Reading good literature is an experience of pleasure…but it is also an experience of learning what and how we are, in our human integrity and our human imperfection, with our actions, our dreams, and our...

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

Entrei numa livraria. Pus-me a contar os livros que há para ler e os anos que terei de vida. Não chegam! Não duro nem para metade da livraria! Deve haver certamente outras maneiras de uma...

Each book holds an experience and an adventure.”[Letters of Note; Troy (MI, USA) Public Library, 1971]

In the words of Agatha Swanburne, founder of Swanburne Academy, “Every book is judged by its cover until it is read.

Books allow you to open doors, and chapters allow you to explore

It wasn’t until I started reading and found books they wouldn’t let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else.

I wasn’t really comfortable reading until I was 12.

News invented the modern world as much as the modern world invented news. Finding out what was going on elsewhere in the world change people’s minds about what was possible or tolerable.

12% of employees study further to learn more. 88% of employees study further to earn more.

Oh! it is absurd to have a hard-and-fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn’t. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn’t read.

A library could show you everything if you knew where to look.

An entire life spent reading would have fulfilled my every desire; I already knew that at the age of seven. The texture of the world is painful, inadequate; unalterable, or so it seems to me....

Father and Ivy used to go off on their excursions, never knowing that I was relieved when they were gone. That I’d wear my nightgowns all day and read from dawn till dusk.

All readers have reading in common.

A newspaper that you’re not reading can be used for anything; and the same people didn’t think it was immoral to wrap their garbage in newspaper.

But we do need a breather. We do need knowledge. And perhaps in a thousand years we might pick smaller cliffs to jump off. The books are to remind us what asses and fools we...

Goodness, Mr. Cellini, I’ve not time to answer all these questions. I’ve got to get on.’With what? She seldom did anything but read, as far as he knew. She must have read thousands of books,...

I tell you, the difference for me is between being victimized, terrorized, numbed by reading about different disasters, or reducing the anxiety by getting up and doing something about it, at whatever level.

Write all the time. I believe in writing every day, at least a thousand words a day. We have a strange idea about writing: that it can be done, and done well, without a great...

There is creative reading as well as creative writing.

There are four kinds of readers. The first is like the hourglass; and their reading being as the sand, it runs in and runs out, and leaves not a vestige behind. A second is like...

Few pleasures, for the true reader, rival the pleasure of browsing unhurriedly among books: old books, new books, library books, other people’s books, one’s own books – it does not matter whose or where. Simply...

Reading is more important than writing.

A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.

I went on writing reviews for the newspaper, and critical articles crying out for a different approach to culture, as even the most inattentive reader could hardly fail to notice if he scratched the surface...

When I stepped into the brown-tiled entryway of the Kentwood Public Library, the sunlight flowing down on me from the high windows, I felt a sense of importance. It gratified me to be in a...

Diana felt she was beginning to understand why, in all those novels she read, the headiest loves were the loves that couldn’t be.

Reading Plato should be easy; understanding Plato can be difficult.

If you crave for Knowledge, the banquet of Knowledge grows and groans on the board until the finer appetite sickens. If, still putting all your trust in Knowledge, you try to dodge the difficulty by...

All that mankind has done, thought, gained, or been; it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.

Just as one spoils the stomach by overfeeding and thereby impairs the whole body, so can one overload and choke the mind by giving it too much nourishment. For the more one reads the fewer...

What’s cheaper than a gallon of gas? An ebook. Save a dollar, stay home and read!

the code of a world he’d never been invited to join.

I’m the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.

Of all the unexpected things in contemporary literature, this is among the oddest: that kids have an inordinate appetite for very long, very tricky, very strange books about places that don’t exist.

I’m certain indeed, I think there’s no doubt of it – that reading does young people much harm. It puts things into their heads that never would have been there but for books. I declare,...

Libraries will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no libraries.

No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.

…to her all books were the same and, as with her subjects, she felt a duty to approach them without prejudice…Lauren Bacall, Winifred Holtby, Sylvia Plath – who were they? Only be reading could she...

Knowing I lov’d my books, he furnish’d me From mine own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom.

Reading is my escape when reality sucks

Read what gives you delight—at least most of the time—and do so without shame. And even if you are that rare sort of person who is delighted chiefl y by what some people call Great...

Back then I could not understand one word of what I read.Reading did, however, give me heart. Even if you cannot understand what you are reading you can get something from books.

”I always read everything when I was a kid-and I do mean everything, from Nancy Drew to Dickens to my dad’s John D. MacDonald-but then I went to regular school and the English teachers started...

A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read.

items that have become part of me, foliage that has grown to conceal the bare stem of my real personality, what I was like before I ever saw these books, or any book at all,...

Książki (…) to jedyny ratunek, żeby człowiek nie zapomniał, że jest człowiekiem. (…) Książki to także świat, i to świat, który człowiek sobie wybiera, a nie na który przychodzi.

If a book is worth reading, it will most probably be worth reading twice.

When I read a daring book or listen to rebellious music, I feel like I’ve found what freedom really means.