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.

Give yourself to reading.’… You need to read. Renounce as much as you will all light literature, but study as much as possible sound theological works,especially the Puritanic writers, and expositions of the Bible.

If time heals all wounds, and a book can hold a person’s entire life, then you can speed up the process with a pulp time warp.

Each book has a reader, and each reader has a book.

That’s what this country needs — more books!

Imagine a very long time passing – and I find my way out, following someone who already knows how to leave Hell. And God says to me on Earth for the first time, “Xas!” in...

A library is a place where you can lose your innocence without losing your virginity.

I think it’s the books that you read when you’re young that live with you forever.

She must have been very anxious about a first boy friend to fall in love with a Colgate boy

Take no heed of her…. She reads a lot of books.

Books can be dangerous. The best ones should be labeled “This could change your life.

No book is really worth reading, which does not either impart valuable knowledge; or set before us some ideal of beauty, strength, or nobility of character. There are enough great books to occupy us during...

Reading is a beautiful prayer for knowledge.

Create your world with God’s Word in your mouth just say it and it will be accomplished!

Ladies, get confident about yourselves, build up your self-worth and esteem, love yourself and be proud of your achievements and your man will adore you for life.

Because even among contrarians, I’m a contrarian. But all of this is just words of bronze, third place rhetoric. What do I really mean when I say we want to shock society into awareness? Do...

I have loved this disaster of a library since I was old enough to read.

Reading requires actual concentration. If you skipped a paragraph, or even an important sentence, you could lose the entire story. With most TV shows, though, you didn’t have to concentrate at all. You could space...

Don’t be amazed if you see my eyes always wandering. In fact, this is my way of reading, and it is only in this way that reading proves fruitful to me. If a book truly...

Euripides “questioned everything. He was a misanthrope who preferred books to men.

Aesthetic criticism returns us to the autonomy of imaginative literature and the sovereignty of the solitary soul, the reader not as a person in society but as the deep self, our ultimate inwardness.

Some people read books on musicians, while I read music books. Not books on music, but literally books full of sheet music. Fascinating reading.

I read about sneezing and immediately sneezed. I must be allergic to reading.

Now you tell your father not to teach you any more. It’s best to begin reading with a fresh mind. You tell him I’ll take over from here and try to undo the damage–

To prohibit the reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves.

No construirás una máquina a semejanza de la mente del hombre.-Biblia católica naranja-

Books are both our luxuries and our daily bread.

I am no novel-reader — I seldom look into novels — Do not imagine that I often read novels — It is really very well for a novel.” Such is the common cant. “And what...

Students will read if we give them the books, the time, and the enthusiastic encouragement to do so. If we make them wait for the one unit a year in which they are allowed to...

Read. Everything you can get your hands on. Read until words become your friends. Them when you need to find one, they will jump into your mind, waving their hands for you to pick them....

Envy, as distasteful as it is, has seeped into my mind on rare occasions, and those I’ve envied, although few in number, have only been those that live a life of leisure with peace of...

You and me will read a book and find three interesting things that we remember. But Colin finds everything intriguing. He reads a book about presidents and he remembers more of it because everything he...