The average buyer in bookshop spends 8 seconds on the front cover and 15 seconds on the back cover before deciding whether to purchase the book or not. On average, he does not get past...

She is a great gobbler of books, but reads only trash, memorizing nothing and leaving out the longer descriptions.

What is more important to a library than anything else — than everything else — is the fact that it exists.”[The Premise Of Meaning, American Scholar; Washington, DC, June 5, 1972]

To speak without shame about books we haven’t read, we would thus do well to free ourselves of the oppressive image of cultural literacy without gaps, as transmitted and imposed by family and school, for...

She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.

When it comes to literature, we are all groping in the dark, even the writer. Especially the writer. And that is a good thing–maybe one of the best things about literature. It’s always an adventure...

I do not want to just read books; I want to crawl inside them and live there.

Words have the greatest power to inflict everlasting pain. Words have the greatest power to heal the soul.

The most comfortable place for a tired mind is in the lap of a book.

Holiness may be found by being in the mere presence of books, without evening parting the pages.

The man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and elevated opinions.

MarginaliaSometimes the notes are ferocious,skirmishes against the authorraging along the borders of every pagein tiny black script.If I could just get my hands on you,Kierkegaard, or Conor Cruise O’Brien,they seem to say,I would bolt the...

There is more reason to say grace before beginning a book than there is to say it before beginning to dine.

Public swimming pools, recreation centers, summer reading programs, youth jobs programs – they are all shutting their doors. And they are all facilities and programs relied on most heavily by low-income children.

There is much you can learn from books and scrolls. These books are my friends, my companions. They make me laugh and cry and find meaning in life.

In reading he found solitude. In reading he could dispel the blare of the world.

Because we were stranded together and because I stuttered, we read. there is no refuge so private, no asylum more sane. There is no facility of voices captured elsewhere so entire and so marvellous. My...

I am not my sister. Words from the books curl around each othermake little senseuntilI read them againand again, the storysettling into memory. Too slow my teacher says.Read Faster. Too babyish, the teacher says.Read older.But...

For centuries, no one was concerned that books weren’t girl-friendly, because no one really cared if girls read; but even so, we persisted for long enough that literature has slowly come to accommodate us. Modern...

The only thing which can tell us about the novel is the novel.

I think reading is important in any form. I think a person who’s trying to learn to like reading should start off reading about a topic they are interested in, or a person they are...

Only the living can read. This means that when I write, my target market is people of the future. Greetings, people of the moon!

Don’t say negative things about your spouse and children.

A responsible woman sees and accepts only the best in a given situation.

Reading brings us unknown friends

What’s said in silence is best viewed in darkness. I learned that while reading a bowl of Alphabet Soup.

El problema es que el niño es una esponja que registra y absorbe indiscriminadamente todo lo que ve […] El niño formado en la imagen se reduce a ser un hombre que no lee, y,...

Perhaps she was more like him than he’d thought: her home, too, had consisted of paper and printer’s ink. She probably felt as lost as he did in the real world.

A classic is the term given to any book which comes to represent the whole universe, a book on a par with ancient talismans.

We read frequently if unknowingly, in quest of a mind more original than our own.

I’ll bet opening a store called Boobs and Books would increase literacy. I prefer a hands-on approach to learning.

To be the best, you have to be willing to do what nobody does. And today, if nobody reads and nobody works hard, then you also have to give up reading and become lethargic to...

A precious, mouldering pleasure ’t is To meet an antique book, In just the dress his century wore; A privilege, I think.

Her reputation for reading a great deal hung about her like the cloudy envelope of a goddess in an epic.

I believe that today more than ever a book should be sought after even if it has only one great page in it. We must search for fragments, splinters, toenails, anything that has ore in...

In my living room there are two large bookcases, each one eight feet tall, and they have about five hundred books between them. If I step up to a shelf and look at the books...

The promised notification was hanging over her head. The postman’s knock within the neighbourhood was beginning to bring its daily terrors -and if reading could banish the idea for even half an hour, it was...

The Babar the Elephant book is sitting in front of me. I pick it up and start reading it. I remember reading it as a small Boy and enjoying it and imagining that I was...

I’m ready for another adventure now, take me far away please!Ok one more… But then you have to read to me!

No, read in order to live.

Oh God no. I’ve maybe read a third of ‘em. But I’m going to read them all. I call it my Life’s Library. Every summer since I was little, I’ve gone to garage sales and...

I can’t actually think of a job where I was relaxed the whole time. I don’t think I would want to do that job. When I break into a cold sweat when I’m reading, I...

If you surround yourself with the good and righteous, they can only raise you up. If you surround yourself with the others, they will drag you down into the doldrums of mediocrity, and they will...

I wasn’t reading poetry because my aim was to work my way through English Literature in Prose A–Z.But this was different.I read [in, Murder in the Cathedral by T.S. Eliot]: This is one moment, /...

Moreover, people have become accustomed to reading to escape as opposed to reading to think.

Live to read, read to learn.

Just knowing that they could read made the Baudelaire orphans feel as if their wretched lives could be a little brighter.

The nicest notes I’ve received from readers are those that tell me I’ve gotten them back into reading for entertainment. For me, there is no greater compliment.

Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind.

No time spent with a book is ever entirely wasted, even if the experience is not a happy one: there’s always something to be learned. It’s just that, every now and again, you hit a...