I’m not interested in the reviews by critics over the age of 15.

You are one of us, one of those who knows without knowing, and one who will live and die in dreams that blend with this world. No, I am no gypsy, just one who has...

…only then did I wake out of the book.

Soon enough his head would be swimming with tales of derring-do and high adventure, tales of beautiful maidens kissed, of evildoers shot with pistols or fought with swords, of bags of gold, of diamonds as...

I must read. I must read.I must read.

The book thief has struck for the first time – the beginning of an illustrious career.

To read is to climb the high places!

Always write exactly what you’re feeling at the exact moment when writing something like poetry or an emotional novel. Put yourself, pour all emotions into your work…make yourself cry, feel joy if you are writing...

So Matilda’s strong young mind continued to grow, nurtured by the voices of all those authors who had sent their books out into the world like ships on the sea.

Read books are far less valuable than unread ones. The library should contain as much of what you do not know as your financial means, mortgage rates, and the currently tight real-estate market alow you...

Her constant orders for beheading are shocking to those modern critics of children’s literature who feel that juvenile fiction should be free of all violence and especially violence with Freudian undertones. Even the Oz books...

Perhaps this is why one reads fiction to begin with – to live a more interesting reality than one’s daily life.

I did realize, as do you, how blessed I was to know bookjoy, the private pleasure of savoring text.

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

Bookish people, who are often maladroit people, persist in thinking they can master any subtlety so long as it’s been shaped into acceptable expository prose.

Parents often ask – how do I get my child interested in books and reading? One tried and true way that my late husband and I used was paying them to read. For each book...

‘You’re there, but the books draw you in to whole other worlds. I mean, I know you study more serious things than the silly stories I read, but when you’re there, you can be anywhere....

I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter.

We read to under­stand our intu­ition of the world, to dis­cover that some­one a thou­sand miles and years away has put into words our most inti­mate desires and our most secret fears. Reading is a...

The use of imaginative fiction is to deepen your understanding of your world, and your fellow men, and your own feelings, and your destiny.

Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them; but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.

Oh, don’t get me started! I love fantasy, I read it for pleasure, even after all these years. Pat McKillip, Ursula Le Guin and John Crowley are probably my favorite writers in the field, in...

One bright day in the last week of February, I was walking in the park, enjoying the threefold luxury of solitude, a book, and pleasant weather.

Sometimes I think heaven must be one continuous unexhausted reading.

If you truly love a book, you should sleep with it, write in it, read aloud from it, and fill its pages with muffin crumbs.

Fast reading of a great novel will get us the plot. It will get us names, a shadowy idea of characters, a sketch of settings. It will not get us subtleties, small differentiations, depth of...

Some books must be sipped slowly like a strong bourbon. Most books must be devoured more than once because as you age you distill more.

Just write. That’s my only tip. And read. I guess that’s two.

To read is to withdraw.To make oneself unavailable. One would feel easier about it if the pursuit inself were less…selfish.

It is the writer’s duty to tell the terrible truth, and it is a reader’s civic duty to learn this truth. To turn away, to close one’s eyes and walk past is to insult the...

Read what you like, not what you’re told to like. That way you’ll read for a lifetime.

So slip on your goggles and your reading trunks, for the sun is high. Let me leave you with one more thought. In what season of the year do we find ourselves – I’m speaking...

Reading is not an end to itself, but a means to an end.

There’s plenty of room for strangeness, mystery, originality, wildness, etc. in poems that also invite the reader into the human and alive center about which the poem circles.

No amount of reading or memorizing will make you successful in life. It is the understanding and application of wise thought that counts.” -Bob Proctor

Rob turned the rustling pages and grinned.’Ach, she’s writ here: “Oh, the dear Feegles ha’ turned up again,”‘ he said. This met with general applause.’Ach, what a kind girl she is tae write that,’ said...

As you mature, you start reading and studying and researching, you start to really know what life is about.

The dull people decided years and years ago, as everyone knows, that novel-writing was the lowest species of literary exertion, and that novel reading was a dangerous luxury and an utter waste of time.