Reading is not simply an intellectual pursuit but an emotional and spiritual one. It lights the candle in the hurricane lamp of self; that’s why it survives.”[Turning the Page: The future of reading is backlit...

A woman reading is a grave temptation.

His reading suggested a man swimming in the sea among the wreckage of his ship, and trying to save his life by greedily clutching first at one spar and then at another.

documentary,” whose outcomes are flagrantly manipulative, self-serving, or both. Usually both.

somehow, somewhere” or Alice’s backyard, a world that runs parallel to the real one, whose occupants need no passport or documentation. The only requirements for entry are an open mind, a restless desire to know...

Reading is sometimes thought of as a form of escapism, and it’s a common turn of phrase to speak of getting lost in a book. But a book can also be where one finds oneself;...

If I’m engrossed in a book, I have to rearrange my thoughts before I can mingle with other people, because otherwise they might think I was strange.

Readership is highly dependent upon format and distribution as much as it is on content.

My fingers burn behind the keys of my typewriter, the lettering fading with every thoughtful strike. The many words I write I dare not stall; my mind perpetually alert for my magnum opus call.

And as I surveyed the clutter of his study I was pleased to see that he was a man after my own heart. All of his money appeared to have been spent on either books...

Not a wall in the building lacked books. Books even occupied the space above doorways.

That’s how you have to read this book, you see. You wade through a few sentences, then stop and think about them, then wade through a few more.

great books are the ones we need

It is a most wonderful comfort to sit alone beneath a lamp, book spread before you, and commune with someone from the past whom you have never met.

People read books to escape the uncertainties of life.

To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.

When reading, we don’t fall in love with the characters’ appearance. We fall in love with their words, their thoughts, and their hearts. We fall in love with their souls.

I find that when I come out of the library I’m in what I call the library bliss of being totally taken away from the distractions of life.”[Woman’s Day magazine, March 12, 2002]

Get lost in a story, in a dream fantasy…

When I read a daring book or listen to rebellious music, I feel like I’ve found what freedom really means.

Give yourself to reading.’… You need to read. Renounce as much as you will all light literature, but study as much as possible sound theological works,especially the Puritanic writers, and expositions of the Bible.

If time heals all wounds, and a book can hold a person’s entire life, then you can speed up the process with a pulp time warp.

Each book has a reader, and each reader has a book.

That’s what this country needs — more books!

Imagine a very long time passing – and I find my way out, following someone who already knows how to leave Hell. And God says to me on Earth for the first time, “Xas!” in...

A library is a place where you can lose your innocence without losing your virginity.

I think it’s the books that you read when you’re young that live with you forever.

She must have been very anxious about a first boy friend to fall in love with a Colgate boy

Take no heed of her…. She reads a lot of books.

Books can be dangerous. The best ones should be labeled “This could change your life.

No book is really worth reading, which does not either impart valuable knowledge; or set before us some ideal of beauty, strength, or nobility of character. There are enough great books to occupy us during...

Reading is a beautiful prayer for knowledge.

Create your world with God’s Word in your mouth just say it and it will be accomplished!

Ladies, get confident about yourselves, build up your self-worth and esteem, love yourself and be proud of your achievements and your man will adore you for life.

Because even among contrarians, I’m a contrarian. But all of this is just words of bronze, third place rhetoric. What do I really mean when I say we want to shock society into awareness? Do...

I have loved this disaster of a library since I was old enough to read.

Reading requires actual concentration. If you skipped a paragraph, or even an important sentence, you could lose the entire story. With most TV shows, though, you didn’t have to concentrate at all. You could space...

Don’t be amazed if you see my eyes always wandering. In fact, this is my way of reading, and it is only in this way that reading proves fruitful to me. If a book truly...

Euripides “questioned everything. He was a misanthrope who preferred books to men.

Aesthetic criticism returns us to the autonomy of imaginative literature and the sovereignty of the solitary soul, the reader not as a person in society but as the deep self, our ultimate inwardness.

Some people read books on musicians, while I read music books. Not books on music, but literally books full of sheet music. Fascinating reading.

I read about sneezing and immediately sneezed. I must be allergic to reading.

Now you tell your father not to teach you any more. It’s best to begin reading with a fresh mind. You tell him I’ll take over from here and try to undo the damage–

To prohibit the reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves.

No construirás una máquina a semejanza de la mente del hombre.-Biblia católica naranja-

Books are both our luxuries and our daily bread.

I am no novel-reader — I seldom look into novels — Do not imagine that I often read novels — It is really very well for a novel.” Such is the common cant. “And what...

Students will read if we give them the books, the time, and the enthusiastic encouragement to do so. If we make them wait for the one unit a year in which they are allowed to...

Read. Everything you can get your hands on. Read until words become your friends. Them when you need to find one, they will jump into your mind, waving their hands for you to pick them....

Envy, as distasteful as it is, has seeped into my mind on rare occasions, and those I’ve envied, although few in number, have only been those that live a life of leisure with peace of...