THE VOICE YOU HEAR WHEN YOU READ SILENTLYis not silent, it is a speaking-out-loud voice in your head; it is *spoken*,a voice is *saying* itas you read. It’s the writer’s words,of course, in a literary...

I stretched out my hand towards the little bookshelf where I kept cookery and devotional books, the most comfortable bedside reading.

He enjoyed reading and writing. He liked words. Words didn’t shout or make loud noises, which pretty much defined the rest of his family. They didn’t involve getting muddy in the freezing cold. They didn’t...

Suddenly the reader’s eyes were filled with tears, and a loving voice whispered in his ear: -Why are you crying if everything in that book isn’t true?- And the reader replied: -I know; but what...

The books—the generous friends who met me without suspicion—the merciful masters who never used me ill! The only years of my life that I can look back on with something like pride… Early and late,...

Once you read a classic, you will start loving even the smell of the books.

I inhaled the musty, leathery, old-papery scent and a shiver passed over me. If I had any idea of heaven, it was this: shelves and shelves of books, ten times as many as were upstairs,...

Statistically, if you’re reading this sentence, you’re an oddball. The average American spends three minutes a day reading a book. At this moment, you and I are engaged in an essentially antiquated interaction. Welcome, fellow...

This book (Jarod Kintz’s book) is trash. I mean, I assume it is, because that’s where I found it while scrounging for lunch. However, I must admit that I haven’t read it. I would have,...

Everybody is a book of blood; wherever we’re opened, we’re red.

[…] students should be told that an effort is always required, when you start to read a serious author, to overcome mental laziness and reluctance, because you are about to enter the mind of someone...

What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.

Una y otra vez, los lectores se han condicionado mutuamente.

My early and invincible love of reading–I would not exchange for the treasures of India.

One day I would have all the books in the world, shelves and shelves of them. I would live my life in a tower of books. I would read all day long and eat peaches....

I do not have more information after reading a poem; I have more experience.

We read about you to be with you, to walk in someone else’s shoes, to experience another life. Some of those lives are hard, and others are easy, but we’re with you every step of...

Literature is my Utopia

Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

Patience is a virtue not a vice.

God comes down in the evenings to chat with man, enjoy man’s company and find out how man faired in the course of the day.

I am most interested in encouraging Christians to think and read well. Christians, of all people, should reflect the mind of their Maker. Learning to read well is a step toward loving God with your...

Because most of the girls were still in mourning and all of them had lost their textbooks, even pencils and pens, Shaukat Ali began the first classes by reading to them from poetry and religious...

I demand from a book harmony as unity and moderation; that determines the choice of words, the type and number of metaphors, the development and conclusion

I love the newspaper. I love reading fiction.

You turn the book over in your hands, you scan the sentences on the back of the jacket, generic phrases that don’t say a great deal. So much the better, there is no message that...

The true felicity of a lover of books is the luxurious turning of page by page, the surrender, not meanly abject, but deliberate and cautious, with your wits about you, as you deliver yourself into...

…the primary trait of young adult literature is that the author’s emphasis is on plot and character and not on his own brilliance. And because few people talk about whether a young adult work is...

The real world dissolved and I was free to drift in fantasy, living a thousand lives, each one more powerful, more accessible, and more real than my own

I had a dream about you. You had four legs like a cat has four legs like a chair has four legs, and I was looking for a place to sit. Then you meowed at...

Nechuť ke čtení je nám ještě nepochopitelnější, pokud pocházíme z generace, z doby, z prostředí či z rodiny, kde nám číst spíše zakazovali.”Přestaň už s tím čtením, zkazíš si oči!””Jdi si radši hrát ven, je...

Do you know the feeling when you start reading a new book before the membrane of the last one has had time to close behind you? You leave the previous book with ideas and themes–characters...

What you read between the covers of your Bible is wisdom for a lifetime, rock-solid, forever truth—truth you can stand on, live by, and trust…forever.

I declare, there is no enjoyment like reading.

I am no indiscriminate novel reader. The mere trash of the common circulating library I hold in the highest contempt.

The first time I read an excellent work, it is to me just as if I gained a new friend; and when I read over a book I have perused before, it resembles the meeting...

Instead of educating the I.Q., we need to educate the H.Q., the heart quotient, the matters of truth, love, justice, and compassion. There are two ways to do this. One is through the read life...

Not that she objected to solitude. Quite the contrary. She had books, thank Heaven, quantities of books. All sorts of books.

Reading is a choice. The will to do depends the reader. We may or may not do it but when we kill reading, we kill a purposeful mind. Reading a page of a purposeful book...

The finest music in the room is that which streams out to the ear of the spirit in many an exquisite strain from the little shelf of books on the opposite wall. Every volume there...

Appalling things can happen to children. And even a happy childhood is filled with sadnesses. Is there any other period in your life when you hate your best friend on Monday and love them again...

Reading yourself as a fiction as well as a fact is the only way to keep the narrative open – the only way to stop the story from running away under its own momentum, often...

If you wanted to be average, you would not be reading this book.

I’m a reader who uses fiction as a way of worrying about life.

The true birthplace is that wherein for the first time one looks intelligently upon oneself; my first homelands have been books, and to a lesser degree schools.

… l’unica compagnia erano le pagine con le orecchie dei suoi romanzi, mentre se ne stava seduta con aria imbronciata sulla poltrona

Great writers wield their words like a weapon; a double-edged sword to strike their readers with truth where they least expect it. -Matthew D. Forgenti

I have good reason to be content,for thank God I can read andperhaps understand Shakespeare to his depths.

One of the ironies of college is that the impossibility of reading your way out of the modern predicament is something you learn about, as a student, by reading. Part of the value of a...

We tell ourselves stories in order to live.