Never give up. Dare to Dream. Dare to believe.

Reading is accumulating knowledge. But not only that. Reading offers us every day what religion promises us for a posthumous and improbable future: the possibility of living beyond what our lifetime allows us to.

I love the place; the magnificent books; I require books as I require air.

I libri non sono un passatempo. Parlano di altre vite. Di altri mondi. Altro che far passare il tempo, Sir Kevin; non so cosa darei per averne di più.

To read narrowly and shallowly is to read from a place of ignorance.

There’s so much to learn. So much to enjoy. So terribly much to be curious about. Take your life and run with it. Make a habit of being alive. This much of anything, I have...

I didn’t want to die – not before I’d finished reading The Return of the Native anyhow.

One reads so as not to believe everything one reads.

I have a rule that I don’t read my press, but then somebody in the crew will be reading it and of course it’s right there, so what do you think I do?

I never read. I just look at pictures.

When you are old and grey and full of sleep And nodding by the fire, take down this book, And slowly read, and dream of the soft look Your eyes had once, and of their...

I think the reason why I don’t read so much, is because as I have observed, whole books all boil down to a drop of essence. You can read a book full of ten thousand...

Let me begin with a heartfelt confession.I admit it. I am a biblioholic, one who loves books and whose life would seem incomplete without them. I am an addict, with a compulsive need to stop...

A book is not complete till it reaches a reader.

People who don’t read fiction are scared of what’s inside their own heads.

Why can’t people just sit and read books and be nice to each other?

My bother was one of the bigger influences in my life, in as much as he told me I didn’t have to read the choice of books that I as recommended at school, and that...

Literature has the ability to open up a whole new world to children, but we need to have a share in helping them to find that door and open it with them. Let’s set the...

Reading is a discount ticket to everywhere.

I’m a reading addict. I can’t live without it, like someone who is addicted to drugs.

There has always been, for me, this other world, this second world to fall back on–a more reliable world in so far as it does not hide that its premise is illusion.

I’m pretty sure my addiction to reading has just reached a whole new level.

Not being the sort to throw a book, she pounded her fist on her cushion.

In a word, literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourse of my book-friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or...

Reading maketh a full man; and writing an axact man. And, therefore, if a man write little, he need have a present wit; and if he read little, he need have much cunning to seem...

Be a King. Dare to be Different, dare to manifest your greatness.

You don’t need to go running from pillar to post looking for what God looks like.

This will never be a civilized country until we expend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.

I don’t have time for invisible books when there are so many real books to read.

Loads of children read books about dinosaurs, underwater monsters, dragons, witches, aliens, and robots. Essentially, the people who read SF, fantasy and horror haven’t grown out of enjoying the strange and weird.

The world was a terrible place, cruel, pitiless, dark as a bad dream. Not a good place to live. Only in books could you find pity, comfort, happiness – and love. Books loved anyone who...

The imperative to take notes as one read moved the seventeenth century Jesuit scholar Jeremias Drexel to write that, ‘reading is useless, vain and silly when no writing is involved, unless you are reading [devotionally]...

they’re simple stories. Real life is a story, too, only much more complicated. It’s still got a beginning, a middle, and an end. Everyone follows the same rules, you know. . . It’s just that...

A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.

How can we read when people need our help? It’s a luxury. A stupid luxury.

I never read Playboy before I started working there and stopped reading it the day I quit.

What was a book? Not just ink and fiber and stitchery: a series of processes. To a wizard, it was not a static object–but a human thought caught and bound, made concrete through sacred technology....

My father never put a book into my hands and never forbade a book. Instead, he let me roam and graze, making my own more or less appropriate selections. I read gory tales of historic...

She had forced herself to learn to read – picked up bits and pieces, here and there, from the very few teachers who had been patient with her; from looking at words while out and...

The progress of the friendship between Catherine and Isabella was quick as its beginning had been warm…and if a rainy morning deprived them of other enjoyments, they were still resolute in meeting in defiance of...

There is something wonderful about a book. We can pick it up. We can heft it. We can read it. We can set it down. We can think of what we have read. It does...

In his library he had been always sure of leisure and tranquility; and though prepared, as he told Elizabeth, to meet with folly and conceit in every other room in the house, he was used...

Can you think of a better way to tell?

Our library isn’t very extensive,” said Anne, “but every book in it is a friend. We’ve picked our books up through the years, here and there, never buying one until we had first read it...

It’s very difficult for a black man to get out of South-Central Los Angeles, and get out civilized….The only men I know who have escaped, all began reading Robert Heinlein at age ten.

Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.

Discovery a good book is like finding a great treasure.

If you write without reading, you will certainly have too many books without readers.

My first addiction was to books. -B. Chelsea Adams

Keep anyone with whom you can read in silence.