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...

‎If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot…reading is the creative center of a writer’s life…you cannot hope to sweep someone...

He started to look at me in a manner I recognized: it was the way I looked at a new book, one I had never read before, one that surprised me with all it had...

If you can’t fuck me while I read, fuck off.

Hinter dem westlichen Konzept einer Idealstadt verbirgt sich die Idee der Privilegierung. Moreau hätte ihm ohne Zweifel zugestimmt.

Some people buy books not to read but to dream, the moment 2-3 sentences read and lost in imagination. Take a paper and begin writing…..

When I say to a parent, ‘read to a child,’ I don’t want it to sound like medicine. I want it to sound like chocolate.

I will write one book that will change entire humankind if only you have enough guts to read my previous ones.

I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.

Every fairy tale offers the potential to surpass present limits, so in a sense the fairy tale offers you freedoms that reality denies. In all great works of fiction, regardless of the grim reality they...

We read to know we are not alone.

This earth that we live on is full of stories in the same way that, for a fish, the ocean is full of ocean. Some people say when we are born we’re born into stories....

To me, reading through old letters and journals is like treasure hunting. Somewhere in those faded, handwritten lines there is a story that has been packed away in a dusty old box for years.

Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.

I had plenty of pimples as a kid. One day I fell asleep in the library. When I woke up, a blind man was reading my face.

The things you read will fashion you by slowly conditioning your mind.

A book series is never truly over. The story lives on, even when the final page has been turned.

But what I hope for in a book – either one that I write or one that I read – is transparency. I want the story to shine through. I don’t want to think of...

Flow is something the reader experiences, not the writer.

Novels and gardens,” she says. “I like to move from plot to plot.

Insensibly he formed the most delightful habit in the world, the habit of reading: he did not know that thus he was providing himself with a refuge from all the distress of life; he did...

Through books I discovered everything to be loved, explored, visited, communed with. I was enriched and given all the blueprints to a marvelous life, I was consoled in adversity, I was prepared for both joys...

Bill Gates (and his successor at Microsoft, Ray Ozzie) are famous for taking annual reading vacations. During the year they deliberately cultivate a stack of reading material—much of it unrelated to their day-to-day focus at...

Reading a book is a silent conversation between two friends.

It is well known that reading quickens the growth of a heart like nothing else.

Un libro leído a medias es una aventura amorosa incompleta.

the day women are allowed to learn to read and write the world will become ungovernable.

And every writer cherishes the dream of setting the young on fire, even if only by a cigarette butt tossed casually over the shoulder, and when we meet young people who say that they were...

yet you cannot help but love them.

Why is any one book different from any other book? They are different, A.J. decides, because they are. We have to look inside many. We have to believe. We agree to be disappointed sometimes so...

He read it over twenty times and though the darkness that sang on held steady about him, the unhurried words fell bright through his mind, going down golden through deep water, and when one passed...

Mr Earbrass was virtually asleep when several lines of verse passed through his mind and left it hopelessly awake. Here was the perfect epigraph for TUH:A horrid ?monster has been [something] delay’dBy your/their indiff’rence in...

I wanted to read immediately. The only fear was that of books coming to an end.

It was spring when it happened and the schoolroom windows were open all day long, and every afternoon after Billy left we had milk from little waxy cartons and Mrs. Jansma would read us chapters...

I think, because I’ve been working for a while, I’ve been working since I was ten, I had the fortune of reading a lot, a lot of scripts.

It’s not what you lift, it’s where you carry it.

Reading is not as insignificant as we claim. First we must steal the key to the library. Reading is a provocation, a rebellion: we open the book’s door, pretending it is a simple paperback cover,...

Don’t let any situation intimidate you anymore, don’t accept defeat anymore.

I turned down the first script offered to me, and the second. I lay on my back one day under an umbrella, in the garden, reading the third, and wondered why I had turned down...

Before you sleep, read something that is exquisite, and worth remembering.

The church trembled and the hail hammered the roof, but his words glided in the air, joyful and bright like the birds at the cliffs. They floated freely around one another without colliding and the...

So you went from one reader to two readers?” you’d be absolutely correct. And after I had congratulated you on your keen guess, I’d thank you for being 50% of my reading base.

Look at your daughter,’ she whispered. ‘As brave as…as..” She wanted to compare Meggie to a hero in some story but all the heroes she could think of were men, and anyway none of them...

The best books… are those that tell you what you know already.

What’s the point of a houseful of books you’ve already read?