… 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...

A wise reader reads the book of genius not with his heart, not so much with his brain, but with his spine. It is there that occurs the telltale tingle…

Elend, my dearest Elend who brings a pile of books to each ball he attends and ignores everybody in favour of having a nice read. Elend who has to grow up rather suddenly in the...

Victor, if you read this stuff, you can save people in the past from drowning. It’s like time is a river, and it’s nighttime, and you can hear people calling, Help, we’re disappearing! So you...

Books were once cherished belongings of people, that they weren’t always just neglected and collecting dust.

A good story defies the reader’s expectations, and in doing so, brings them satisfaction.

You must write, and read, as if your life depended on it.

When you are old and gray and full of sleep And nodding by the fire, take down this book, And slowly read, and dream of the soft look Your eyes had once, and of their...

When a poet settled down to write a poem, could he foresee the lines he would write? Did his head constantly spin with riddles and rhymes and was his only job to put them down?...

Never force yourself to read a book that you do not enjoy. There are so many good books in the world that it is foolish to waste time on one that does not give you...

Once I was asked be a seatmate on a trans-Pacific flight….what instruction he should give his fifteen-year-old daughters, who wanted to be a writer. [I said], “Tell your daughter three things.” Tell her to read…Tell...

A few months ago, I was sitting morosely at my desk, wondering why I had ever agreed to review Barbara Bush: A Memoir for an English newspaper. The experience was proving to be a degradation...

Free time is a terrible thing to waste. Read a book.

Books are just old friends waiting to be discovered.

They’ll get my Kindle when they pry it from my cold dead hands, if my corpse will release it.

I like best to have one book in my hand, and a stack of others on the floor beside me, so as to know the supply of poppy and mandragora will not run out before...

He believes that if talent is demanded of a literary publisher or a writer, it must also be demanded of a reader. Because we mustn’t deceive ourselves: on the journey of reading we often travel...

The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.

You see, one of the best things about reading is that you’ll always have something to think about when you’re not reading.

When I read a book, I put in all the imagination I can, so that it is almost like writing the book as well as reading it – or rather, it is like living it....

Never put off till tomorrow the book you can read today.

You can’t just skip the boring parts.””Of course I can skip the boring parts.””How do you know they’re boring if you don’t read them?””I can tell.””Then you can’t say you’ve read the whole play.””I think...

A confident woman wears a smile and has this air of comfortability and pleasantness about her.

God wants all man’s attention, thoughts and focus to be on Him.

Frederick Douglass taught that literacy is the path from slavery to freedom. There are many kinds of slavery and many kinds of freedom, but reading is still the path.

Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice.

Education…has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.

I owe everything I am and everything I will ever be to books.

Signs form a language, but not the one you think you know.

The works of the great poets have never yet been read by mankind, for only great poets can read them. Most men have learned to read to serve a paltry convenience, as they have learned...

Even in the most stressed times there is always time for reading.

Before bed I do a bit of light reading. I’m reading a 50-pound book on midgets.

Too many thousands of opened books yawned between them and him. He had exiled himself.

L’homme construit des maisons parce qu’il est vivant, mais il écrit des livres parce qu’il se sait mortel. Il habite en bande parce qu’il est grégaire, mais il lit parce qu’il se sait seul.

There are too many books in the world to read in a single lifetime; you have to draw the line somewhere.

LibrariesAreNeccessaryGardens,UnsurpassedAtGrowingExcitement

A library of mostly unread books is far more inspiring than a library of books already read. There’s nothing more exciting than finishing a book, and walking over to your shelves to figure out what...

Read and write. That’s the recipe for being a writer.

Learning to read is one of the most extraordinary gifts you’ll ever receive, so open up God’s Word and read the most extraordinary book ever written.

Poetry is not the most important thing in life… I’d much rather lie in a hot bath reading Agatha Christie and sucking sweets.

And read… read all the time… read as a matter of principle, as a matter of self-respect. Read as a nourishing staple of life.