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...

The more you read,the eager you read many more.

As adults we choose our own reading material. Depending on our moods and needs we might read the newspaper, a blockbuster novel, an academic article, a women’s magazine, a comic, a children’s book, or the...

To receive many blessings, read to your children from the womb to the tomb.

Each of us promenades his thought, like a monkey on a leash. When you read, you always have to such monkeys: your own and one belonging to someone else. Or, even worse, a monkey and...

I only read biographies, metaphysics and psychology. I can dream up my own fiction.

Dinner-parties bore us because our imagination is absent, and reading interests us because it is keeping us company.

Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written; I’d rather boast about the ones I’ve read.

It is not in the gene of an Intellectually blinded person to experience the paradise in the writer’s imagination.

Edmund doesn’t solve any of his grievances or personality disorders by going through the wardrobe. If anything, they’re exacerbated and brought to a crisis by his experiences in Narnia. When you go to Narnia, your...

Being well-read is not sufficient, and it isn’t the highest virtue to which we can strive, but it is both necessary and practical. We are, after all, people of the Great Book; no Christian leader...

Censoring books that deal with difficult, adolescent issues does not protect anybody. Quite the opposite. It leaves kids in the darkness and makes them vulnerable. Censorship is the child of fear and the father of...

“” ― Neil Gaiman

When I see great boxers, it’s like reading a wonderful poem.

In all well-written books, there is much that is good which is not dazzling; and these shallow critics should be taught, that it is for the embellishment of the more tame and uninteresting parts of...

In a country where people are not reading and thinking much, the sun is already set!

It is really hard to be lonely very long in a world of words. Even if you don’t have friends somewhere, you still have language, and it will find you and wrap its little syllables...

There is really only one way to learn good writing: good reading and extensive writing and revising.

Le livre est un morceau de silence dans les mains du lecteur. Celui qui écrit se tait. Celui qui lit ne rompt pas le silence.

It is said that you can’t write without a reader. The opposite holds true as well; you can’t read without a writer. But if as a single, creative person you are one in the same,...

Their words also make it a lot easier for people to justify that shift — to convince themselves that surfing the Web is a suitable, even superior, substitute for deep reading and other forms of...

I love when I finish reading a chapter that I wrote and my cheeks hurt from smiling and all I can utter is, ‘Wow.’

When you have those moments just think of me, call or text me when you feel weak and I will always be there for you. Nothing about this will be easy, life is hard, we...

The odd thing about people who had many books was how they always wanted more.

A book is a loaded gun in the house next door. Burn it. Take the shot from the weapon. Breach man’s mind. Who knows who might be the target of a well-read man?

And so, there in the penitentiary, Juan’s education began. He didn’t want to be a puto weakling, so he worked hard at learning to read. His earthly body was locked up, but his mind was...

Quem não lê, não pensa, e quem não pensa será para sempre um servo.

Write when you can’t stop writing. Read when you stopped writing!

Let All Your Life’s Experiences Lead To More Writing & Encourage More Reading..!

Much is known by reading, more is mastered by doing.

Life is wonderful and strange…and it’s also absolutely mundane and tiresome. It’s hilarious and it’s deadening. It’s a big, screwed-up morass of beauty and change and fear and all our lives we oscillate between awe...

Ivanov had been a party member since 1902. Back then he had tried to write stories in the manner of Tolstoy, Chekhov, Gorky, or rather he had tried to plagiarize them without much success, which...

Books are like friends to me. Words come alive on the page.

You can see the size of people’s dreams from their profit and loss calculations

Reading fiction is important. It is a vital means of imagining a life other than our own, which in turn makes us more empathetic beings. Following complex story lines stretches our brains beyond the 140...

The trick is to teach yourself to read in small sips as well as long swallows.

Reading words puts them in your mind. You never forget. Even when you don’t get a chance to dwell on the music, you can hear it in your head.

If you drop your Kindle in the toilet, you’re done.

I have no feelings of guilt regarding the books I have not read and perhaps will never read; I know that my books have unlimited patience. They will wait for me till the end of...

If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated readings deserves to be read at all.

We were very poor. But between the covers of books I could go anywhere, I could be anybody, I could do anything. I began to read about people of great accomplishment. As I read those...