How do you choose your books?’ my friends had asked. Less than a week into my project, I can now tell them the beginning of the truth. I don’t always choose the books, I’ll say....

I’ve decided that it’s possible to love someone for entirely selfless reasons, for all of their flaws and weaknesses, and still not succeed in having them love you back. It’s sad, perhaps, but not tragic,...

What are books but tangible dreams? What is reading if it is not dreaming? The best books cause us to dream; the rest are not worth reading.

Books are like oxygen to a deep-sea diver,” she had once said. “Take them away and you might as well begin counting the bubbles.

I would like to spare the time and effort of hack reviewers and, generally, persons who move their lips when reading.

A book lives a new life every time it is read.

You will learn most things by looking, but reading gives understanding. Reading will make you free.

So it is that a writer writes many books. In each book, he intended several urgent and vivid points, many of which he sacrificed as the book’s form hardened.

I suppose if I had to give a one-word answer to the question of why I read, that word would be pleasure. The kind of pleasure you can get from reading is like no other...

A book a week I heave a sigh;That Slogan’s peremptory cryI will not hear, I will not heed.How can They say that I should needThe book They bid me weekly buy?But Slogans change, as days...

What is literature but the expression of moods by the vehicle of symbol and incident? And are there not moods which need heaven, hell, purgatory, and faeryland for their expression, no less than this dilapidated...

What an astonishing thing a book is. It’s a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you’re inside...

The reading of good books could soothe human stupidity, the problem is that human stupidity does not like to read.

Neither would you, had you grown up in a library of melodramatic romance novels.

Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.

What is it about us lady authors and our fascination for the exclamation mark?

When you broadcast your book reading voluntarily, it creates moments of fascinating serendipity.

O perigo de penetrar apaixonadamente no mundo dos livros é o de nos tornarmos, nós próprios, no aglomerado de pequenos excertos literários.

Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but, most important, it finds homes for us everywhere.

These are just stories, you know. They are part of what we are, but they are not the real thing. All this year I’ve been thinking, What would White Raven do? And today, every time...

When he [Malevranche] happened to find Descartes’ book entitled Man in a book shop on the rue Saint Jaques, he leafed through it, bought it and “read it with so much pleasure that he was...

Nowhere will you meet more interesting people than in books.

Quand je lis un livre, j’y mets toute mon imagination, de sorte qu’en ce sens la lecture ressemble un peu à l’écriture; ou plutôt c’est comme si je vivais ce que je lisais

Many scholars forget, it seems to me, that our enjoyment of the great works of literature depends more upon the depth of our sympathy than upon our understanding. The trouble is that very few of...

We’ve inherited many ideas about writing that emerged in the eighteenth century, especially an interest in literature as both an expression and an exploration of the self. This development part of what distinguishes the “modern”...

Men love women who are courageous for it means they can go all the way with him in his pursuit of his good dreams and intentions.

We cannot prevail by our own might or strength, we need to plug on to the source of our strength so that we will remain resourceful always.

When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading.

As an actor, you’re pretty much a hired gun. You are reading other people’s words off of a page and doing what they want you to do.

As you grow ready for it, somewhere or other you will find what is needful for you in a book.

You’re never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child.

No se asombre de verme siempre vagando con los ojos. En realidad este es mi modo de leer, y solo así la lectura me resulta fructífera. Si un libro me interesa realmente, no logro seguirlo...

She was a great and insatiable reader, surprisingly well acquainted with the classics of literature, and unexpectedly lavish in the purchase of books. Her neighbours never forgot to mention, in describing her, the awe-inspiring fact...

Children are made readers on the laps of their parents.

Reading is difficult. People just aren’t meant to read anymore. We’re in a post-literate age. You know, a visual age. How many years after the fall of Rome did it take for a Dante to...

The only book I’d read in the shower is Naked Lunch, because my bathtub is in the center of my kitchen. I make breakfast like I make love, and sometimes I’m so hungry I make...

Sloveso číst nestrpí rozkazovací způsob. Tuto nechuť sdílí s několika dalšími: se slovesem “milovat”… nebo například “snít”…

Still in my coat and hat, I sank onto the stair to read the letter. (I never read without making sure I am in a secure position. I have been like this ever since the...

Don’t join the book burners. Don’t think you’re going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don’t be afraid to go in your library and read every book…

A fondness for reading, properly directed, must be an education in itself.

A book can open the mind, free the heart, and speak to the soul.

You can never read too much into anything

The more you read, the better you get, the more better you get, the more you like it; and the more you like it, the more you do it.

Halfway across town, Father Tibor Kasparian lay on the long hard cement cot that was what this jail cell had for a bed and wished he had a book. It could be any book. He...

there exist a great parity between things inside books and things outside books. What are inside books, are not all that different from what are outside books

How are we to spend our lives, anyway? That is the real question. We read to seek the answer, and the search itself–the task of a lifetime–becomes the answer.

I am a machine condemned to devour books.

I was only good at one thing: words. I had read more, much more, than anybody else, and I knew how words worked in the way that some boys knew how engines worked.

Literature is impossible, in exactly this sense: every new generation has so much ‘catching up’ to do that the real choice that presents itself soon is the following one: one either spends ones entire life...

How can a man know how to live rightly on the face of earth? By daily reading and meditation on the Holy Scriptures and obedience to what is written.