Some people say readin too many books will stunt your growth.

There are stages we all go through when dealing with character deaths. Grief. Anger. Denial. Laughter. Coulson.

If your TV is broken, don’t get a new one—get a new hobby: reading.

Reader’s Bill of Rights1. The right to not read 2. The right to skip pages 3. The right to not finish 4. The right to reread 5. The right to read anything 6. The right...

As long as you have any floor space at all, you have room for books! Just make two stacks of books the same height, place them three or four feet apart, lay a board across...

Of course. You get everything from books.

No, I have never had a problem finding books to read. But I have had a problem finding people who understand what it’s like to really LOVE reading. Maybe even need it. People who associate...

I am sure Lady Russell would like him. He is just Lady Russell’s sort. Give him a book, and he will read all day long.’ ‘Yes, that he will!’ exclaimed Mary tauntingly. ‘He will sit...

Leía mucho, lo que no quiere decir que leyera muchos libros. Más bien prefería releer las obras que me habían gustado. (…) Así pues, no tenía este punto en común con los demás, y leía...

The paper is patient, but the reader is not.

I feel closer ties and more intimate bonds with certain characters in books, with certain images I’ve seen in engravings, than with many supposedly real people with the metaphysical absurdity known as ‘flesh and blood’....

…that the decline in reading among children was largely the fault of their parents. Parents these days don’t read books, themselves, but they feel they should make their children read. Since they aren’t readers, however,...

To have come on all this new world of writing, with time to read in a city like Paris where there was a way of living well and working, no matter how poor you were,...

Hard work makes easy reading or, at least, easier reading.

Books and doors are the same thing. You open them, and you go through into another world.

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…

Learning to decipher words had only added to the pleasures of holding spines and turning pages, measuring the journey to the end with a thumb-riffle, poring over frontispieces. Books! Opening with a crackle of old...

One of my greatest pleasures in writing has come from the thought that perhaps my work might annoy someone of comfortably pretentious position. Then comes the saddening realization that such people rarely read.

…Samuel rode lightly on top of a book and he balanced happily among ideas the way a man rides white rapids in a canoe. But Tom got into a book, crawled and groveled between the...

I’ve developed a great reputation for wisdom by ordering more books than I ever had time to read, and reading more books, by far, than I learned anything useful from, except, of course, that some...

There are books so alive that you’re always afraid that while you weren’t reading, the book has gone and changed, has shifted like a river; while you went on living, it went on living too,...

Like a forgotten old photograph, this dream will stay pressed, between the pages of a book you don’t feel like reading anymore.

A good book will pull you in from the beginning and take you on a journey you’ll never forget.

When I am king they shall not have bread and shelter only, but also teachings out of books, for a full belly is little worth where the mind is starved.

Fiction should be a place of lollipops and escape. Real life is depressing enough–I, for one, don’t want to read about make believe misery, too.

I think we should always remember that reading — the experience of a book — is a very private, very personal kind of thing. Sometimes the best response to such an experience is: silence.

The Chinese have a habit of reading. Many families regard books as the most valuable family asset.

I believe we have an obligation to read for pleasure, in private and in public places. If we read for pleasure, if others see us reading, then we learn, we exercise our imaginations. We show...

I don’t want little kids reading my comics.

The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose.

You don’t read to exercise the mind but to take voyages

Clearly, you underestimate my relationship with wine and what I do on the weekends when I’m by myself reading.

Man is what he reads.

I walked to the bookcase and examined the storybooks inside. As a girl, I had dreamed of having stacks of books at my disposal–stories to get lost in, other worlds to live in when mine...

I now remembered that Mrs. Todd had told me one day that Captain Littlepage had overset his mind with too much reading.

It’s always so cool to think you are looking at today is something other people have been looking at for centuries. It’s the closest I’ve come to touching immortality, by reading the words of dead...

When you read to a child, when you put a book in a child’s hands, you are bringing that child news of the infinitely varied nature of life. You are an awakener.

… be knygų jau nebegalėjau apsieiti. Ne tiek be knygų, kiek be paties skaitymo. Mano akys į nieką daugiau nenorėjo žiūrėti, jos tiesiog šaukte šaukė: ,,Duok mums raidžių!.. Duok mums raidžių!..” Nežinau, gal yra tokia...

You read, move your lips, figure out the words, and it’s like you’re in two places at the same time: you’re sitting or lying with your legs curled up, your hand groping in the bowl,...

It’s not enough to know what all the words mean,” he continued. “A good reader starts to see what an entire book is trying to say. And then a good reader will have something to...

For me, stories are like WD-40 for the brain: they keep all the wheels and gears and clicky-things running smoothly. Without them, cognitive function becomes a bore.

But I too hate long books: the better, the worse. If they’re bad they merely make me pant with the effort of holding them up for a few minutes. But if they’re good, I turn...

I believe that life is all about perception and timing. That good things come to those who act and that life’s about more than collecting a paycheck. I believe that the only person you’re destined...

Tis the good reader that makes the good book; in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakenly meant for his ear; the profit of books is...