Reading can only take you so far, up to the moment where you must take action with your own hands

The more you read, the more you calm down.

A closed book will lie there like a dead horse. But an open book will kick, buck, and bolt through perceived adventures like a wild and free stallion. So hold on.

To quote French author Francois Mauriac, ‘Tell me what you read and I’ll tell you who your are’ is true enough, but I’d know you better if you told me what you reread.

Home is where your books are.

A mi la literatura m’ha canviat, m’ha donat una profunditat de consciència que no tenia. M’ha ajudat a veure el món d’un altra manera, m’ha fet més gran el cor. I aquesta passió la sento...

Sometimes you wish to escape to another part of the book.You stop reading and riffle the pages, catching sight of the story as it races ahead, not above the world but through it, through forests...

an incredibly beautiful read

Reading non-fiction without writing notes is like chewing without swallowing. You will get the taste of it but digest nothing

If you don’t write, then read.

It does not take long. Soon the fine galloping language, the gutless swooning full of sapless trees and dehydrated lusts begins to swim smooth and swift and peaceful. It is better than praying without having...

Reading is too intimate,’ Spofforth said. ‘It will put you too close to the feelings and ideas of others. It will disturb and confuse you.

I never grew up reading or fantasizing about fairy tales. I was always too busy, like, outside being a kid.

Books are finite, sexual encounters are finite, but the desire to read and to fuck is infinite; it surpasses our own deaths, our fears, our hopes for peace.

From that time on, the world was hers for the reading. She would never be lonely again, never miss the lack of intimate friends. Books became her friends and there was one for every mood....

When was the last time you read a book? The truth now. And picture books don’t count-I mean something with print in it.

He read a lot, but what he read, and not just that but everything he saw, films and paintings, he translated into feeling. And this feeling, which could not immediately be expressed in words, not...

Not getting what we want can be getting what we need

I’m good at reading people.

A prose that is altogether alive demands something of the reader that the ordinary novel reader is not prepared to give.

But a reader’s ambition knows no bounds.

There is no ME without books; they’re everything I remember from childhood, from maturity … All that’s happened to me has been coloured, permanently, by my reading.

Yet there was always in me, even when I was very small, the sense that I ought to be somewhere else. And wander I did, although, in my everyday life, I had nowhere to go...

The best way to get kids to read a book is to say: ‘This book is not appropriate for your age, and it has all sorts of horrible things in it like sex and death...

To hold a book between your hands, to form the intimate circle, a world apart from the world, an otherness that is uniquely your own. Always accompanied by a sound to no one other than...

I am reading six books at once, the only way of reading; since, as you will agree, one book is only a single unaccompanied note, and to get the full sound, one needs ten others...

When the founding fathers conceived of this new nation, they understood that the education of its citizens would be essential to the health of their democratic enterprise. Knowledge was not just a luxury; it was...

Reading is the Feeding that your mind has been Needing,

My advice to the reader approaching a poem is to make the mind still and blank. Let the poem speak. This charged quiet mimics the blank space ringing the printed poem, the nothing out of...

I love stories that suck you in, that you can’t stop reading because you are quite simply there.

We live and breathe words.

Reading a book is like going on a great journey. You don’t know what’ll happen, but something is bound to change. And for me, that change has always been good.

Are you missing the library again?” Seth asked, startling her as he walked into the room.Kendra turned to face her brother. “You caught me,” she congratulated him. “I’m reading.””I bet the librarians back home are...

This was the curse of the voracious reader, she realized. Real life never quite measured up to the heightened and precise contours of her literary worlds. A real war was never as true as a...

I spent the rest of the day in someone else’s story. The rare moments that I put the book down, my own pain returned in burning stabs.

Despite the enormous quantity of books, how few people read! And if one reads profitably, one would realize how much stupid stuff the vulgar herd is content to swallow every day.

The minutes ticked past. This is why peelers need a book. A wee paperback to stick in your pocket.

I don’t see the use of reading the same thing over and over again,’ said Phillip. ‘That’s only a laborious form of idleness.’But are you under the impression that you have so great a mind...

That, incidentally, gives me the greatest possible pleasure—the knowledge that we are all linked by our friendship with a group of fictional people. What a pleasant club of which to be a member! [from the...

Read different to think differently; world is already into rat race.

Each spine was an encapsulated memory, each book represented hours, days of pleasure, of immersion into words.

We may be sure that the characteristic blindness of the twentieth century – the blindness about which posterity will ask, “But how could they have thought that?” – lies where we have never suspected it…...

Books were seen as a waste of time. What was the point, unless you were reading for information? To lose oneself in a book was to be slightly wacky, a little greedy and ultimately slothful....

A book reads the better which is our own, and has been so long known to us, that we know the topography of its blots, and dog’s ears, and can trace the dirt in it...

How are you supposed to know what to read next? This is the question that keeps us up at night, so at Day One our mission is to feed an audience of literature-hungry, time-constrained readers...

I’m afraid I’ve degenerated into a bibliophile.

I swooned again – I had that moment of falling in love with reading again.

I don’t have a lot of time. I can give a poem a couple of lines, a short story a paragraph, and a novel a few pages, then if I can stop reading without a...

I am not gifted. When I read, the words twisttwirl across the page.When they settle, it is too late.The class has already moved on.I want to catch words one day. I want to hold themthen...

The serious reader in the age of technology is a rebel by definition: a protester without a placard, a Luddite without hammer or bludgeon. She reads on planes to picket the antiseptic nature of modern...