BIG books are better. There, I said it and it’s true. 

Instead of a book, what if we’re actually writing (or not writing) in the margins of our lives? What if our lives are books? What is the sign of our presence? Are we pressing into...

At its best, fantasy rewards the reader with a sense of wonder about what lies within the heart of the commonplace world. The greatest tales are told over and over, in many ways, through centuries....

But remember that the Captain belongs to the most dangerous enemy to truth and freedom, the solid unmoving catting of the majority.

A lot of the people who read a bestselling novel, for example, do not read much other fiction. By contrast, the audience for an obscure novel is largely composed of people who read a lot....

I had no idea that reading it would lead me to a cabin. It’s dangerous to open a book

I also did some jail time a few years ago. Spent a whole summer in jail reading books. I pumped a ton of new knowledge and new thinking into myself.

These short stories are vast structures existing mostly in the subconscious of our cultural history. They will live with the reader long after the words have been translated into ideas and dreams. That’s because a...

Readers may be divided into four classes:1) Sponges, who absorb all that they read and return it in nearly the same state, only a little dirtied.2) Sand-glasses, who retain nothing and are content to get...

A story can always break into pieces while it sits inside a book on a shelf; and, decades after we have read it even twenty times, it can open us up, by cut or caress,...

Reading is like thinking, like praying, like talking to a friend, like expressing your ideas, like listening to other people’s ideas, like listening to music, like looking at the view, like taking a walk on...

Maybe it’s not about the journey but rather the way you imagine the journey when you read a book.

The biggest truths are the ones told after the longest silences

The paperback is very interesting but I find it will never replace the hardcover book — it makes a very poor doorstop.

A tried and true way to get your children interested in books and reading is to read to them when they are young.

Every story is entitled to have a ‘happily ever after’ ending. However, not all characters are so deserving.

And when I read, and really I do not read so much, only a few authors, – a few men that I discovered by accident – I do this because they look at things in...

Life happened because I turned the pages.

[Harry] had always suffered from a vague restlessness, a longing for adventure that she told herself severely was the result of reading too many novels when she was a small child.

I don’t take up the story and follow it as if it were a road, taking mesomewhere… I go into it, and move back and forth and settle here and there, and stay in it...

An old book was a time capsule. When you opened the front cover, you opened a door to another world—a world accessible through a kind of looking glass made of hard-board and cloth. The author’s...

Remember that the truth within yourself will always be greater than the truth found in these pages. These stories are here to guide us—to help us find that truth, not to tell us what it...

Once she knows how to read there’s only one thing you can teach her to believe in and that is herself.

are different from us. They don’t care about books and such things.

You know that frustrating feeling of losing the page in your book? You didn’t want to go too far ahead and spoil the surprise, and you didn’t want to go too far back, so you...

Hugo headed off toward the door to leave, but the bookstore was warm and quiet, and the teetering piles of books fascinated him.

We bring to everything we read the expectations we have built up by a lifetime of reading.

Often, when I am able to check out a book, I read it a dozen times before returning it, desperate to remain lost in the magic of someone else’s story.

[When asked about Writing Conferences]”You meet people that will change your life.

the art of reading, it occupies your mind no matter at any situation or mood you’re in..bringing you to completely different world, the enchanting world of the characters..giving you the best feeling after reading it..the...

Every time I have a bad day, I’ll just find a corner, bring out my book and then everything starts to feel better.

Great books are great in part because of what they ask of their readers: they are not readily encountered, easily assessed.

Everyone should read, we say, but we act as if only those with special talent should write.

Reading a play, you view yourself as part of a whole. You see where the whole thing is going, and so you’re willing to go to the very ugly place that your heart may go...

If a good system of agriculture, unrivaled manufacturing skill, a capacity to produce whatever can contribute to either convenience or luxury, schools established in every village for teaching reading, writing, and arithmetic, the general practice...

Surely it is better, thought Domenica, that forty-five should buy the book and actually read it, than should many thousands, indeed millions, buy it and put it on their shelves, like…Professor Hawking’s Brief History of...

The strength of fiction is not in reading about yourself, but in reading about other people.

If you don’t want to waste your time on thinking, start reading.

I like to discover something new each day, to interpret the world in a way others might not, like a child might approach new experiences.

Paul cries, ‘Bring the books’ — join in the cry. Master those books you have. Read them thoroughly. Bathe in them until they saturate you.

I can hear the library humming in the night, a choir of authors murmuring inside their books along the unlit, alphabetical shelves, Giovanni Pontano next to Pope, Dumas next to his son, each one stitched...

The Yale graduate who had refused to read outside the course curriculum (the future Pres. Taft) suddenly found himself inspired.

I think it will last,” said Grandfather. “In my experience when people once begin to read they go on. They begin because they think they ought to and they go on because they must. Yes....

I shouldn’t need to remind you that it was words that created the universe and The Word that now holds it together. While your man was simply reading one little book, something not unlike Genesis...

I’ve got an image of me at the bottom of my garden sitting under my silver birch tree reading, while everyone else had gone somewhere exotic.

I never need to find time to read. When people say to me, ‘Oh, yeah, I love reading. I would love to read, but I just don’t have time,’ I’m thinking, ‘How can you not...

Love does not choose belief, place, time, situations, or race. love happens between two souls.

After all, reading is arguably a far more creative and imaginative process than writing; when the reader creates emotion in their head, or the colors of the sky during the setting sun, or the smell...

they should let some people into the library by prescription only

Reading Chekhov, I felt not happy, exactly, but as close to happiness as I knew I was likely to come. And it occurred to me that this was the pleasure and mystery of reading, as...