As a reader you recognise that feeling when you’re lost in a book? You know the one – when whatever’s going on around you seems less real than what you’re reading and all you want...

Read. As much as you can. As deeply and widely and nourishingly and ­irritatingly as you can. And the good things will make you remember them, so you won’t need to take notes.

The walls were lined with books, many of them in foreign languages, like insulation against the immediate present.

The best book is not one that informs merely, but one that stirs the reader up to inform himself.

We read books. They make us think. It matters very little whether we agree with the books or not.

Please please read. Everything and anything. You may not remember all of it, you may not remember any of it But from the fairytailes…to the sweeping soaring classics I hope you will one day discover...

he’ll expect to find us exactly where he left us, never mind how much his life has changed in the meantime.

The forbidden things were a great influence on my life. I was forbidden from reading A Catcher in the Rye.

His habit of reading isolated him: it became such a need that after being in company for some time he grew tired and restless; he was vain of the wider knowledge he had acquired from...

When I’m depressed, I read Caeiro — he’s my fresh air. I become very calm, content, faithful — yes, I find faith in God, and in the soul’s transcendent living smallness, after reading the poems...

I would probably have to say that reading fiction — those stories fill the space that other people might use religious stories for. The bulk of what I know about human life I’ve gotten from...

That’s the thing about fiction, that you live in it totally for a little while, but you must forget it, sometimes totally forget it, in order to go about the rest of your day.

Getting all emotionally wrapped up in made-up people’s lives gives me a chance to take a break from my own life […].

Master those books you have. Read them thoroughly. Bathe in them until they saturate you. Read and reread them…digest them. Let them go into your very self. Peruse a good book several times and make...

There is nothing more luxurious than eating while you read—unless it be reading while you eat. Amabel did both: they are not the same thing, as you will see if you think the matter over.

When you find that one book, that one that makes you tingle. It’s almost like you found a little piece of magic.

When you sell a man a book you don’t sell him just twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue – you sell him a whole new life. Love and friendship and humour and ships...

Xas sighed. “But I don’t want to talk about God. Why do I? Sometimes I feel God is all over me like a pollen and I go about pollinating things with God.”Sobran opened his eyes...

It was exactly the sort of thing I needed to be reading that afternoon: a story where, no matter how bad things got, you knew everything was going to turn out fine in the end.

I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book

Besides it’s not as though the prisoner can truly die, any more than a character in a novel can. You can always flip back to the first page, can’t you?

Reading is the spark to imagination. Ignite yours and live forever free.

As children we read to escape—to enter fantasy worlds where a bespectacled boy can discover he’s a wizard or a brave girl can find a magical passage through a wardrobe. But we also read to...

Intellectual death is endemic in areas where people are unprepared to obtain new information for development. Learning is a way of staying alive.

I had done a lot of reading, relative for a kid, about World War Two, and I thought about Chamberlain a lot.

Your status has changed. Your Name is changed! You are a new creation.

Maturity of a woman is not in her age or size for age is just a number and size is figure.

My stomach is rather content, now that I think about it. ‘Tis my mind that is starving.

Your words seduced me,captured and imprisoned me in a world of wonders. Enthralled, I lie at your feet,slayed and yearning for more of your magic.

My advice is to write during commercial breaks, and read while your favorite TV show is on mute.

Who wants a library full of books you’ve already read?

I think imagination is one of the greatest blessings of life, and while one can lose oneself in a book one can never be thoroughly unhappy.

He says he knows someone isn’t from the same race as he when that person looks at his library and asks, ‘Have you read all of these?’ A true book lover knows that, no, he...

If I were a box of cereal, I wouldn’t want to talk about myself any more than I do now. Just flip me over and read all about me if you’re curious. Everything you need...

I can read in bed all night long. I can watch movies all night long. And I can have sex for literally minutes.

She sighed and looked at him sympathetically. ‘Cool flame tricks aside, there’s no competition.’He lifted his eyebrow. ‘Library wins?”Every single time.

Beware of books. They are more than innocent assemblages of paper and ink and string and glue. If they are any good, they have the spirit of the author within. Authors are rogues and ruffians...

…being daunted by her father in every intellectual attempt, she read every book that came in her way, almost with as much delight as if it had been forbidden.

My eyes hunger to read more books then time allows me to devour.

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.