Don’t be amazed if you see my eyes always wandering. In fact, this is my way of reading, and it is only in this way that reading proves fruitful to me. If a book truly...

Euripides “questioned everything. He was a misanthrope who preferred books to men.

Aesthetic criticism returns us to the autonomy of imaginative literature and the sovereignty of the solitary soul, the reader not as a person in society but as the deep self, our ultimate inwardness.

Some people read books on musicians, while I read music books. Not books on music, but literally books full of sheet music. Fascinating reading.

I read about sneezing and immediately sneezed. I must be allergic to reading.

Now you tell your father not to teach you any more. It’s best to begin reading with a fresh mind. You tell him I’ll take over from here and try to undo the damage–

To prohibit the reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves.

No construirás una máquina a semejanza de la mente del hombre.-Biblia católica naranja-

Books are both our luxuries and our daily bread.

I am no novel-reader — I seldom look into novels — Do not imagine that I often read novels — It is really very well for a novel.” Such is the common cant. “And what...

Students will read if we give them the books, the time, and the enthusiastic encouragement to do so. If we make them wait for the one unit a year in which they are allowed to...

Read. Everything you can get your hands on. Read until words become your friends. Them when you need to find one, they will jump into your mind, waving their hands for you to pick them....

Envy, as distasteful as it is, has seeped into my mind on rare occasions, and those I’ve envied, although few in number, have only been those that live a life of leisure with peace of...

You and me will read a book and find three interesting things that we remember. But Colin finds everything intriguing. He reads a book about presidents and he remembers more of it because everything he...

Those who scorn you taunt only themselves — I knew this without reading one word; because in reading one is reminded of the truth man is given at birth — by man I mean man...

I had found my religion: nothing seemed more important to me than a book. I saw the library as a temple.

I had lines inside me, a string of guiding lights. I had language. Fiction and poetry are doses, medicines. What they heal is the rupture reality makes on the imagination. I had been damaged, and...

[W]hat people truly desire is access to the knowledge and information that ultimately lead to a better life–the collected wisdom of the ages found only in one place: a well-stocked library.To the teachers and librarians...

Good books makes good life.

In the past few years I’ve assigned books to be read before a student attends one of my weeklong seminars. I have been astonished by how few people — people who supposedly want to write...

Insure your reading is in alignment with your goals. Read everything you can find on your goals and your profession. It’s the best investment you can make.

Never regret losing time on reading good books

Dave and Serge…played the Fiddler’s Elbow as if it were Giants Stadium, and even though it was acoustic, they just about blew the place up. They were standing on chairs adn lying on the floor,...

… a practical problem can only be solved by action itself. When your practical problem is how to earn a living, a book on how to make friends and influence people cannot solve it, though...

Books do pretend …but squeezed in between is even more that is true—without what you may call the lies, the pages would be too light for the truth, you see?

Women with clean houses do not have finished books.

I was assigned to the office of a recently deceased faculty member; the office hadn’t been cleaned out yet, and a few days before the fall term began, I unlocked the door to find a...

All of us can think of a book… that we hope none of our children or any other children have taken off the shelf. But if I have the right to remove that book from...

Well, we never expected this!” they all say. “No one liked her. They all said she was pretentious, awkward, difficult to approach, prickly, too fond of her tales, haughty, prone to versifying, disdainful, cantankerous, and...

Mom is a compulsive reader. She reads for pleasure, she reads to edify herself, but more often than not, she reads because she can’t help it. I understand. The minute I find myself sitting still,...

Of all man’s instruments, the most wondrous, no doubt, is the book. The other instruments are extensions of his body. The microscope, the telescope, are extensions of his sight; the telephone is the extension of...

The most potent recreational activity is when we sit back and exercise our minds with great and exciting books.

It looks like it’s wasting time, but literature is actually the ultimate time-saver – because it gives us access to a range of emotions and events that it would take you years, decades, millennia to...

It has never been easier to get books but never harder to find the quiet needed to study them.

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

I don’t think there is such a thing as a bad book for children . . . do not discourage children from reading because you feel they are reading the wrong thing. Fiction you do...

I “love” reading.It makes me feel like I am swallowing up Christ, Homer, Confucius, Newton, Franklin, Socrates, Caesar, and the whole world into one gigantic invincible Sir Moffat. Mine is creative reading. I read building...

Trust me, though, the words were on their way, and when they arrived, Liesel would hold them in her hands like the clouds, and she would wring them out, like the rain. (p. 85)

When you discover the joy of reading, your mind opens to a world of wondrous discoveries and infinite possibilities.

Reading alters the appearance of a book. Once it has been read, it never looks the same again, and people leave their individual imprint on a book they have read. Once of the pleasures of...

A taste for literature and a turn for business, united in the same person, never fails to make a great man.

When you learn to read you will be born again…and you will never be quite so alone again.

I love words. I crave descriptions that overwhelm my imagination with vivid detail. I dwell on phrases that make my heart thrum. I cherish expressions that pierce my emotions and force the tears to spill...

Am reading more of Oscar Wilde. What a tiresome, affected sod.

Some books mirror reality while others are entirely fantasy. My favorite are those that manage to weave a world with both.

I was first a reader and without readers what would be the point in writing. For those of you who love a good story, thank you for being willing to read what we writerly folk...

Keine Frage, die Kunst des Lesens war etwas, um das sie ihn beneidete. Was musste das für ein Gefühl sein, in fremde Welten einzutauchen, nur mit den Augen und durch das Zusammensetzen einiger kryptischer Zeichen?...

Anyone who reads, even one from the remote Southwest at the far end of an attenuated tradition, is to some extent a citizen of the world, and I had been a hungry reader all my...

She reads a lot of books. Good things, books.

Compulsive reading relieves the anxiety that comes from tramping through the forest of meditation in search of clearings.