I can read. A little. I kind of protested it in School(TM). On the grounds that the silent ‘E’ is stupid.

You may think that you don’t want to read about the problems of being brought up Mennonite, but the great thing about books is that you’ll read anything a good writer wants you to read.

The best protection against propaganda of any sort is the recognition of it for what it is. Only hidden and undetected oratory is really insidious. What reaches the heart without going through the mind is...

Warning:This data storage unit, or “book,” has been designed to reprogram the human brain, allowing it to replicate the lost art that was once called reading. It is a simple adjustment and there will be...

Taking the alphabet first and learning one letter a year for twenty-six years he will be able to read and write as early in life as he ought to. If we were more careful not...

Without knowing it, the adults in our lives practiced a most productive kind of behavior modification. After our chores and household duties were done we were give “permission” to read. In other words, our elders...

It’s because of the way you are. It’s why you’re happy reading novels. You’re only comfortable with a piece of the world that you can hold in your hand.

I thought: pity the poor in spirit who know neither the enchantment nor the beauty of language.

When the writing is good, a book becomes a mirror. The reader will see an uncanny familiarity and respond accordingly.

Yo, que me figuraba el Paraíso bajo la especie de una biblioteca.

Don’t run around looking for someone who can sexually satisfy you, run around and look for the book which will intellectually satisfy you.

Natural philosophy is the genius that has regulated my fate; I desire, therefore, in this narration, to state those facts which led to my predilection for that science. When I was thirteen years of age,...

Keep reading. It’s one of the most marvelous adventures that anyone can have.

So I had nothing to distract me from my books and their other worlds that swallowed me whole, from Narnia to the Wisconsin woods, from a small town in Sweden to the red earth of...

We are not reading books merely to check off a list or to be able to say we have read them. We are reading to grow as persons, to know more that we may understand...

We’re all strangers connected by what we reveal, what we share, what we take away–our stories. I guess that’s what I love about books–they are thin strands of humanity that tether us to one another...

Oh for a book and a shady nook,Either indoors or out,with the green leaves whispering overhead,or the street cries all about.Where I may read at all my easeboth of the new and old,For a jolly...

Reading good books is like engaging in conversation with the most cultivated minds of past centuries who had composed them, or rather, taking part in a well-conducted dialogue in which such minds reveal to us...

To be a better cook, cook more. To be a better writer, read more.

A person who does not read cannot think. He may have good mental processes, but he has nothing to think about. You can feel for people or natural phenomena and react to them, but they...

I learned to dream through reading, learned to create dreams through writing, and learned to develop dreamers through teaching. I shall always be a dreamer.

When a person reaches the end of a book and says, ‘I want to read that again,’ what he’s actually saying is that he wants to mentally merge with his favorite character and stroll among...

It seemed any young woman at odds with her place in life–be she a genteel lady or a serving girl–might find a happier home within the pages of a book.

Belikov is a sick, evil man who should be thrown into a pit of rabid vipers for the great offense he commited against you this morning.””Thank you.” I said primly. Then, I considered. “Can vipers...

I wear glasses, and maybe you do, too. Mine probably cost about the same as yours. Would you trade lenses with me just because I asked you to? Of course not!That would be silly because...

Le Vrai lecteur écrit le livre en le lisant.

A good story is a dream shared by the author and the reader. Anything that wakes the reader from the dream is a mortal sin.

You’ll get younger not from what you read but from what you apply in your life. (192)

On Friday night, I was reading my new book, but my brain got tired, so I decided to watch some television instead.

People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.

You read a book for the story, for each of its words,” Gordy said, “and you draw your cartoons for the story, for each of the words and images. And, yeah, you need to take...

The reality of a serious writer is a reality of many voices, some of them belonging to the writer, some of them belonging to the world of readers at large.

In fact, the Devil is delighted when we spend our time and energy defending the Bible, as long as we do not get around to actually reading the Bible.

Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.

Bad eyesight is a very good thing when in love

Naturally, since I myself am a writer, I do not wish the ordinary reader to read no modern books. But if he must read only the new or only the old, I would advise him...

Capitulating when losing is an issue in war; capitulating when winning is an issue in love

I care not how humble your bookshelf may be, or how lonely the room which it adorns. Close the door of that room behind you, shut off with it all the cares of the outer...

‎If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot…reading is the creative center of a writer’s life…you cannot hope to sweep someone...

He started to look at me in a manner I recognized: it was the way I looked at a new book, one I had never read before, one that surprised me with all it had...

If you can’t fuck me while I read, fuck off.

Hinter dem westlichen Konzept einer Idealstadt verbirgt sich die Idee der Privilegierung. Moreau hätte ihm ohne Zweifel zugestimmt.

Some people buy books not to read but to dream, the moment 2-3 sentences read and lost in imagination. Take a paper and begin writing…..

When I say to a parent, ‘read to a child,’ I don’t want it to sound like medicine. I want it to sound like chocolate.

I will write one book that will change entire humankind if only you have enough guts to read my previous ones.

Just read one book a month and at the end of they year you would be totally different but an impressive personality.

We haven’t remained idle, twiddling our thumbs while you were off having a good time. Through books Cathy and I have lived a zillion lives . . . our vicarious way to feel alive.

I’d rather have a book, but in a pinch I’ll settle for a set of Water Pik instructions.

Allowing yourself to stop reading a book – at page 25, 50, or even, less frequently, a few chapters from the end – is a rite of passage in a reader’s life, the literary equivalent...

Why do you think people stopped reading? We read to connect with other minds. But why read when you’re busy writing, describing the fine-grained flotsam of your own life. Compulsively recording every morsel you eat,...