School made us ‘literate’ but did not teach us to read for pleasure.

Life is busy passing us by while we’re busy saying hello and goodbye

Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.

Don’t dwell on the mistakes of the past while the mistakes of the future are waiting for you

The child intuitively comprehends that although these stories are unreal, they are not untrue …

Shockingly, too many of our children don’t read to grade level. Studies show that if a child does not read to grade level by third grade, that child is likely to drop out of school....

And every book, you find, has its own social group–friends of its own it wants to introduce you to, like a party in the library that need never, ever end.

Physical vision – one might say scientific vision – brings about a metaphysical shift in the observer’s view of reality as a whole. The geography of the earth, or the structure of the solar system,...

And sometimes, when the stars are kind, we read with an intake of breath, with a shudder, as if someone or something had ‘walked over our grave,’ as if a memory had suddenly been rescued...

A book won’t move your eyes for you like TV or a movie does. A book won’t move your mind unless you give it your mind, or your heart unless you put your heart in...

Lesen heißt mit einem fremden Kopfe, statt des eigenen, denken.

There are plenty of bad editors who try to impose their own vision on a book. (…)A good novel editor is invisible.

I asked her what a true story was because I thought that all stories were made up. She said a true story was called fact, and a made-up story was called ficton. Auntie May said...

You don’t read Gatsby, I said, to learn whether adultery is good or bad but to learn about how complicated issues such as adultery and fidelity and marriage are. A great novel heightens your senses...

Read. You can always talk with another reader.

This week I’ve been reading a lot and doing little work. That’s the way things ought to be. That’s surely the road to success.

Digital distribution has widened the reading world.

I have a shelf of comfort books, which I read when the world closes in on me or something untoward happens.

Here in the realm of books she’s self-assured. She has some of the control she doesn’t have anywhere else.

An unread book does nobody any good. Stories happen in the mind of a reader, not among symbols printed on a page.

While the other women turned back to their talk of Saint-Germain, she took the opportunity to curl into her chair again and read, and so remove herself from all her greater cares and all the...

It was a joy! Words weren’t dull, words were things that could make your mind hum. If you read them and let yourself feel the magic, you could live without pain, with hope, no matter...

Criticism demands infinitely more culture than artistic creation.

People love to read about sins and errors, but not their own.

Reading is dreaming with open eyes

Books to the people!

It’s a rare book that wins the battle against drooping eyelids.

Will I have to use a dictionary to read your book?” asked Mrs. Dodypol. “It depends,” says I, “how much you used the dictionary before you read it.

A homeless man visited my store today. The few quarters that he had in his pocket he invested on books. I offered him free books, but he insisted on giving me his quarters. He walked...

Reading off a page is like looking down at a landscape from a balloon – your eye “sees” the story as well as reads it, its layout, its paragraphs and structure, and “remembers” what it...

As I walked in the dark through the tunnels and tunnels of books, I could not help being overcome by a sense of sadness. I couldn’t help thinking that if I, by pure chance. had...

He swatted at her with his book. “Shut up and read, will you?”He lay back down and closed his eyes. Emma glanced over to check that he was smiling, and smiled too.

Reading is a lot like fine dining… Some readers prefer just the meat and potatoes; I enjoy a seven-course meal.

…but what, in this life, is more personal than books?

Libraries can in general be too narrow or too wide for the soul.

The age of the pulp magazine was the last in which youngsters, to get their primitive material, were forced to be literate.

Indeed, learning to write may be part of learning to read. For all I know, writing comes out of a superior devotion to reading.

I’m always reading and looking around for the next thing.

She did not care very much for other little girls, but if she had plenty of books she could console herself.

More than at any other time, when I hold a beloved book in my hand my limitations fall from me, my spirit is free.

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted …but to weigh and consider.

Don’t die without fulfilling your purpose.

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.