A classroom atmosphere that promotes reading does not come from the furniture and its placement as much as it comes from the teacher’s expectation that students will read.

I should like to write about what happens when fictive people encounter and are embellished by real people.

Motionless we traverse countries we fancy we see, and your thought, blending with the fiction, playing with the details, follows the outline of the adventures. It mingles with the characters, and it seems as if...

Well, I usually can’t, but neither the book nor the conversation is particularly intellectually challenging.

Deciding what to read is also a matter of filtering.

I’ve just finished reading some of my early papers, and you know, when I’d finished I said to myself, ‘Rutherford, my boy, you used to be a damned clever fellow.’ (1911)

Bore children, and they stop reading. There’s no room for self-indulgence or showing off or setting the scene.

I shudder to think of an eternity spend without books. I have hopes that every book that was ever lost is somewhere waiting for me when my life here finally ends.

The man who does not read miss a great literature of knowledge. You must dare to read and reread.

I’m not a stranger,” I said, and pointed to his book. “I’m someone who reads the same authors you do.

In a school community, someone who reads a book for some secretive purpose, other than discussing it, is strange. What was she reading for?

No, no. Not a genius. This is like what reading is like for you. You look at the squiggles and loops, and the puzzle opens until suddenly nothing means something, something more than the sum...

Maybe Heaven will be a library. Then I will be able to finish my to-read list.

If a book is easy and fits nicely into all your language conventions and thought forms, then you probably will not grow much from reading it. It may be entertaining, but not enlarging to your...

So I kept reading, just to stay alive. In fact, I’d read two or three books at the same time, so I wouldn’t finish one without being in the middle of another — anything to...

Surround yourself with music. Just be sure to turn the radio on.

The child who gets lost in a book can emerge from the experience a changeling.

Reading feeds the soul, writing nourishes it!

He kissed me for a long moment, holding my shoulders, perhaps to keep me from pressing my whole body against his. Then he tried to lift my bag.”My God,” he said. “What happened?””I found out...

You know what pulp is, Mr. Tallis? It’s the flesh of a luscious fruit, mashed down into an incredible, half liquid richness. so saturated with flavor that it fills your whole body, not just your...

A book is more than a verbal structure or series of verbal structures; it is the dialogue it establishes with its reader and the intonation it imposes upon his voice and the changing and durable...

Learning and knowing something is cool, but superb knowledge comes when you leave your books and become the inner world’s friend.

The second death. To think that you died and no one would remember you. I wondered if this was why we tried so hard to make our mark in America. To be known. Think of...

By reading older books we get a taste of the conversation of Heaven.

I wanted to pull down a book, open it proper, and gobble up page after page

I think that pretty much every form of fiction (I’d include fantasy, obviously) can actually be a real escape from places where you feel bad, and from bad places. It can be a safe place...

I don’t believe one reads to escape reality. A person reads to confirm a reality he knows is there, but which he has not experienced.

I was always reading books when I should have been doing math and the rest of it.

Jane’s stories are too sensible. Then Diana puts too much murders into hers. She says most of the time she doesn’t know what to do with the people so she kills them off to get...

I read a lot of books. Here are the books I’m using for my 9/11 project. [Wright gestures to three six-foot-long shelves of books.] As I read them I highlight certain passages. Then I have...

I read my eyes out and can’t read half enough…the more one reads the more one sees we have to read.

Everybody comes to the library naked. That’s why they come here – to dress themselves in books.

I am an Author a person who plays with words so they can dance in the minds of others

The written word can make one pause and contemplate. It can make a reader sigh to dream or question a belief in considerable depth. But all of that is nothing if those words fail to...

I don’t know why we stopped reading together, but gradually we were not doing it regularly, and then without realizing it was happening we were reading different books, and gradually we came not to care...

If there’s a book you really want to read but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.- Toni Morrison

Sorry, he said penitently. It’s a book. I have no common sense around them.

I shall remain on Mars and read a book.

if a book isn’t self-explanatory, then it isn’t worth reading.

I was maybe 19 years old. And I always remember that it was a great feeling of happiness. Because of that, I said to Myles that it’s no different for me if I am read­ing...

Even for studies, where expenditure is most honorable, it is justifiable only so long as it is kept within bounds. What is the use of having countless books and libraries, whose titles their owners can...

A man’s bookcase will tell you everything you’ll ever need to know about him.

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Where books had been a comfort before, they became a necessity, old books best of all: thick heavy tomes with stories that spread and twisted through other worlds, where he could walk like a ghost...

Experience life, pick up a good book and appreciate the moment, for the moment, not the replay.

This is what reading is like to me. It’s finding a spring in the midst of a barren land. Just when I think I might up and die of thirst, I stumble onto this fresh,...

You get to know someone better not when they talk about themselves, but when they talk about others

I read to be alone. I read so as not to be alone.

I am always chilled and astonished by the would-be writers who ask me for advice and admit, quite blithely, that they “don’t have time to read.” This is like a guy starting up Mount Everest...

If on the other hand we found even one reader to whom the cheap little book with its double columns and the lurid daub on its cover had been a lifelong delight, who had read...