Pavasaris pats yra kaip neskaityta knyga. Kiekviena diena – tai naujas puslapis, kuriame parašyta tiek įdomaus, tiek neregėto, tiek negirdėto, ir negali net trumpam užmerkti akių, nes liksi ko nors nepamatęs: paukščio, žiedo, sprogstančio lapo,...

I leapt eagerly into books. The characters’ lives were so much more interesting than the lonely heartbeat of my own.

For some reason, when people meet me and find out I’m a writer they always ask if I write children’s books. Um… please don’t let your kids read my books. Well, unless your kids are...

I’ve been very influenced by folklore, fairy tales, and folk ballads, so I love all the classic works based on these things — like George Macdonald’s 19th century fairy stories, the fairy poetry of W.B....

a happy birthdaythis evening, I sat by an open windowand read till the light was gone and the bookwas no more than a part of the darkness.I could easily have switched on a lamp,but I...

He that reads and grows no wiser seldom suspects his own deficiency, but complains of hard words and obscure sentences, and asks why books are written which cannot be understood.

One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing.

I don’t think anybody should read anything except for fun because you won’t learn anything unless you enjoy it.

When we unnecessarily elongate the process of “learning to read,” we postpone “reading to learn” – learning itself – by years.

For in those days I had no idea that many of the greatest books are like a forest, and that the best way to get to know them is to wander right into the middle...

If you wish to draw profit, read with humility, simplicity, and faith, and never with the design of gaining a reputation for learning.

A children’s story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children’s story in the slightest.

A dreamer is someone who hopes to comprehend things that others cannot even imagine

There are books for when you’re bored. Plenty of them. There are books for when you’re calm. The best kind, in my opinion. There are also books for when you’re sad. And there are books...

Desultory readers are seldom remarkable for the exactness of their learning.

The Old Testament is my favourite science fantasy reading.

What a sense of superiority it gives one to escape reading some book which everyone else is reading.

I read, and, in reading, lifted the Curtains of the Impossible that blind the mind, and looked out into the unknown.

We read in bed because reading is halfway between life and dreaming, our own consciousness in someone else’s mind.

It’s not what you will get out of the books that is so enriching — it is what the books will get out of you that will ultimately change your life.

Back to culture. Yes, actually to culture. You can’t consume much if you sit still and read books.

Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others.

He did not wholly understand the intricate play of ideas and the complex phrases, but as he read he sensed a strong, who purpose behind the words and he felt that he almost understood.

What’s your favorite book?’ is a question that is usually only asked by children and banking identity-verification services–and favorite isn’t, anyway, the right word to describe the relationship a reader has with a particularly cherished...

La lectura es un sintoma de los incredulos. Cuando dudas investigas y si investigas descubres lo inimaginable. A mucha gente le la miedo leer porque no esta de moda.

She curled sideways into the milky light of the bedside lamp and began to read.

If you’re a serious minded leader, you will read. You will read all you can. You will read when you feel like it, and you will read when you don’t. You will do whatever you...

There are treasures in books that all the money in the world cannot buy, but the poorest laborer can have for nothing.

You learn a lot by reading and even more by sharing.

Doom is nigh. I am in acute distress, desperately trying to coax sleep, opening my eyes every few seconds to check their faded gleam, and imagining paradise as a place where a sleepless neighbor reads...

Your understanding and interpretation of [a novel] is undoubtedly unique…and that is the real beauty of the relationship that joins readers, books and writers together in a literary trinity—a bookish triumvirate.

[…] there exists around the written world opened by the work a multitude of other possible worlds, which we can complete by means of our images and our words. Denying oneself this work of completion...

Books swept me away, this way and that, one after the other; I made endless vows according to their lights for I believed them.

Reading literature is a way of reaching back to something bigger and older and different. It can give you the feeling that you belong to the past as well as the present, and it can...

Reading Gives Us Some Place To Go, When We Have To Stay Where We Are.

Colleges should offer lots of optional life-enriching experiences, like intramural basketball and a place to sunbathe. But reading books, like basketball or sunbathing, is a leisure activity, neither more nor less admirable than any other,...

Tucking my nose into a book makes me completely oblivious to my surroundings. I would have made a terrible spy in the army–the first person to hand me a novel would have been able to...

I am a man without many pleasures in life, a man whose few pleasures are small, but a man whose small pleasures are very important to him. One of them is eating. One reading. Another...

I asked, how is knowledge found? ‘You must learn how to read, little sister,’ he said.

He was a very private person, and sometimes it seemed to me that he was no longer interested in the world or in other people… I got the feeling that Julián was living in the...

There is much to discover that’s not on the back cover!

Remember that the book which bores you when you are twenty or thirty will open doors for you when you are forty or fifty.

They had only ever discussed books but what, in this life, is more personal than books?

Among the many worlds which man did not receive as a gift of nature, but which he created with his own mind, the world of books is the greatest. Every child, scrawling his first letters...

Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes.

You need to read more science fiction. Nobody who reads science fiction comes out with this crap about the end of history

Proust is a hero of mine. I read ‘A la recherche’ in one go, and I’m a very slow reader. It had an astonishing impact, reading it on my own and being my main company....

Think before you speak,and read before you think.

Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.

Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.