and the vibration enables us to find fresh starting points within ourselves.

At some point in this course, perhaps even tonight, you will read something difficult, something you only partially understand, and your verdict will be this is stupid. Will I argue when you advance that opinion...

Digestion of words as well; I often read aloud to myself in my writing corner in the library, where no one can hear me, for the sake of better savouring the text, so as to...

After I consumed Frost in his entirety, my days of exploration began. I read The Diving Comedy while leafing through E. E. Cummings. I read Sidney and Milton and Shelley, piecing together my own aesthetics,...

Part of the great wonder of reading is that it has the ability to make human beings feel more connected to one another, which is a great good, if not from a pedagogical point of...

…ending a book with a sequel in such a way that the reader still has faith in the characters and in the writer. That’s finesse.

To long to read.

The taste for books was an early one. As a child he was sometimes found at midnight by a page still reading. They took his taper away, and he bred glow-worms to serve his purpose....

It is not just bookstores and libraries that are disappearing but museums, theaters, performing arts centers, art and music schools— all those places where I felt at home have joined the list of endangered species....

Time cleaning was less time reading, so I usually just did the minimal amount, and left it for another day, a day that would never come.

The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency — the belief that the here and now is all there is.

We are in the middle of the biggest revolution in reading and writing since the advent of the Gutenberg press.

I read nonfiction.”She reared back as if offended.

Once he’d asked, “Don’t you want to read? There are hundreds of books in the sitting room.”She had laughed and said, “I’ve read them all. I want to remember them the way they were. If...

Literature cannot be imposed; it must be discovered.

More people should visit Antarctica, metaphorically speaking, on their own. That is one of the conclusions I have reached, one of my recommendations: explore something, even if it’s just a bookshelf. Make a stab in...

she kept sliding down, in small half-willing surrenders, till she was a heap, with the book held tiringly above her face.

Reading nurtures the soul, and an enlightened friend brings it solace.

There’s a story behind every Bookworm”!

I wish to deal only with the masterpieces which the consensus of opinion for a long time has accepted as supreme. We are all supposed to have read them; it is a pity that so...

Without imagination, there would be no creativity. Without creativity, there would be nothing.

The endless piles of genre fiction are the key to happiness. They’re the key to picking out the things that actually make you happy in this world instead of the things that you’re told are...

Reading is like a bridge which fills the gap between the real world and the imaginations.

Rainy days should be spent at home with a cup of tea and a good book.

I see all of us reading ourselves away from ourselves, straining in circles of light to find more light until the line of words becomes a trail of crumbs that we follow across a page...

Make a new friend by picking up a book and getting to know it!

Books were my passion and my escape from madness.

Book should go where they will be most appreciated, and not sit unread, gathering dust on a forgotten shelf, don’t you agree?

Contemporary writers annoyed him, he found their worlds insular, their style too self-conscious and ironic. Theirs was not a literature that belonged to him.

People that read fucking books don’t take action!

Read to lead in order to succeed.

She thought it must be a lonely life for a boy who hated books.

Read! Write! Imagine! Create! Love! Live!

I’ve always found that the better the book I’m reading, the smarter I feel, or, at least, the more able I am to imagine that I might, someday, become smarter.