There must be a secret hidden in this book or else you wouldn’t bother to read it

Scripture trains us to listen to and learn from stories of all kinds, inside the sacred text and outside, and to discern patterns and meanings within them. Stories of all sorts form and shape the...

We may sit in our library and yet be in all quarters of the earth.

I grew up on a mixed diet of mass and class, and I still read that way. I hate it when people apologize for what they read. Some bestsellers aren’t exactly literary. So what? They’re...

Every book is a children’s book if the kid can read!

If you like fantasy and you want to be the next Tolkien, don’t read big Tolkienesque fantasies — Tolkien didn’t read big Tolkienesque fantasies, he read books on Finnish philology. Go and read outside of...

When you read a book, the neurons in your brain fire overtime, deciding what the characters are wearing, how they’re standing, and what it feels like the first time they kiss. No one shows you....

A book is a magical thing that lets you travel to far-away places without ever leaving your chair.

We don’t read novels to have an experience like life. Heck, we’re living lives, complete with all the incompleteness. We turn to fiction to have an author assure us that it means something.

But when you read books you almost feel like you’re out there in the world. Like you’re going on this adventure right with the main character. At least, that’s the way I do it. It’s...

As the sweaty, alcohol fuming bodies press in on me from all directions I decide that my ideal of a good time is reading a good novel, alone

I’m wondering what to read next.” Matilda said. “I’ve finished all the children’s books.

There were the people who read and there were the others. Whether you were a reader or a nonreader–it was quickly noted. There was no greater distinction between people.

Nobody can decide for himself whether he is going to be a human being. The only question open to him is whether he will be an ignorant undeveloped one or one who has sought to...

My friend says she’s smart. She reads a book to fall asleep.

He wondered if burned books made a special kind of smoke that clung to the world forever, in the same way that a book, once read, clings to its reader forever.

Woodrow Wilson claimed that history endows us with the “invaluable mental power we call judgment.

He loved books, those undemanding but faithful friends.

The problem in our country isn’t with books being banned, but with people no longer reading. You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

A book is a collaboration between the one who reads and what is read and, at its best, that coming together is a love story like any other.

I read in self-defense.

Books appear to be the most immediate instruments of speculative delight.

It does not take long. Soon the fine galloping language, the gutless swooning full of sapless trees and dehydrated lusts begins to swim smooth and swift and peaceful. It is better than praying without having...

Reading is too intimate,’ Spofforth said. ‘It will put you too close to the feelings and ideas of others. It will disturb and confuse you.

I never grew up reading or fantasizing about fairy tales. I was always too busy, like, outside being a kid.

Books are finite, sexual encounters are finite, but the desire to read and to fuck is infinite; it surpasses our own deaths, our fears, our hopes for peace.

From that time on, the world was hers for the reading. She would never be lonely again, never miss the lack of intimate friends. Books became her friends and there was one for every mood....

When was the last time you read a book? The truth now. And picture books don’t count-I mean something with print in it.

He read a lot, but what he read, and not just that but everything he saw, films and paintings, he translated into feeling. And this feeling, which could not immediately be expressed in words, not...

Not getting what we want can be getting what we need

I’m good at reading people.

A prose that is altogether alive demands something of the reader that the ordinary novel reader is not prepared to give.

But a reader’s ambition knows no bounds.

There is no ME without books; they’re everything I remember from childhood, from maturity … All that’s happened to me has been coloured, permanently, by my reading.

Yet there was always in me, even when I was very small, the sense that I ought to be somewhere else. And wander I did, although, in my everyday life, I had nowhere to go...

The best way to get kids to read a book is to say: ‘This book is not appropriate for your age, and it has all sorts of horrible things in it like sex and death...

To hold a book between your hands, to form the intimate circle, a world apart from the world, an otherness that is uniquely your own. Always accompanied by a sound to no one other than...

I am reading six books at once, the only way of reading; since, as you will agree, one book is only a single unaccompanied note, and to get the full sound, one needs ten others...

When the founding fathers conceived of this new nation, they understood that the education of its citizens would be essential to the health of their democratic enterprise. Knowledge was not just a luxury; it was...

Reading is the Feeding that your mind has been Needing,

My advice to the reader approaching a poem is to make the mind still and blank. Let the poem speak. This charged quiet mimics the blank space ringing the printed poem, the nothing out of...

I love stories that suck you in, that you can’t stop reading because you are quite simply there.

We live and breathe words.

Reading a book is like going on a great journey. You don’t know what’ll happen, but something is bound to change. And for me, that change has always been good.

Are you missing the library again?” Seth asked, startling her as he walked into the room.Kendra turned to face her brother. “You caught me,” she congratulated him. “I’m reading.””I bet the librarians back home are...

This was the curse of the voracious reader, she realized. Real life never quite measured up to the heightened and precise contours of her literary worlds. A real war was never as true as a...

I spent the rest of the day in someone else’s story. The rare moments that I put the book down, my own pain returned in burning stabs.

Despite the enormous quantity of books, how few people read! And if one reads profitably, one would realize how much stupid stuff the vulgar herd is content to swallow every day.

The minutes ticked past. This is why peelers need a book. A wee paperback to stick in your pocket.

I don’t see the use of reading the same thing over and over again,’ said Phillip. ‘That’s only a laborious form of idleness.’But are you under the impression that you have so great a mind...