He may really have been enjoying an embryonic composition of his own stimulated by mere hints in the book.

Anger is like a creeper vine that strangles the tree on which it grows

The problem with books is that they end.

A book is like a pump. It gives nothing unless first you give to it. You prime a pump with your own water, you work the handle with your own strength. You do this because...

Every reader exists to ensure for a certain book a modest immortality. Reading is, in this sense, a ritual of rebirth.

If it is not strong upon your heart to practice what you read, to what end do you read? To increase your own condemnation? If your light and knowledge be not turned into practice, the...

Since the age of five I had been one of those people who was an indefatigable reader, more inclined to go off by myself with a book than do any of the dozens of things...

I look at words as if they were entities, sacred beings. There are words to which I tip my hat when I see them sitting on a page.

I was reading.You’re always reading. The only way people can ever talk to you is to interrupt. Then maybe they shouldn’t talk to me.

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...

Reading teaches us the nuances of humanity. To find the beauty of what is moral and ethical in your own actions and discover the strange subtlety of what it is to question why you should...

Reading may be the last secretive behavior that is neither pathological or prosecutable. It is certainly the last refuge from the real-time epidemic. For the stream of a narrative overflows the banks of the real....

The book that simply demands to be read, for no good reason, is asking us to change our lives by putting aside what we usually think of as good reasons. It’s asking us to stop...

He had some taste for romance reading before he went to the university, where, we must confess, in justice to his college, he was cured of the love of reading in all its shapes; and...

You should write because you love the shape of stories and sentences and the creation of different words on a page. Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write.

I know that I am a small, weak man, but I have amassed a large library; I dream of dangerous places.

I love to read. My favorite thing.

Apa gunanya banyak baca bukuKalau mulut kau bungkam melulu

In reading you must pursue to become a creator.

I am a practical girl, and a life is only so long. It should be spent in as much peace and good eating and good reading as possible and no undue excitement. That is all...

Alcohol makes other people less tedious, and food less bland, and can help provide what the Greeks called entheos, or the slight buzz of inspiration when reading or writing. The only worthwhile miracle in the...

Usually, I set one foot in a library and I feel my own internal volume lower. A library is a physical equivalent of a sigh. It’s the silence, sure, but it’s also the certainty of...

Go ahead, and fear not. You will have a full library at your service.

When you sell a man a book you don’t sell him just 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue – you sell him a whole new life.

Lügen schmerzen, die Wahrheit jedoch bewegt uns.

Reading always calmed me down: filling my head with other – made up – people’s problems and conflicts made my own seem less terrible, less real.

Madam Pince, our librarian, tells me that it is ‘pawed about, dribbled on, and generally maltreated’ nearly everyday – a high compliment for any book.

Have you never picked up a book you’ve read before, and found it speaks to you in a new way?

Without unscrambled eggs, there was no time travel, no more depredation of the Now, and we could look to a brighter future of long-term thought–and more reading.

In a bookstore you can find me in the romance section, because I’m not a lover, I’m a reader.

There is no better adviser than a good book.

Your mouth is not given to you for feeding alone; it is given to you to programme events and circumstance around you.

A matured woman is therefore a responsible woman irrespective of her age, status and qualification.

There is nothing like the moment you connect with a reader! Nothing like the response that you get when what you have written touches someone in some way. It’s a moment in which your work...

Bean felt a rush of sweet nostalgia for the woman who had introduced us to E. Nesbit and Edward Eager and Laura Ingalls Wilder…

A writer edits his thoughts more thoroughly the more readers he has. You can tell I only have two readers, myself included.

If you’re going to fall in love with anyone, fall in love with a writer. Allow yourself to become immortalised in words.

A written word is the choicest of relics. It is something at once more intimate with us and more universal than any other work of art. It is the work of art nearest to life...

You can be a writer who doesn’t read everyday. But you’re not fooling anyone. It shows, rather embarrassingly, in your work.

I won’t read a book whose pages have been dog-eared, because I’m more of a cat person.

Reading isn’t quite loud, but it’s quiet and loud—quiet on the outside, loud on the inside. Sort of like a mime orgy.

Reading relaxes me.

I don’t think anything’s more rewarding than hearing that you’ve helped someone gain a love of reading.

How does one develop compassion for someone with a completely different set of values without reading something from their point of view? Books are one of the ways in which we can truly get into...