I will only start taking book reviews seriously from the day that books are able to review readers.

When my father first took me to Ennis Library I went down among the shelves and felt company, not only the company of writers, but the readers too, because they had lifted and opened and...

Closed books are like closed eyes—you must open them to see anything.

A good reading strengthens the soul.

Honestly, I hate when in books, the guys changes the girl’s life. Like, no. The girl needs to change her own life.

Everything in contemporary society discourages interiority. More and more of our exchanges take place via circuits, and in their very nature those interactions are such as to keep us hovering in the virtual now, a...

I still love books. Nothing a computer can do can compare to a book. You can’t really put a book on the Internet. Three companies have offered to put books by me on the Net,...

The love between a writer and a reader is never celebrated.

..through the act of reading my words, the patterns that form your thoughts become an imitation of the patterns that once formed mine. And in that way I live again, through you.

Kalo nggak nulis, ya baca. Kalo nggak baca, ya nonton film saja lah.

Anyhow, I had found something out about an unknown privation, and I realized how a general love or craving, before it is explicit or before it sees its object, manifests itself as boredom or some...

If one reads enough books one has a fighting chance. Or better, one’s chances of survival increase with each book one reads.

The coverlet warmed her legs. The firelight wobbled over the pages. Maelyn sank into the world the words wrapped around her, hushing everything that hurt, and seeping tranquility right down to her toes. She was...

The visitor enters and says, “What a lot of books! Have you read them all?” …The best answer is the one always used by Roberto Leydi: “And more, dear sir, many more,” which freezes the...

But the penciled sheets did not seem like nor smell like the library book so she had given it up, consoling herself with the vow that when she grew up, she would work hard, save...

Each ending is the messenger for a new beginning

A new book is still on trial and the amateur is not in a position to judge it. It has to be tested against the great body of Christian thought down the ages and all...

There are books for when you’re bored. Plenty of them. There are books for when you’re calm. The best kind, in my opinion. There are also books for when you’re sad. And there are books...

Desultory readers are seldom remarkable for the exactness of their learning.

The Old Testament is my favourite science fantasy reading.

What a sense of superiority it gives one to escape reading some book which everyone else is reading.

I read, and, in reading, lifted the Curtains of the Impossible that blind the mind, and looked out into the unknown.

We read in bed because reading is halfway between life and dreaming, our own consciousness in someone else’s mind.

It’s not what you will get out of the books that is so enriching — it is what the books will get out of you that will ultimately change your life.

Back to culture. Yes, actually to culture. You can’t consume much if you sit still and read books.

Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others.

He did not wholly understand the intricate play of ideas and the complex phrases, but as he read he sensed a strong, who purpose behind the words and he felt that he almost understood.

What’s your favorite book?’ is a question that is usually only asked by children and banking identity-verification services–and favorite isn’t, anyway, the right word to describe the relationship a reader has with a particularly cherished...

La lectura es un sintoma de los incredulos. Cuando dudas investigas y si investigas descubres lo inimaginable. A mucha gente le la miedo leer porque no esta de moda.

She curled sideways into the milky light of the bedside lamp and began to read.

If you’re a serious minded leader, you will read. You will read all you can. You will read when you feel like it, and you will read when you don’t. You will do whatever you...

There are treasures in books that all the money in the world cannot buy, but the poorest laborer can have for nothing.

You learn a lot by reading and even more by sharing.

Doom is nigh. I am in acute distress, desperately trying to coax sleep, opening my eyes every few seconds to check their faded gleam, and imagining paradise as a place where a sleepless neighbor reads...

Your understanding and interpretation of [a novel] is undoubtedly unique…and that is the real beauty of the relationship that joins readers, books and writers together in a literary trinity—a bookish triumvirate.

[…] there exists around the written world opened by the work a multitude of other possible worlds, which we can complete by means of our images and our words. Denying oneself this work of completion...

Books swept me away, this way and that, one after the other; I made endless vows according to their lights for I believed them.

Reading literature is a way of reaching back to something bigger and older and different. It can give you the feeling that you belong to the past as well as the present, and it can...

Reading Gives Us Some Place To Go, When We Have To Stay Where We Are.

Colleges should offer lots of optional life-enriching experiences, like intramural basketball and a place to sunbathe. But reading books, like basketball or sunbathing, is a leisure activity, neither more nor less admirable than any other,...

Tucking my nose into a book makes me completely oblivious to my surroundings. I would have made a terrible spy in the army–the first person to hand me a novel would have been able to...

I am a man without many pleasures in life, a man whose few pleasures are small, but a man whose small pleasures are very important to him. One of them is eating. One reading. Another...

I asked, how is knowledge found? ‘You must learn how to read, little sister,’ he said.

He was a very private person, and sometimes it seemed to me that he was no longer interested in the world or in other people… I got the feeling that Julián was living in the...

There is much to discover that’s not on the back cover!

Remember that the book which bores you when you are twenty or thirty will open doors for you when you are forty or fifty.

They had only ever discussed books but what, in this life, is more personal than books?

Among the many worlds which man did not receive as a gift of nature, but which he created with his own mind, the world of books is the greatest. Every child, scrawling his first letters...

Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes.

You need to read more science fiction. Nobody who reads science fiction comes out with this crap about the end of history