To enjoy and learn from what you read you must understand the meanings of the words a writer uses. You do yourself a grave disservice if you read around words you don’t know, or worse,...

I love the longueurs of a book even if they seem pointless because you can get a peek into the author’s mind, a glimpse of their creative soul.

There is a book for every walk of life. No matter the age, race, or gender there is something that will appeal to you.

She is never alone when she has Her Books. Books, to her, are Friends. Give her Shakespeare or Jane Austen, Meredith or Hardy, and she is Lost – lost in a world of her own....

When you look at a city, it’s like reading the hopes, aspirations and pride of everyone who built it.

I do enjoy reading some science fiction.

Reading the text of my blog itself is not really the interesting part. The exciting part is how the Internet allows me to be the eyes and ears for the people sending me postings from...

I spent much of my prison time reading. I must have read over 200 large books, mostly fictional stories about the American pioneers, the Vikings, Mafia, etc. As long as I was engrossed in a...

My pleasure in reading is not necessarily the witnessing of something new, but of something familiar which I haven’t seen described.

Maybe reading was just a way to make her feel less alone, to keep her company. When you read something you are stopped, the moment is stayed, you can sometimes be there more fully than...

A good [short story] would take me out of myself and then stuff me back in, outsized, now, and uneasy with the fit.

If I could always read I should never feel the want of company.

So cheer up Beloved; for your God is able, He is the maker of all things.

The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers. I could regard them in no other light than a band of successful robbers, who had left their homes, and...

Stories, whether they’re good or bad, are expressions of interactions within society. Some may be seen as ‘boring’, but in their own right, they are still stories to explored. People throughout life have more exciting...

One sheds ones sickness in books- repeats and presents again ones emotions, to be master of them.

Why do I read?I just can’t help myself.I read to learn and to grow, to laugh and to be motivated.I read to understand things I’ve never been exposed to.I read when I’m crabby, when I’ve...

Reading haiku is like viewing a photograph or a painting. A haiku is a moment of time, isolated, and held up for viewing.

‘Books had always been my best friends and all I wanted to do was lose myself in them, and better yet if the worlds and characters were of my own making.’

Do you want to die old and craven in your bed?- How else? Though not till I’m done reading.

The rumor is that my cousin dates phoenix sculptures made out of cheese. It has to be true, because it’s too weird not to be. Also, consider the evidence. He lives in Wisconsin and does...

I ask of literature precisely those things of which I feel the lack in my own life.

A romance book is designed to tell you something about love–its ability to endure, forgive, go the extra mile, care about someone, put someone else first.

This was the book I read over and over. I really felt so in tune with them- I knew all the dates of their lives, what they had been doing, whre they had been. They...

Dinosaurs didn’t read. Look what happened to them!

If a book is well written, I always find it too short.

The most essential and fundamental aspect of culture is the study of literature, since this is an education in how to picture and understand human situations.

The reader! You, dogged, uninsultable, print-oriented bastard, it’s you I’m addressing, who else, from inside this monstrous fiction. You’ve read me this far, then? Even this far? For what discreditable motive? How is it you...

You forget everything. The hours slip by. You travel in your chair through centuries you seem seem to see before you, your thoughts are caught up in the story, dallying with the details or following...

Read in oreder to live

Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.

The beauty of Goodreads is that you know you’re sowing in a field where everyone, by definition and self-selection, loves to read.

The ability to read awoke inside of me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.

So many books, so little time

Explore new learning adventures.

Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.

Learn well and play well.

Daily reading is a sacred knowledge.

In other words, it’s one of those books you thrust on your partner with an incredulous cry of “This is me!

76.David Hume – Treatise on Human Nature; Essays Moral and Political; An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding77.Jean-Jacques Rousseau – On the Origin of Inequality; On the Political Economy; Emile – or, On Education, The Social Contract78.Laurence...

I think the act of reading imbues the reader with a sensitivity toward the outside world that people who don’t read can sometimes lack. I know it seems like a contradiction in terms; after all...

Upon descending our threaded words on the web by a steep and hazardous precipice of readers requires constant review.

He had no money and no home; he lived entirely on the road of the racing circuit, sleeping in empty stalls, carrying with him only a saddle, his rosary, and his books….The books were the...

If we weigh the significance of a book by the effect it has on its readers, then the great children’s books suddenly turn up very high on the list.

Poetry is not for profit. Poetry is for Posterity.

On no days of our childhood did we live so fully perhaps as those we thought we had left behind without living them, those that we spent with a favourite book.

We invent fictions in order to live somehow the many lives we would like to lead when we barely have one at our disposal.

Read things you’re sure will disagree with your current thinking. If you’re a die-hard anti-animal person, read Meat. If you’re a die-hard global warming advocate, read Glenn Beck. If you’re a Rush Limbaugh fan, read...

Reading a novel, War and Peace for example, is no Catnap. Because a novel is so long, reading one is like being married forever to somebody nobody knows or cares about.

When at last I came upon the right book, the feeling was violent: it blew open a hole in me that made life more dangerous because I couldn’t control what came through it.