The nature of immortality is a mystery,’ he says, speaking so softly that we have to lean closer to hear.’ But everything I know of writing and reading tells me that this is true. I...

My perfect morning is spent drinking coffee, eating porridge and reading the paper at a local cafe.

Look, these need no reward. We have nothing to give them. They have loved reading.

is as rare an appearance . . . as a Comet or an Earthquake.

This particular book felt familiar, like an old friend. The characters drew me into their world, and I blocked out mine for the rest of the afternoon.

Every reading is partial, but that does not absolve us from the quest for meaning, which defines us as a species.

And the upside to being confined to home was that it gave me plenty of time to continue reading.

I can feel infinitely alive curled up on the sofa reading a book.

The book smelled dusty and old but also carried a sweet tang, a hint of something inviting. She opened to the first page and started to read, pronouncing the words in a reverent whisper.

There are few nicer things than sitting up in bed, drinking strong tea, and reading.

I pity the people who don’t like to read, because then they spend their whole lives stuck in this one world and dont get to discover any others.

Go to hell, I’m reading!

Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.

I learned to write by reading the kind of books I wished I’d written.

He began to read at haphazard. He entered upon each system with a little thrill of excitement, expecting to find in each some guide by which he could rule his conduct; he felt himself like...

I stress the expansion and elaboration of language. In simplifying it, reducing it, we reduce the power of our expression and our power to communicate. Standardization, the use of worn-out formulas, impedes communication because it...

improving” literature. You’ll wind up with a generation convinced that reading is uncool and worse, unpleasant.We need our children to get onto the reading ladder: anything that they enjoy reading will move them up, rung...

I think they assign things to students which are way over their heads, which destroy your love of reading, rather than leading you to it. I don’t understand that. Gosh.

I have all the books I could need, and what more could I need than books?

You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.

Hey, Geekoid!” yelled Duncan Dougal, “Why do you read so much? Don’t you know how to watch TV?

A library is a good place to go when you feel unhappy, for there, in a book, you may find encouragement and comfort. A library is a good place to go when you feel bewildered...

No two persons ever read the same book.

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

For me, reading was always the great escape without getting your fingers burnt.

An attentive reader will always learn more, and more quickly, from good authors than from life.

I’m a great reader that never has time to read.

The great thing about books was the solidity of the written word. You might change and your reading might change as a result, but the book remained whatever it had always been. A good book...

We get heroes with impossible abilities and heroines with strengths we can only dream of. And for a little while, we are those characters. That hero is in love with us. That heroine is you,...

Some words have to be explicitly uttered, Lenore. Only by actually uttering certain words does one really DO what one SAYS. ‘Love’ is one of those words, performative words. Some words can literally make things...

A great book allows me to leap over that wall: in a deep, significant conversation with another consciousness, I feel human and unalone.

I wish every envelope enclosed a love letter. It’s this hope that leads me to open strangers’ mail. So you see, I’m a romantic, not an NSA employee.

A confident woman knows her worth and so doesn’t fret when her man is highly placed or is often found amidst other women in the course of his business or assignment.

The function of a book is to provide a reading experience.

I’ll make you fitter to talk with men,I’ll touch with silver the lines you pen,I’ll lead you nearer the truth you seek,I’ll strengthen you when your faith grows weak -This place on your shelf is...

People always see me writing and ask me if they can read my writing. The answer is yes, after I publish it and they pay for it.

Meggie thought this first whisper sounded a little different from one book to another, depending on weather or not she already knew the story it was going to tell her.

If you would tell me the heart of a man, tell me not what he reads, but what he rereads.

The difference between reading a story and studying a story is the difference between living the story and killing the story and looking at its guts.

Reading—it’s the third best thing to do in bed.

Some words are invisible—namely spoken words—but that only means I read them with my ears. But people are rude, and they often speak to me when I’m trying to read.

You mean like a psychic imprint? I know your assistant director of the Preternatural Division, and I mean no disrespect, but I never got the feeling you believed in magic as an investigative tool.’From the...

Books are another kind of magic.

He is trying to recapture his innocence, yet all he succeeds in doing (by writing) is to inoculate the world with a virus of his disillusionment.

What benefits new books bring us! I would like a basket full of books telling the youth of images which fall from heaven for me every day. This desire is natural. This prodigy is easy....

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.

With my eyes closed, I would touch a familiar book and draw its fragrance deep inside me. This was enough to make me happy.

Stories serve multiple purposes. At a basic level they are great entertainment, which is essential for living a happy and healthy life, but on a deeper level stories help us explore issues that are otherwise...

I think of my pile of old paperbacks, their pages gone wobbly, like they’d once belonged to the sea.

Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read...