You may have tangible wealth untold. Caskets of jewels and coffers of gold. Richer than I you can never be -I had a mother who read to me

There are a large number of people in the room, but one is unaware of them. They are in the books. At times they move among the pages, like sleepers turning over between two dreams....

You Are Not Special”, 6-12)

Books are like imprisoned souls until someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.

Associate with the noblest people you can find; read the best books; live with the mighty; but learn to be happy alone.

Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators.

Some of the best advice my aunt gave me was if you want to find out more about something you read.

To read fiction means to play a game by which we give sense to the immensity of things that happened, are happening, or will happen in the actual world. By reading narrative, we escape the...

The world was hers for the reading.

The best endings never end; they begin

The true reader reads every work seriously in the sense that he reads it whole-heartedly, makes himself as receptive as he can. But for that very reason he cannot possibly read every work solemly or...

A short story is a different thing all together – a short story is like a kiss in the dark from a stranger.

There is no scent so pleasant to my nostrils as that faint, subtle reek which comes from an ancient book.

Reading takes time, and the glass teat takes too much of it.

By way of this unprecedented, unbridled literary promiscuity, I have made some pleasant discoveries.

Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own.”[The Sick Chamber (The New Monthly Magazine , August 1830)]

As centuries of dictators have known, an illiterate crowd is the easiest to rule; since the craft of reading cannot be untaught once it has been acquired, the second-best recourse is to limit its scope.

If you can read & write then the opportunities are endless, if you just believe in yourself then anything is possible, you can become anyone and do anything, what’s more is, you can take others...

He wanted nothing, for the time being, except to understand …. Without advice, assistance or plan, he began reading an incongruous assortment of books; he would find some passage which he could not understand in...

Imogen was a bright girl naturally, but she had read so many novels that her brain was completely turned.

Reading doesn’t mean accepting everything you read, it means reasoning everything you read.

And no matter what anybody says, I don’t believe all this trouble started when women got the vote. As far as I’m concerned, it goddamn well got started when you taught each other how to...

…the reader who plucks a book from her shelf only once is as deprived as the listener who, after attending a single performance of a Beethoven symphony, never hears it again.

Reading is dreaming. Reading is entering a world of imagination shared between reader and author. Reading is getting beyond the words to the story or meaning underneath.

I was in Nashville, Tennessee last year. After the show I went to a Waffle House. I’m not proud of it, I was hungry. And I’m alone, I’m eating and I’m reading a book, right?...

Literature was the passport to enter a larger life; that is, the zone of freedom. Literature was freedom. Especially in a time in which the values of reading and inwardness are so strenuously challenged, literature...

Think of this – that the writer wrote alone, and the reader read alone, and they were alone with each other. True, the writer may have been alone also with Spenser’s golden apples in the...

I read a lot. I always have, but in those two years I gorged myself on books with a voluptuous, almost erotic gluttony. I would go to the local library and take out as many...

People don’t read anymore. And, when they do, they don’t read books like this one, but instead read books that depress them, because those books are seen as important. Somehow, the Librarians have successfully managed...

Wisdom, ambition, sadness, joy, malice, grief, amazement, all the emotions which blaze within the human soul may be recorded on a page. Nestled in a sheaf of paper sleeps an infinity beyond the limits of...

I don’t fear death–I fear dying before I’ve read Dickens end to end.

My mother used to read to me every night when I was little. We got through most of the major fantasy books of that time. The Narnia books by C.S. Lewis were my favorites and,...

Having to amuse myself during those earlier years, I read voraciously and widely. Mythic matter and folklore made up much of that reading—retellings of the old stories (Mallory, White, Briggs), anecdotal collections and historical investigations...

No. She reads literature.

I realize that people still read books now and some people actually love them, but in 1946 in the Village our feelings about books–I’m talking about my friends and myself–went beyond love. It was as...

No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.

It would have been easier to have a male protagonist, but I didn’t want people to assume that Nikki Hill was me in her entirety because a lot of people just don’t like me and...

To enjoy and learn from what you read you must understand the meanings of the words a writer uses. You do yourself a grave disservice if you read around words you don’t know, or worse,...

I love the longueurs of a book even if they seem pointless because you can get a peek into the author’s mind, a glimpse of their creative soul.

There is a book for every walk of life. No matter the age, race, or gender there is something that will appeal to you.

She is never alone when she has Her Books. Books, to her, are Friends. Give her Shakespeare or Jane Austen, Meredith or Hardy, and she is Lost – lost in a world of her own....

When you look at a city, it’s like reading the hopes, aspirations and pride of everyone who built it.

I do enjoy reading some science fiction.

Reading the text of my blog itself is not really the interesting part. The exciting part is how the Internet allows me to be the eyes and ears for the people sending me postings from...

I spent much of my prison time reading. I must have read over 200 large books, mostly fictional stories about the American pioneers, the Vikings, Mafia, etc. As long as I was engrossed in a...

My pleasure in reading is not necessarily the witnessing of something new, but of something familiar which I haven’t seen described.

Maybe reading was just a way to make her feel less alone, to keep her company. When you read something you are stopped, the moment is stayed, you can sometimes be there more fully than...

A good [short story] would take me out of myself and then stuff me back in, outsized, now, and uneasy with the fit.

If I could always read I should never feel the want of company.

So cheer up Beloved; for your God is able, He is the maker of all things.