Ah, how good it is to be among people who are reading.

I’m old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised.

The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them.

The only end of writing is to enable readers better to enjoy life or better to endure it.

I write things that I would like to read myself.

Literature for me was a magnificent destiny for which I was not yet fully prepared. 76

Since I became a novelist I have discovered that I am biased. Either I think a new novel is worse than mine and I don’t like it, or I suspect it is better than my...

I consider myself a perpetual student. You seek and learn every day: from an experiment in the lab, from reading a scientific journal, from taking care of a patient. Because of this, I rarely get...

Some people are like fireworks: alluring from a distance, but fatal close up

The paper is my savior, the pen my blood, to words that shed my world.

In life, the faster you move on the more people you’ll have to say goodbye to

The ability to read becomes devalued when what one has learned to read adds nothing of importance to one’s life.

Reading helps children achieve their divine destinies

My ears become my conduit to the world. In the darkness I listen—to thrillers, to detective novels, to romances; to family sagas, potboilers and historical novels; to ghost stories and classic fiction and chick lit;...

I do not care a fig for any woman that knows even what an author means.

READ.

I’m always reading plays, and when I find something that I really want to do, then I’ll make the time to do it.

Now you see, Dr. Stadler, you’re speaking as if this book were addressing to a thinking audience. If it were, one would have to be concerned with such matters as accuracy, validity, logic and the...

She read all sorts of things: travels, and sermons, and old magazines. Nothing was so dull that she couldn’t get through with it. Anything really interesting absorbed her so that she never knew what was...

a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who really care for books read all of them. There is no other course.

And somehow or other, the windows being open, and the book held so that it rested upon a background of escallonia hedges and distant blue, instead of being a book it seemed as if what...

Reading aloud means no skipping, no skimming, no cutting to the chase.

The joy of reading with our children doesn’t stop as they, and we, get older; it simply changes.

In high school, we barely brushed against Ogden Nash, Lewis Carroll, Edward Lear, or any of the other so-unserious writers who delight everyone they touch. This was, after all, a very expensive and important school....

Most of my reading is rereading.

Now and then there are readings that make the hairs on the neck, the non-existent pelt, stand on end and tremble, when every word burns and shines hard and clear and infinite and exact, like...

Curiously enough, one cannot read a book: one can only reread it. A good reader, a major reader, an active and creative reader is a rereader. And I shall tell you why. When we read...

By now, it is probably very late at night, and you have stayed up to read this book when you should have gone to sleep. If this is the case, then I commend you for...

Whenever you read a good book, somewhere in the world a door opens to allow in more light.

Your mind will never be dull, if you remember there is never enough to learn for it to be to full.

Lost in a book is a great place to be found.

magic” of friendship, art, community, and social activism. Although most of his books have not been published specifically for adolescents and young adults, nonetheless young readers find them and embrace them with particular passion. I’ve...

And all you can do is just read,” she said. She raised her voice an screamed, “You just read and read and read!” Then she threw herself down on the table and wept.

The things young women read nowadays and profess to enjoy positively frighten me.

Books are in the mind, Grandfather Alessandro said. Too many books and you forget your body is in the world.

Back home, I went to my closet and pulled out the old engineer’s transit case stored there. When we were kids, Emma and I had found it in the attic, dusty and empty, and the...

It’s difficult to quantify precisely the effect of books on our lives – but generally speaking, it’s enormous.

The man who takes up nothing but a newspaper, but reads it to think, to deduct conclusions from its premises, and form a judgment on its opinions, is more fitted for society than he, who...

If you want to find out if someone is a true bookworm or not, give them a thousand page novel and see what happens.

Why wait for the movie tomorrow, when you can read the book today!

The best way to learn about books … is to spend time with them, talk about them, defend them.

If I couldn’t sleep, I could read.

Though I enjoy the occasional eBook from time to time, I will only stop reading books printed on paper when they pry them from my cold, dead, withered hands, and even then, they will be...

The delights of reading impart the vivacity of youth even to old age.

Not so, however, with books, for books cannot change. A thousand years hence they are what you find them to-day, speaking the same words, holding forth the same cheer, the same promise, the same comfort;...

She had lolled about for three years at Girton with the kind of books she could equally have read at home–Jane Austen, Dickens, Conrad, all in the library downstairs, in complete sets. How had that...

We rely upon the poets, the philosophers, and the playwrights to articulate what most of us can only feel, in joy or sorrow. They illuminate the thoughts for which we only grope; they give us...

He liked to read with the silence and the golden color of the whiskey as his companions. He liked food, people, talk, but reading was an inexhaustible pleasure. What the joys of music were to...

A writer must be a lifelong reader to be good. And if you want to be a great writer, I’d suggest trying to live a long life by reading the ingredients of the foods you...

Your decision not to join the crowd may be what God is waiting for to grant you revelation on how to deliver your family, your country, business, profession or even your church!