Why do I read?I just can’t help myself.I read to learn and to grow, to laugh and to be motivated.I read to understand things I’ve never been exposed to.I read when I’m crabby, when I’ve...

Reading is solitude.

Perhaps these pages are more particularly addressed to poor students. As for the rest of my readers, they will accept such portions as apply to them. I trust that none will stretch the seams in...

Meredith immersed herself in the novels. For some reason, fiction hit on the meaning of life so much more concisely than real life itself did.

Reading is entering into the consciousness of another human being.

Sometimes you just need a book near you and you can’t explain why.

When you buy a jacket, it’s important the pockets are big enough for a paperback!

All morning I struggled with the sensation of stray wisps of one world seeping through the cracks of another. Do you know the feeling when you start reading a new book before the membrane of...

Please bury me in the library With a dozen long-stemmed proses

Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers.

Her grandfather’s books […] opened before Ada, a world whose colours were so dazzling that reality paled in comparison and faded away. Boris Godunov, Satan, Athalia, King Lear: they all spoke words charged with meaning;...

For twenty years I strove to free myself from what I retained of my education; I indulged my curiosity by reading books less to learn than to efface from my memory the ideas that had...

Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.

History is not the story of heroes entirely. It is often the story of cruelty and injustice and shortsightedness. There are monsters, there is evil, there is betrayal. That’s why people should read Shakespeare and...

But the not-very-highbrow truth of the matter was that the reading was how I got my ya-yas out.For the sake of my bookish reputation I upgraded to Tolstoy and Steinbeck before I understood them, but...

Reading is a collaboration between the writer and reader. Both parties must keep that in mind when dealing with a work of fiction.”{Guy Gavriel Kay}

We only pass this way once..unless our significant other is reading the map..

For some, perhaps for many, books are spare time. For me, the rest of life is spare time: I wake and sleep language. It has always been so.

Responding to a moderator at the Sydney Writers Festival in 2008 (video), about the Spanish words in his book:When all of us are communicating and talking when we’re out in the world, we’ll be lucky...

Want to inspire your kids to read more? Try giving them kids some money to spend just on a book. Take them to a bookstore and let them browse and pick out one book that...

Books can’t hurt you, if you don’t read them.

I’m so glad I have my own copy. I can read them again and again. I can read them again and again on trains, all my life, and every time I do I’ll remember today...

There are two kinds of books in the world–the boring kind they make you read in school and the interesting kind that they won’t let you read in school because then they would have to...

Do you like reading? It’s the best thing that can happen to you in life. Writing has other implications.

Thank you for sending me a copy of your book – I’ll waste no time reading it.

Reading good books ruins you for enjoying bad books.

Childhood reading is so important.

I just loved making words into stories by the sound of my voice.

Every writer I know, when asked how to become a writer, responds with one word:Read.

Just because it’s fiction doesn’t mean it’s any less true.

Read to live another life, even if only for a chapter.

P nă și lectura are o funcție mitologică, nu numai pentru că înlocuiește rostirea miturilor în societățile arhaice și literatura orală, care se mai păstrează în comunitățile rurale din Europa, ci mai ales pentru că...

I’m a bit more of a suspense reader on the adult side, but my favorites were the ones I grew up reading.

What is the use of a book without pictures or conversations?-Alice in Wonderland

Reading is like travel, allowing you to exit your own life for a bit, and to come back with a renewed, even inspired, perspective.

Almost every time I speak to teenagers, particularly young female students who want to talk to me about feminism, I find myself staggered by how much they have read, how creatively they think and how...

You never forget the books you loved as a kid. You never forget the poems you memorized, the first book you read until the cover fell off, the book you read hidden from your mother....

I know because I read. Might I suggest you try it?

To engage the written word means to follow a line of thought, which requires considerable powers of classifying, inference-making and reasoning. It means to uncover lies, confusions, and overgeneralizations, to detect abuses of logic and...

The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.

To be better equipped for the tests that the year will bring — read a textbook. To prepare for the tests that life will bring — read a book.

Aren’t we all waiting to be read by someone, praying that they’ll tell us that we make sense?

What one wrote playfully, another reads with tension and passion; what one wrote with tension and passion, another reads playfully.

There are few things better than losing yourself in a book. And if you’re lucky enough to have that adventure continue in a series, it’s like chocolate ganache on the icing on the cake.

Somebody is observing my writings, I know that.That’s one reason why I keep reading and writing.

[I] read books because I love them, not because I think I should read them.

The right books are like crowbars for our imaginations. When we find ourselves stuck at some place in life, the right book can pry open our inner idea banks. You know those moments: life has...

You may have tangible wealth untold. Caskets of jewels and coffers of gold. Richer than I you can never be -I had a mother who read to me

There are a large number of people in the room, but one is unaware of them. They are in the books. At times they move among the pages, like sleepers turning over between two dreams....

You Are Not Special”, 6-12)