There was one sure way to avoid being assigned an impromptu chore in our house – be it taking out the trash or cleaning your room – and that was to have your face buried...

All libraries must submit to a certain order, I answered. Indeed, agreed the professor, or all will be lost. The fall of nations and empires begins with the fall of libraries.

The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it.

Having come to the conclusion that there was so much to do that she didn’t know where to start, Mrs Fowler decided not to start at all. She went to the library, took Diary of...

I believe we do well to fall asleep each night with books. We enter the library of our dreams in good company then.

Reading is not optional.

Reading is an intelligent way of not having to think.

Lying eats into the soul. If it becomes a habit it frays the edge of your spirit. Truth telling, although sometimes harder to do, strengthens your heart. It serves a person ill not to tell...

The rage for swiftness which is so characteristic of this restless time has been extended to fashions of reading. One effect of the modern habit of swift and careless reading is seen in the impatience...

He that loves reading has everything within his reach.

Reading not only soothes your soul but takes you through a garden of imagination

You can look at someone’s ego and see the depth of their weaknesses

All I have learned, I learned from books.

Reading at meals is considered rude in polite society, but if you expect to succeed as a writer, rudeness should be the second-to-least of your concerns. The least of all should be polite society and...

So much of one’s life was spent reading; it made sense not to do it alone.

It’s more important to be read than paid.

All these are readers, and their gestures, their craft, the pleasure, the responsibility and the power they derive from reading, are common with mine. I am not alone.

I often feel sorry for people who don’t read good books; they are missing a chance to lead an extra life.

… that when you’re buying books, you’re optimistically thinking you’re buying the time to read them.(Paraphrase of Schopenhauer)

I wish I could read my books over for the first time to see what you guys see.

Who was it who said, “I hold the buying of more books than one can peradventure read, as nothing less than the soul’s reaching towards infinity; which is the only thing that raises us above...

I was always going to the bookcase for another sip of the divine specific.

As every reader knows in his or her heart, there is much more to truth than mere fact.

That’s my point: if you own thirty or more books, or you are reading any book at this moment, you may protest all you want, but you were born on the wrong continent.

Eräs tuttu mies kysyi joskus, luinko sen lopulta loppuun asti. Hän arveli, ettei itse voisi lukea, koska “kokemus olisi niin masentava”. Niin, luin kirjan ja menetin viikon yöunet. Mutta olen silti yhä tässä, voin hyvin....

The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader. I know people who read without hearing the sentence sounds and they were the fastest readers. Eye readers we call them. They get...

[B]riefing is not reading. In fact it is the antithesis of reading. Briefing is terse, factual and to the point. Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting. Briefing closes down a subject, reading opens it...

Learning became her. She loved the smell of the book from the shelves, the type on the pages, the sense that the world was an infinite but knowable place. Every fact she learned seemed to...

Reading teaches us the nuances of humanity. To find the beauty of what is moral and ethical in your own actions and discover the strange subtlety of what it is to question why you should...

Reading may be the last secretive behavior that is neither pathological or prosecutable. It is certainly the last refuge from the real-time epidemic. For the stream of a narrative overflows the banks of the real....

The book that simply demands to be read, for no good reason, is asking us to change our lives by putting aside what we usually think of as good reasons. It’s asking us to stop...

He had some taste for romance reading before he went to the university, where, we must confess, in justice to his college, he was cured of the love of reading in all its shapes; and...

You should write because you love the shape of stories and sentences and the creation of different words on a page. Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write.

I know that I am a small, weak man, but I have amassed a large library; I dream of dangerous places.

I love to read. My favorite thing.

Apa gunanya banyak baca bukuKalau mulut kau bungkam melulu

In reading you must pursue to become a creator.

I am a practical girl, and a life is only so long. It should be spent in as much peace and good eating and good reading as possible and no undue excitement. That is all...

Alcohol makes other people less tedious, and food less bland, and can help provide what the Greeks called entheos, or the slight buzz of inspiration when reading or writing. The only worthwhile miracle in the...

Usually, I set one foot in a library and I feel my own internal volume lower. A library is a physical equivalent of a sigh. It’s the silence, sure, but it’s also the certainty of...

Go ahead, and fear not. You will have a full library at your service.

When you sell a man a book you don’t sell him just 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue – you sell him a whole new life.

Lügen schmerzen, die Wahrheit jedoch bewegt uns.

Reading always calmed me down: filling my head with other – made up – people’s problems and conflicts made my own seem less terrible, less real.

Madam Pince, our librarian, tells me that it is ‘pawed about, dribbled on, and generally maltreated’ nearly everyday – a high compliment for any book.

Have you never picked up a book you’ve read before, and found it speaks to you in a new way?

Without unscrambled eggs, there was no time travel, no more depredation of the Now, and we could look to a brighter future of long-term thought–and more reading.

In a bookstore you can find me in the romance section, because I’m not a lover, I’m a reader.

There is no better adviser than a good book.

Your mouth is not given to you for feeding alone; it is given to you to programme events and circumstance around you.