Editors can be stupid at times. They just ignore that author’s intention. I always try to read unabridged editions, so much is lost with cut versions of classic literature, even movies don’t make sense when...

In life you only get what you put in, the same is true for reading.

How my life has been brought to undiscovered lands, and how much richer it gets – all from words printed on a page…. How a book can have 560 pages, but in only three pages...

There’s nothing wrong with reading a book you love over and over. When you do, the words get inside you, become a part of you, in a way that words in a book you’ve read...

Reading is my passion and my escape since I was 5 years old. Overall, children don’t realize the magic that can live inside their own heads. Better even then any movie.

There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing.

Let my temptation be a book, which I shall purchase, hold and keep.

Reading books would be boring if you lack imagination…

Curioso: tal como el escritor selecciona un género -muchas veces no por voluntad propia, sino por las afinidades, las inclinaciones, los gustos- en el cual se siente a sus anchas, lo mismo sucede con el...

The book was in her lap; she had read no further. The power to change one’s life comes from a paragraph, a lone remark. The lines that penetrate us are slender, like the flukes that...

Reading a book is like having the ability to dip a straw into the author’s soul and sip and slurp without lowering the water table of wisdom.

You may not attain the highest height with one leap but my dear; you will reach your destination.

The Prince came to give life unto those whose lives were almost being snuffed out by the devil via the cares of this world.

Every night I pray I whisper into a megaphone, not only so God is sure to hear, but also my neighbors, because I pray to God He’ll deliver pestilence and plague to the residents next...

I will tell everyone I know to come [to the library]. This place saves lives.

I can read lips. Especially if they have words tattooed on them.

Weren’t all books ultimately related? After all, the same letters filled them, just arranged in a different order. Which meant that, in a certain way, every book was contained in every other!

Reading haiku is as much an art as writing it. The reader needs to pause and listen to the silences, to feel the spaces between the words, and to journey into the depths of many...

So much of reading and writing to me is about being elsewhere, no matter how much I love where I am.

Sleep is good, he said, And books are better.

This book is impossible to put down!” Well, apparently it’s also impossible to pick up.

The red firelight glowed on their two bonny heads and revealed their faces, animated with the eager interest of children; for, though he was twenty-three and she eighteen, each had so much of novelty to...

When Suzie introduced Helen, she told the audience that one of the best things about books is that they are an interactive art form: that while the author may describe in some detail how a...

He has described in precise, measured words the beautiful desolation he feels at the close of novels where the message is that there is no end to human suffering, only endurance.

I decide a book is bad if I get angrier and angrier as I read it.

I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! — When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable...

..he read whatever came his way, as if it had been ordained by fate,..

It may be escapist, but if I have a choice between watching the news or reading a book which gets me to see the world through different eyes, I will always choose the latter!

You think that’s why I love reading novels so much?

Read it. Know it. Use it.

People who say they don’t have time to read simply don’t want to.

Wo nehm ich nur all die Zeit her, so viel nicht zu lesen?

My alma mater was books, a good library…. I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.

A book is a magic carpet that flies you off somewhere. A book is a door. You open it. You step through. Do you come back?

Don’t just read words,’ he would tell her as he held up the latest story, ‘devour them. Let the words create new worlds.

Of course you can trust me,” Jake Hix said. “We read the same books.

When a child is born, I once explained to the kids, some dads lay down bottles of wine for them that will mature when they grow up into ungrateful adults. Instead, what you’re going to...

I love digging myself into books because the moment I’m drifted from reality, I’m in a different world and I’m a different person.

Maybe Heaven will be a library and then I might get to finish my ‘to-read’ list.

Books are absent teachers.

There are forces working in the world as never before in the history of mankind for standardization, for the regimentation of us all, or what I like to call making muffins of us, muffins all...

There is nothing political about American literature.

Poetry is a connection to a change within you.

Do the children who prefer books set in the real, ordinary, workaday world ever read as obsessively as those who would much rather be transported into other worlds entirely?

Are you a reader? Well, good for you!

Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.

‎Reading good literature is an experience of pleasure…but it is also an experience of learning what and how we are, in our human integrity and our human imperfection, with our actions, our dreams, and our...

Instapaper wouldn’t be of as much value if it weren’t for these mobile and e-reader devices. They give you a separate physical context for reading.

By reading the writings of the most interesting minds in history, we meditate with our own minds and theirs as well. This is to me is a miracle.

I write because I’m free,because I can,because I will. I write because I must,because I’m breathing,because I’d go crazy otherwise,because it’s who I am.I write to make a statement,to share my thoughts,to discover myself,to express...