Reading and writing are not education if they do not help people to be kind to all creatures

I have found that reading is much better than a good sleep.

One benefit of Summer was that each day we had more light to read by.

I was a lazy reader as a kid. One nutrition label on a box of Cap’n Crunch and I’d have to take a nap.

One of the most difficult things when you were trying to navigate the world of books was dealing with all the unreliable authors. They were so unbelievably tricky to keep track of. An author might...

Yes, I read. I have that absurd habit. I like beautiful poems, moving poetry, and all the beyond of that poetry. I am extraordinarily sensitive to those poor, marvelous words left in our dark night...

Despereaux was reading the story out loud to himself. He was reading from the beginning so that he could get to the end…

We tell ourselves stories in order to live.

Every time a written word is put to page it is the opportunity to expand our minds, whether we are the writer or the reader. Enjoy the journey wherever it may take you!

Deux choses donnent du sens à la vie : les livres et l’amour.

Sometimes I just want to shout, “READ ALL MY FAVORITE BOOKS!

The first time I read an excellent book, it is to me just as if I had gained a new friend. When I read a book over I have perused before, it resembles the meeting...

The pen, a double-edged mystery: cuts the writer, heals the reader.

Reading a great work of literature can truly be likened to having a conversation with a great mind.

We profit little by books we do not enjoy.

I remember that story. You have read it four times.” Samson shrugged. “Why should I stop with the first reading? Nobody says, ‘That was a fine piece of music. I’ll never listen to that again.”...

It is when we are faced with death that we turn most bookish.

To read a novel is to wonder constantly, even at moments when we lose ourselves most deeply in the book: How much of this is fantasy, and how much is real?

No one knows as well as I how much nonsense is printed in books.

..books look as if they contain knowledge, while e-readers look as if they contain information.

The nature of poemsIs a matter of words and deedsAn intimate encounter of voiceIn the ache of the heartIn the labor of breathingA hesitant casting of eyesAway from the mundane to seeThat delicate and shiny...

…he had to comfort himself with the firm conviction that most of what he objected to in Mohawk and the world at large was not the result of people reading the wrong books, but rather...

A newspaper is an oversized book with adverts and an expiry date.

Reading messed with my brain in an unaccountable way. It made me happy; or something.

If I am alive this is my book, and my father lives now in the afterlife that is a book, a thing not vague or virtual but something you can hold and feel and smell...

Eddie Carroll had just come in from outside, and read Noonan’s letter standing in the mudroom. He flipped to the beginning of the story. He stood reading for almost five minutes before noticing he was...

Only a generation of readers will span a generation of writers.

Much better he should read for the first half of his life and then live for the next half. That’s the proper sequence to know what you’re doing. Nowadays, they start off by living and...

I often find that a novel, even a well-written and compelling novel, can become a blur to me soon after I’ve finished reading it. I recollect perfectly the feeling of reading it, the mood I...

You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

After all, that’s why we read historical fiction-to be transported to another time, and to be astonished at ancient people’s lives and traditions, just as they would probably be astonished at ours.

His gaze settles on the discarded book. He leans, reaching until his fingertips graze Dante’s Inferno, still on its bed of folded sheets. “What have we here?” he asks.”Required reading,” I say.”It’s a shame they...

He said it was the kind of book you made your own.

Libraries are always bigger on the inside because every book has an entire word inside of it.

It’s tempting to say the Ph.D. didn’t have an effect, but it’s not so. I think whatever resonance I may be able to achieve is in part simply from the amount of reading and learning...

Maelyn smiled. If books could have litters, she’d be just as happy.

Until then I had thought each book spoke of the things, human or divine, that lie outside books. Now I realized that not infrequently books speak of books: it is as if they spoke among...

Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

We shouldn’t ask if life has a meaning, we should ask to whom life has what kinds of meanings

Even if it is a vice to read science fiction, those who cannot understand the very temptation to that vice will not be likely to tell us anything of value about it.

Life is a journey where people travel through each other’s memories. If you want to keep a secret well, keep it from yourself

A book read by a thousand different people is a thousand different books.

So — I confess I have been a rake at reading. I have read those things which I ought not to have read, and I have not read those things which I ought to have...

We can imagine the books we’d like to read, even if they have not yet been written, and we can imagine libraries full of books we would like to possess, even if they are well...

If you are too busy to read, you are too busy.

…the point, the essential quality of the act of reading, now and always, is that it tends to no foreseeable end, to no conclusion. Every reading prolongs another, begun in some afternoon thousands of years...

We buy books because we believe we’re buying the time to read them.[Inside Out (VH1)]

Deprived of their newspapers or a novel, reading-addicts will fall back onto cookery books, on the literature which is wrapped around bottles of patent medicine, on those instructions for keeping the contents crisp which are...

Leaders are readers, disciples want to be taught and everyone has gifts within that need to be coached to excellence.

The books we read help to shape who we are. Reading offers us, as children, our first independence- allowing us to travel far beyond the confines of our immediate world. Books introduce us to great...