And books! …she would buy them all over and over again; she would buy up every copy, I believe, to prevent their falling into unworthy hands; and she would have every book that tells her...

The present is not so glorious but that I should wish to dwell a little in the past.

Of course, reading novels was just another form of escape. As soon as he closed their pages he had to come back to the real world. But at some point Tengo noticed that returning to...

It was a day and age that saw no reason why one could not learn whatever was required – learn vitally anything – by the close study of books.

Op visite in zo’n ongestoffeerd huis kun je moeilijk aan de gastheer vragen of u even op zijn iPad mag kijken wat hij de laatste tijd zoal gelezen heeft.

In those days, there was no money to buy books.

Write it down, boy. If you come across a passage in your reading that you’d like to remember, write it down in your little book; then you can read it again, memorize it, and have...

I find myself anticipating a new kind of storyteller, on who is half hacker, half bard.

…la alegría infantil de sumergirse en una conversación inesperada con un completo desconocido para descubrirse, horas después -y bajo toneladas hipercalóricas de “,leíste a tal?”. “¡Sí! ,Y leíste a tal?”. “¡Sí! ,Y leíste a tal?”-,...

Book:Sharing of life and experiences with other people.This is lifetime notes for all generations.

People don’t expect too much from literature. They just want to know they’re not alone with being confused.

I could just slit your throat and go back to reading.

I can read. A little. I kind of protested it in School(TM). On the grounds that the silent ‘E’ is stupid.

You may think that you don’t want to read about the problems of being brought up Mennonite, but the great thing about books is that you’ll read anything a good writer wants you to read.

Reading books is a way for you to communicate with and learn from the best thinkers that are writing today and that have ever lived.

That’s what I love about reading: one tiny thing will interest you in a book, and that tiny thing will lead you to another book, and another bit there will lead you onto a third...

Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another’s skin, another’s voice, another’s soul.

Read a thousand books, and your words will flow like a river.

And that is the problem with a society that doesn’t read books. The most painful form of censorship does not come from a centralized, repressive government. It is a cast, black cloak of a nation’s...

If winter helps you curl up and more that makes it one of the best of the seasons.

In all memory there is a degree of fallenness; we are all exiles from our own pasts, just as, on looking up from a book, we discover anew our banishment from the bright worlds of...

Chicken Soup for the Soul”. You’ve heard of these books, am I right? We’ve all heard of them. But I wonder if you’re aware of just how many “Chicken Soup” books exist on the planet....

You will find most books worth reading are worth reading twice.

Now that his children had grown into their lives, their own children too, there was no one who needed more than the idea of him, and he thought maybe that was why he had this...

Grab a book, coz reading is wound healing. – ME

Sometimes I sensed that the books I read in rapid succession had set up some sort of murmur among themselves, transforming my head into an orchestra pit where different musical instruments sounded out, and I...

The summer passed quietly. I busied myself as best I could, reading a good deal.

We’re all strangers connected by what we reveal, what we share, what we take away–our stories. I guess that’s what I love about books–they are thin strands of humanity that tether us to one another...

Oh for a book and a shady nook,Either indoors or out,with the green leaves whispering overhead,or the street cries all about.Where I may read at all my easeboth of the new and old,For a jolly...

Reading good books is like engaging in conversation with the most cultivated minds of past centuries who had composed them, or rather, taking part in a well-conducted dialogue in which such minds reveal to us...

To be a better cook, cook more. To be a better writer, read more.

A person who does not read cannot think. He may have good mental processes, but he has nothing to think about. You can feel for people or natural phenomena and react to them, but they...

I learned to dream through reading, learned to create dreams through writing, and learned to develop dreamers through teaching. I shall always be a dreamer.

When a person reaches the end of a book and says, ‘I want to read that again,’ what he’s actually saying is that he wants to mentally merge with his favorite character and stroll among...

It seemed any young woman at odds with her place in life–be she a genteel lady or a serving girl–might find a happier home within the pages of a book.

Belikov is a sick, evil man who should be thrown into a pit of rabid vipers for the great offense he commited against you this morning.””Thank you.” I said primly. Then, I considered. “Can vipers...

I wear glasses, and maybe you do, too. Mine probably cost about the same as yours. Would you trade lenses with me just because I asked you to? Of course not!That would be silly because...

Le Vrai lecteur écrit le livre en le lisant.

A good story is a dream shared by the author and the reader. Anything that wakes the reader from the dream is a mortal sin.

You’ll get younger not from what you read but from what you apply in your life. (192)

On Friday night, I was reading my new book, but my brain got tired, so I decided to watch some television instead.

People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.

You read a book for the story, for each of its words,” Gordy said, “and you draw your cartoons for the story, for each of the words and images. And, yeah, you need to take...

The reality of a serious writer is a reality of many voices, some of them belonging to the writer, some of them belonging to the world of readers at large.

In fact, the Devil is delighted when we spend our time and energy defending the Bible, as long as we do not get around to actually reading the Bible.

Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.

Bad eyesight is a very good thing when in love

Naturally, since I myself am a writer, I do not wish the ordinary reader to read no modern books. But if he must read only the new or only the old, I would advise him...

Capitulating when losing is an issue in war; capitulating when winning is an issue in love

I care not how humble your bookshelf may be, or how lonely the room which it adorns. Close the door of that room behind you, shut off with it all the cares of the outer...