Shelves full of books are all around me. Opening the different volumes I take a look, and find the pages covered with writings in unknown scripts — tadpole traces, bird feet markings, twisted branches. And...

Learning and reading will enrich your life with wisdom for living.

I would like my personal reading map to resemble a map of the British Empire circa 1900.

We live to read.

Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you.

It sounds extraordinary but it’s a fact that balance sheets can make fascinating reading.

Reading a novel after reading semiotic theory was like jogging empty-handed after jogging with hand weights. What exquisite guilt she felt, wickedly enjoying narrative! Madeleine felt safe with a nineteenth century novel. There were going...

The truth is that every true admirer of the novels cherishes the happy thought that he alone – reading between the lines – has bcome the secret friend of their author.

Hey you, read a book. Now.

In the sort of screen dappled with different states of mind which my consciousness would simultaneously unfold while I read, and which ranged from the aspirations hidden deepest within me to the completely exterior vision...

Because of literature we can decipher, at least partially, the hieroglyphic that existence tends to be for the great majority of human beings.

A leitura nos dá a Liberdade de um felino

I propose that every person out of work be required to submit a book report before he or she gets his or her welfare check.

That’s what I do. Watch movies and read. Sometimes I even pretend to write, but I’m not fooling anyone. Oh, and I go to the mailbox.

READ, READ, KEEP READING. UNTIL YOU KICK THE BUCKET.

He wanted to run through the stacks, pick at the books, sample them one after the other, climb the stacks to their highest reaches and see what treasures were hidden there.

You have to remember that it is impossible to commit a crime while reading a book.

A word after a word after a word is power.

They must talk to each other directly, Ender, mind to mind. What one thinks, another can also think; what one remembers, another can also re-member. Why would they ever develop language? Why would they ever...

A fortress built long ago,Walls made timeless by historic glory.The small girl in the boat slows,To listen to its story.

Men of power have not time to read, yet men who do not read are not fit for power.

Don’t you ever do anything other than read?” said Chaol.

I have built a city from the books I’ve read. A good book sings a a timeless music that is heard in the choir lofts, and balconies, and theaters that thrived within that secret city...

Only a true reader will understand how lovely it is to read a book on rainy days.

He read as others pray, as gamblers follow the spinning of the roulette wheel, as drunkards stare into vacancy; he read with such profound absorption that ever since I first watched him the reading of...

Do you know what it is?’ [Toby] said thoughtfully. ‘It’s that they haven’t had anything really awful happen to them. No wonder they seem so superficial and unfeeling.’ It was certainly an interesting theory, …...

To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.

Only if the third necessary thing could be given us. Number one, as I said: quality of information. Number two: leisure to digest it. And number three: the right to carry out actions based on...

I don’t know what’s more tragic, knowing how to read and choosing not to, or not knowing how to read and refusing to learn.

I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.

We’re suggesting that [kids are] missing something if they don’t read but, actually, we’re condemning kids to a lesser life. If you had a sick patient, you would not try to entice them to take...

Lesen, lesen, immer nur lesen und darüber die eigene erbärmliche Existenz vergessen!

[We] all need more than anything else to know human nature, to know the needs of the human soul; and they will find this nature and these needs set forth as nowhere else by the...

For the first 30years of life, you keep learning. The rest of your life you keep unlearning what you had learnt

Reading the Bible will help you get to know the word, but it’s when you put it down and live your life that you get to know the author.

The book: an umbrella against ignorance

You need others to define who you are

In order to pronounce a book bad it is not enough to discover that it elicits no good response from ourselves, for that might be our fault.

Any academic skill is quickly achievable if charged with clear purpose and an appeal to enthusiastic self-interest. Tarzan of the Apes only needed about twenty minutes to figure out how to read the beautiful Jane...

At night I would return home, set out a lamp before me, and devote myself to reading and writing. Whenever sleep overcame me or I became conscious of weakening, I would turn aside to drink...

You can be too rich and too thin, but you can never be too well read or too curious about the world.

My books hold between their covers every story I’ve ever known and still remember, or have now forgotten, or may one day read; they fill the space around me with ancient and new voices.

[I]t is not hasty reading–but serious meditating upon holy and heavenly truths, that make them prove sweet and profitable to the soul. It is not the bee’s touching of the flower, which gathers honey–but her...

I read and reread and recommended and rarely rejected, became one of those readers who will read trashy stories as long as they’re not too terrible–well, even perhaps the truly terrible ones–and will reread something...

The act of true reading is in its very essence democratic. Consider the nature of what happens when we read a book – and I mean, of course, a work of literature, not an instruction...

I think the closest thing to a time machine that I’ve ever found is the Children’s section of a library.

Fiction is like a spider’s web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners.

Do not, under any circumstances, belittle a work of fiction by trying to turn it into a carbon copy of real life; what we search for in fiction is not so much reality but the...

We read to know we’re not alone.

Reading, therefore, is a co-production between writer and reader. The simplicity of this tool is astounding. So little, yet out of it whole worlds, eras, characters, continents, people never encountered before, people you wouldn’t care...