Mine is to chew on the appropriate texts and make them delectable.

It is only a novel… or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its...

What really knocks me out is a book that, when you’re all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on...

A man can never have too many books. Neither can he have too many fountain pens, hats, fishing rods, waistcoats, tea caddies, paintings or whatever helps him to feel at home in his surroundings and...

I recognized it instantly. It was a made-up story, a fantasy, the tale of four kids who went through a magic wardrobe and found themselves in a strange new world. I’d read it more times...

Non leggete, come fanno i bambini, per divertirvi, o, come fanno gli ambiziosi per istruirvi. No, leggete per vivere.

The pleasure I found in reading books was disconcerting…I felt anxious about every new piece of information. I would latch onto one particular detail and start look for references and other versions of it in...

There is something magical about losing yourself in a world that doesn’t exist.

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On evenings, I spent the entire study period reading….From that time on, the world began to broaden around me, beyond any tangible limits. The world, as portrayed in those works destined for young people, was...

He who reads, shall find answers He seeks.

There wasn’t a place I could think of that was more magical than a building bursting with books and stories and words…

Life is education.Education is a lifetime knowledge.

If you have feelings about reading, you feel the rhythm of prose or of a poem like music. It awakens something in your soul and then of course you study, read, you grow up and...

I’m never going to complain about receiving free early copies of books, because clearly there’s nothing to complain about, but it does introduce a rogue element into one’s otherwise carefully plotted reading schedule. …Being a...

I am grateful to all my readers; you inspired me to keep writing.

explosive material capable of stirring up fresh life endlessly.

Novels arise out of the shortcomings of history.

A good book is like really loved item at a really good restaurant, every time you go there you order it to see if it tastes like you remember, only to find out it is...

Adventure,’ then, is what might otherwise be called hardship if it were attempted in a different spirit. Turning a difficult task or a perilous journey into an adventure is largely a matter of telling yourself...

Books have a complete disregard for your feelings. They don’t care if you are crying. They are going to continue making you cry.

As for me, I feel myself living and thinking in a room where everything is the creation and the language of lives profoundly different from mine, of a taste opposite to mine, where I find...

Reading good literature is an experience of pleasure…but it is also an experience of learning what and how we are, in our human integrity and our human imperfection, with our actions, our dreams, and our...

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

Entrei numa livraria. Pus-me a contar os livros que há para ler e os anos que terei de vida. Não chegam! Não duro nem para metade da livraria! Deve haver certamente outras maneiras de uma...

Each book holds an experience and an adventure.”[Letters of Note; Troy (MI, USA) Public Library, 1971]

In the words of Agatha Swanburne, founder of Swanburne Academy, “Every book is judged by its cover until it is read.

Books allow you to open doors, and chapters allow you to explore

It wasn’t until I started reading and found books they wouldn’t let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else.

I wasn’t really comfortable reading until I was 12.

News invented the modern world as much as the modern world invented news. Finding out what was going on elsewhere in the world change people’s minds about what was possible or tolerable.

12% of employees study further to learn more. 88% of employees study further to earn more.

Oh! it is absurd to have a hard-and-fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn’t. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn’t read.

A library could show you everything if you knew where to look.

An entire life spent reading would have fulfilled my every desire; I already knew that at the age of seven. The texture of the world is painful, inadequate; unalterable, or so it seems to me....

Father and Ivy used to go off on their excursions, never knowing that I was relieved when they were gone. That I’d wear my nightgowns all day and read from dawn till dusk.

All readers have reading in common.

A newspaper that you’re not reading can be used for anything; and the same people didn’t think it was immoral to wrap their garbage in newspaper.

But we do need a breather. We do need knowledge. And perhaps in a thousand years we might pick smaller cliffs to jump off. The books are to remind us what asses and fools we...

Goodness, Mr. Cellini, I’ve not time to answer all these questions. I’ve got to get on.’With what? She seldom did anything but read, as far as he knew. She must have read thousands of books,...

I tell you, the difference for me is between being victimized, terrorized, numbed by reading about different disasters, or reducing the anxiety by getting up and doing something about it, at whatever level.

I wanted to crawl in between those black lines of print, the way you crawl through a fence, and go to sleep under that beautiful big green fig-tree.

…And another item from the growing file of people who voluntarily wear dunce caps… You’ll be talking cordially to someone and make an offhand reference, ‘I recently read where–‘ and they’ll cut you off and...

How had it come about that these particular designs were chosen as our letters? Who decreed what sound would accompany each shape? And how was it decided the manner they would come together to form...

There is in Albert Camus’ literary craftsmanship a seductive intelligence that could almost make a reader dismiss his philosophical intentions if he had not insisted on making them so clear.

You only benefit from books if you can give something back to them. What I mean is, if you approach them in the spirit of a duel, so you can both wound and be wounded,...

The second suggestion is to think as well as to read. I know people who read and read, and for all the good it does them they might just as well cut bread-and-butter. They take...

People are like mugs with different handles. Some can be held by their emotions; others by their logic, passions, desires or dreams

It would be difficult to define the limits of his reading.

Life is a two-way ticket; inbound is random, outbound is unknown