How do text messages make you feel existential?I start thinking about exactly that: how people can edit a thought before sending it out to the world. They can make themselves seem more well spoken than...

do not exist,” or in any case do not exist in the same way as do the inhabitants of the real world. But things manifest in an entirely different way on the unconscious level, which...

Love so sprang at her, she honestly thought no one had ever looked into it. Where was it in literature? Someone would have written something. She must not have recognized it. Time to read everything...

The slight, the facile and the merely self-glorifying tend to drop away over the centuries, and what we are left with is the bedrock: Homer and Milton, the Greek tragedian and Shakespeare, Chaucer and Cervantes...

Sometimes I forget myself in a book. And when i have to stop reading it takes me a minute to remember where I am. Or who I am.

There comes a time in every man’s life when his thoughts lightly turn to setting his library on fire. To burn away the jungle to let him find the books that most matter to him.

I couldn’t convince her that if I had a book with me, I wasn’t lonely.

For my whole life, my favorite activity was reading. It’s not the most social pastime.

Books don’t offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw.

Reading to small children is a specialty.

Is there a better method of departure by night than this quiet bon voyage with an open book, the sole companion who has come to see you off, to wave you into the dark waters...

As ever, books remained a medium through which Theodore and Edith connected and interpreted larger world.

The book and I secret ourselvesBehind the paneled door.We merge our thoughts in retrospectOf ancient mystic lore.We spend a pleasant quiet hour,Nor know it passed us by…The easy chair, the shaded lamp,A well-loved book and...

On some level, I think we want our reading self to represent our best self.

Eva walked along the wall that held all of Michael’s books. Shelves of science texts – physics, astronomy, a full set of Darwin’s writings, new works in biomedical genetics – these were at the bottom,...

I couldn’t live a week without a private library – indeed, I’d part with all my furniture and squat and sleep on the floor before I’d let go of the 1500 or so books I...

Reading that pleases and profits, that together delights and instructs, has all that one should desire.

the Real-World was a sprawling mess of a book in need of a good editor.

He had no ideal world of dead heroes; he knew little of the life of men in the past; he must find the beings to whom he could cling with loving admiration among those who...

With so much reading ahead of you, the temptation might be to speed up. But in fact it’s essential to slow down and read every word. Because one important thing that can be learned by...

Things started to get out of control when I began reading that I was a superstar.

Dominate in your domain; You can do it.

A responsible woman is one who sees opportunities of service and responds to them quickly. In her dwells the ability to see and respond to opportunities.

Woe be to him that reads but one book.

We were never organized readers who would see a book through to its end in any sory of logical order. We weave in and out of words like tourists on a hop-on, hop-off bus tour....

The importance of reading, for me, is that it allows you to dream.Reading not only educates, but is relaxing and allows you to feed your imagination – creating beautiful pictures from carefully chosen words.

In the shop window you have promptly identified the cover with the title you were looking for. Following this visual trail, you have forced your way through the shop past the thick barricade of Books...

There are books, that one has for twenty years without reading them, that one always keeps at hand, that one takes along from city to city, from country to country, carefully packed, even when there...

The creator of Sir John Falstaff, of Hamlet, and of Rosalind also makes me wish I could be more myself. But that, as I argue throughout this book, is why we should read, and why...

This book does not exist. And even if it did, it wouldn’t be worth buying or reading.

Pornography was not meant to be looked at. Pornography was meant to be read—on Braille-embossed condoms.

A precious, mouldering pleasure ‘t isTo meet an antique bookIn just the dress his century wore;A privilege, I think,His venerable hand to take,And warming in our own,A passage back, or two, to makeTo times when...

Just as hunters will mount the heads of the kills, white people need to let people know that they have made their way to hundreds or even thousands of books. After all, what’s the point...

People wonder why the novel is the most popular form of literature; people wonder why it is read more than books of science or books of metaphysics. The reason is very simple; it is merely...

The great opposition to reading is what I allow to fill my time instead of reading. To say we have no time to read is not really true; we simply have chosen to use our...

The notions of a young man of one or two and twenty,’ said he, ‘as to what is necessary in manners to make him quite the thing, are more absurd, I believe, than those of...

Books are love letters (or apologies) passed between us, adding a layer of conversation beyond our spoken words.

I love vast libraries; yet there is a doubt,If one be better with them or without,Unless he use them wisely, and, indeed,Knows the high art of what and how to read.

For six months, then, Emma, at fifteen years of age, made her hands dirty with books from old lending libraries.

Peeing is like a good book in that it is very, very hard to stop once you start.

Ultimately what I like about reading together is that we all make it happen together. Of course even amid shared experience we’re still alone… each reading of each book is unique. But what a comfort...

I think I learned a lot from reading in general – even from reading badly written books.

Learning to Read”: I told the Englishman that my alma mater was books.

I don’t read such boring things. Life is too short.

The world of books captured my heart.

A letter may be coded, and a word may be coded. A theatrical performance may be coded, and a sonnet may be coded, and there are times when it seems the entire world is in...

No skill is more crucial to the future of a child than literacy.

Es, pues, de saber que este sobredicho hidalgo, los ratos que estaba ocioso, que eran los más del año, se daba a leer.

We are never allowed to forget that some books are badly written; we should remember that sometimes they’re badly read, too.

Reading is like skiing. When done well, when done by an expert, both reading and skiing are graceful, harmonious, activities. When done by a beginner, both are awkward, frustrating, and slow. Learning to ski is...