You need to read more science fiction. Nobody who reads science fiction comes out with this crap about the end of history

Proust is a hero of mine. I read ‘A la recherche’ in one go, and I’m a very slow reader. It had an astonishing impact, reading it on my own and being my main company....

Think before you speak,and read before you think.

Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.

Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.

An intelligent woman is a goldmine! She has the ability to learn, reason and understand things better and faster than her contemporaries. She is competent, alert and can reason out stuffs easily.

God is not a thief. That which steals, kills and destroys is the devil – not God!

Well-wrought poems and works of imaginative literature can do for us what stone-cold prose can never do. They can help us grasp the full dimension of ways of life other than our own.

I stubbed my toe just as someone dropped a book into the inside drop box. As I yelped and howled in pain, a child on the other side said, ‘Mommy, I think we hurt the...

Literature is the supreme means by which you renew your sensuous and emotional life and learn a new awareness.

Elinor had read countless stories in which the main characters fell sick at some point because they were so unhappy. She had always thought that a very romantic idea, but she’d dismissed it as a...

The moment that counts most for me is the one that precedes reading. At times a title is enough to kindle in me the desire for a book that perhaps does not exist.

Reading is a dialog with oneself; it is self-reflection, which cultivates profound humanity. Reading is therefore essential to our development. It expands and enriches the personality like a seed that germinates after a long time...

Even in the hottest fire there’s a bit of water. my The Opposite Of Magic.

In the first few pages, Kundera discusses several abstract historical figures: Robespierre, Nietzsche, Hitler. For Eunice’s sake, I wanted him to get to the plot, to introduce actual “living” characters – I recalled this was...

The guy in the white fedora looks like he’s reading a love letter. I say that only because he looks so confused, what else could the subject matter be?

Jak skvělí jsme bývali pedagogové, když jsme se o pedagogiku pranic nestarali!

As one tends to the graves of the dead, so I tend the books. I clean them, do minor repairs, keep them in good order. And every day I open a volume or two, read...

Dust off that Bible. It has the answers you are looking for, and its delights await you.

I prefer writing in the mornings, so to that extent I have a routine. I do reading and other things in the afternoon.

If we could follow the slogan that says,”Turn off the TV and open a good book” we would do something of substance for a future generation.

to read is to surrender oneself to an endless displacement of curiosity and desire from one sentence to another, from one action to another, from one level of a text to another. The text unveils...

What happened to the classics?” you may ask. “Don’t you believe in reading great literature to children?”Nothing happened to the classics-but something happened to children: their imaginations went to sleep in front of the television...

If you ever meet someone who thinks they are so special, the best thing to do is smile. You don’t have to say anything. Be friendly and then go doyour best. That will make you...

you may always find good books to read but the best and the ultimate book to read is the Holy Bible

Enjoy the read!

…we could think or feel as we wished toward the characters, or as the poet, discounting history, invited us to; we were the poet’s guest, his world was his own kingdom, reached, as one of...

Why should literature be easy? Sometimes you can do what you want to do in a simple, direct way that is absolutely right. Sometimes you can’t. Reading is not a passive act. Books are not...

Literacy is inseparable from opportunity, and opportunity is inseperable from freedom. The freedom promised by literacy is both freedom from – from ignorance, oppression, poverty – and freedom to – to do new things, to...

If I could change the attitude of young men toward literature, I would want them to read not just for escape, but because literature can be more truthful about things like sex, commitment, and aging....

I just need to sit, think, write and read.

You’re either reading a book or you’re not.

I read the fuck out of every book I can get my hands on.

If your friend wishes to read your ‘Plutarch’s Lives,’ ‘Shakespeare,’ or ‘The Federalist Papers,’ tell him gently but firmly, to buy a copy. You will lend him your car or your coat – but your...

I realized that I read books not because of the words used but because of the familiar feelings these words help me express.

Another thing I need to do, when I’m near the end of the book, is sleep in the same room with it…Somehow the book doesn’t leave you when you’re asleep right next to it.

Some books are so familiar that reading them is like being home again.

Environ une demi-seconde après avoir terminé votre livre, après en avoir lu le dernier mot, le lecteur doit se sentir envahi d’un sentiment puissant; pendant un instant, il ne doit plus penser qu’à tout ce...

You know your book is good when you have to put it down just so you can breathe.

The novelist’s happy discovery was to think of substituting for those opaque sections, impenetrable by the human spirit, their equivalent in immaterial sections, things, that is, which the spirit can assimilate to itself. After which...

Daydreaming does not enjoy tremendous prestige in our culture, which tends to regard it as unproductive thought. Writers perhaps appreciate its importance better than most, since a fair amount of what they call work consists...

Once I had opened a book and read its pages, those characters could never be taken away from me. Even if the books were burned, they would still live on in my mind.

I want to write so well that a person is 30 or 40 pages in a book of mine… before she realizes she’s reading.

Someone has said of books that they are our ‘amplest heritages’ of thought, and so they are. That doesn’t necessarily mean that they must be learned or profound. They are food for the mind and...

Antonia José Bolivar préférait ne plus penser, laissant béantes les profondeurs de sa mémoire pour les remplir de bonheur et de tourments d’amour plus éternels que le temps.

Immersing oneself in the problems of a book is a good way to keep from thinking of love.

My only wish is to be buried with my books.

Me and my books, in the same apartment: like a gherkin in its vinegar.

This is what Laura loved about literature. You could see things in it that perhaps weren’t there, but might be. And even that didn’t matter if, in the end, readers needed something to be there....

When I got [my] library card, that was when my life began.