Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.

You are reading me; over the boundary of time and distance, I am touching you, not with my hands but with my love.

You recreate your world to your taste with God’s Word in your mouth.

A woman can tolerate delays knowing they are not denials; she is diligent, and composed. She is not easily irritated like love; she endures all things, beans all things and can be stretched to any...

But the main reason you should read this is that I don’t see why I should have to know all these terrible, terrible things and you should get off scot free.

She never managed to find herself in these books no matter how hard she tried, exhuming traits from between the pages and donning them for an hour, a day, a week. We think in some...

You can read until you’re blue in the face, but I’d recommend writing until you’re red in the face. And ass.

Reading is going toward something that is about to be, and no one yet knows what it will be.

Robert was the owner and the Executive Director for 99 Red Balloons Japan Inc and entertainment and event company that provided entertainers decorations for promotions, special events, advertising, and for English language instruction at primary...

Read deeply, not to believe, not to accept, not to contradict, but to learn to share in that one nature that writes and reads.

My niece just turned one. I gave her a birthday card that read, “If you can read this, Happy Birthday!

It has been found that reading love quotes is beneficial to your health. It has been found by me, and I found it under my bed.

Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.

The process of reading is somehow heightened through the process of doing it near water. Extreme reading!

I would look at the first chapter of any new novel as a final test of its merits. If there was a murdered man under the sofa in the first chapter, I read the story....

Books help me create a better reality.

I enjoyed writing. Perhaps it was because I hardly heard the sound of my own voice. My written words were my voice, speaking, singing, … I was there on the page

A classroom atmosphere that promotes reading does not come from the furniture and its placement as much as it comes from the teacher’s expectation that students will read.

I should like to write about what happens when fictive people encounter and are embellished by real people.

Motionless we traverse countries we fancy we see, and your thought, blending with the fiction, playing with the details, follows the outline of the adventures. It mingles with the characters, and it seems as if...

Well, I usually can’t, but neither the book nor the conversation is particularly intellectually challenging.

Deciding what to read is also a matter of filtering.

I’ve just finished reading some of my early papers, and you know, when I’d finished I said to myself, ‘Rutherford, my boy, you used to be a damned clever fellow.’ (1911)

Bore children, and they stop reading. There’s no room for self-indulgence or showing off or setting the scene.

I shudder to think of an eternity spend without books. I have hopes that every book that was ever lost is somewhere waiting for me when my life here finally ends.

The man who does not read miss a great literature of knowledge. You must dare to read and reread.

I’m not a stranger,” I said, and pointed to his book. “I’m someone who reads the same authors you do.

In a school community, someone who reads a book for some secretive purpose, other than discussing it, is strange. What was she reading for?

No, no. Not a genius. This is like what reading is like for you. You look at the squiggles and loops, and the puzzle opens until suddenly nothing means something, something more than the sum...

Maybe Heaven will be a library. Then I will be able to finish my to-read list.

If a book is easy and fits nicely into all your language conventions and thought forms, then you probably will not grow much from reading it. It may be entertaining, but not enlarging to your...

So I kept reading, just to stay alive. In fact, I’d read two or three books at the same time, so I wouldn’t finish one without being in the middle of another — anything to...

Surround yourself with music. Just be sure to turn the radio on.

The child who gets lost in a book can emerge from the experience a changeling.

Reading feeds the soul, writing nourishes it!

He kissed me for a long moment, holding my shoulders, perhaps to keep me from pressing my whole body against his. Then he tried to lift my bag.”My God,” he said. “What happened?””I found out...

You know what pulp is, Mr. Tallis? It’s the flesh of a luscious fruit, mashed down into an incredible, half liquid richness. so saturated with flavor that it fills your whole body, not just your...

A book is more than a verbal structure or series of verbal structures; it is the dialogue it establishes with its reader and the intonation it imposes upon his voice and the changing and durable...

Learning and knowing something is cool, but superb knowledge comes when you leave your books and become the inner world’s friend.

The second death. To think that you died and no one would remember you. I wondered if this was why we tried so hard to make our mark in America. To be known. Think of...

By reading older books we get a taste of the conversation of Heaven.

I wanted to pull down a book, open it proper, and gobble up page after page

I think that pretty much every form of fiction (I’d include fantasy, obviously) can actually be a real escape from places where you feel bad, and from bad places. It can be a safe place...

I don’t believe one reads to escape reality. A person reads to confirm a reality he knows is there, but which he has not experienced.

I was always reading books when I should have been doing math and the rest of it.

Jane’s stories are too sensible. Then Diana puts too much murders into hers. She says most of the time she doesn’t know what to do with the people so she kills them off to get...

I read a lot of books. Here are the books I’m using for my 9/11 project. [Wright gestures to three six-foot-long shelves of books.] As I read them I highlight certain passages. Then I have...

I read my eyes out and can’t read half enough…the more one reads the more one sees we have to read.

Everybody comes to the library naked. That’s why they come here – to dress themselves in books.

I am an Author a person who plays with words so they can dance in the minds of others