You don’t read Gatsby, I said, to learn whether adultery is good or bad but to learn about how complicated issues such as adultery and fidelity and marriage are. A great novel heightens your senses...

Read. You can always talk with another reader.

This week I’ve been reading a lot and doing little work. That’s the way things ought to be. That’s surely the road to success.

Digital distribution has widened the reading world.

I have a shelf of comfort books, which I read when the world closes in on me or something untoward happens.

Here in the realm of books she’s self-assured. She has some of the control she doesn’t have anywhere else.

An unread book does nobody any good. Stories happen in the mind of a reader, not among symbols printed on a page.

While the other women turned back to their talk of Saint-Germain, she took the opportunity to curl into her chair again and read, and so remove herself from all her greater cares and all the...

It was a joy! Words weren’t dull, words were things that could make your mind hum. If you read them and let yourself feel the magic, you could live without pain, with hope, no matter...

Criticism demands infinitely more culture than artistic creation.

People love to read about sins and errors, but not their own.

Reading is dreaming with open eyes

Books to the people!

It’s a rare book that wins the battle against drooping eyelids.

Will I have to use a dictionary to read your book?” asked Mrs. Dodypol. “It depends,” says I, “how much you used the dictionary before you read it.

A homeless man visited my store today. The few quarters that he had in his pocket he invested on books. I offered him free books, but he insisted on giving me his quarters. He walked...

Reading off a page is like looking down at a landscape from a balloon – your eye “sees” the story as well as reads it, its layout, its paragraphs and structure, and “remembers” what it...

As I walked in the dark through the tunnels and tunnels of books, I could not help being overcome by a sense of sadness. I couldn’t help thinking that if I, by pure chance. had...

He swatted at her with his book. “Shut up and read, will you?”He lay back down and closed his eyes. Emma glanced over to check that he was smiling, and smiled too.

Reading is a lot like fine dining… Some readers prefer just the meat and potatoes; I enjoy a seven-course meal.

…but what, in this life, is more personal than books?

Libraries can in general be too narrow or too wide for the soul.

The age of the pulp magazine was the last in which youngsters, to get their primitive material, were forced to be literate.

Indeed, learning to write may be part of learning to read. For all I know, writing comes out of a superior devotion to reading.

I’m always reading and looking around for the next thing.

She did not care very much for other little girls, but if she had plenty of books she could console herself.

More than at any other time, when I hold a beloved book in my hand my limitations fall from me, my spirit is free.

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted …but to weigh and consider.

Don’t die without fulfilling your purpose.

The Prince came to give life unto those whose lives were almost being snuffed out by the devil via the cares of this world.

Every night I pray I whisper into a megaphone, not only so God is sure to hear, but also my neighbors, because I pray to God He’ll deliver pestilence and plague to the residents next...

I will tell everyone I know to come [to the library]. This place saves lives.

I can read lips. Especially if they have words tattooed on them.

Weren’t all books ultimately related? After all, the same letters filled them, just arranged in a different order. Which meant that, in a certain way, every book was contained in every other!

Reading haiku is as much an art as writing it. The reader needs to pause and listen to the silences, to feel the spaces between the words, and to journey into the depths of many...

So much of reading and writing to me is about being elsewhere, no matter how much I love where I am.

Sleep is good, he said, And books are better.

This book is impossible to put down!” Well, apparently it’s also impossible to pick up.

The red firelight glowed on their two bonny heads and revealed their faces, animated with the eager interest of children; for, though he was twenty-three and she eighteen, each had so much of novelty to...

When Suzie introduced Helen, she told the audience that one of the best things about books is that they are an interactive art form: that while the author may describe in some detail how a...

He has described in precise, measured words the beautiful desolation he feels at the close of novels where the message is that there is no end to human suffering, only endurance.

I decide a book is bad if I get angrier and angrier as I read it.

I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! — When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable...

..he read whatever came his way, as if it had been ordained by fate,..

It may be escapist, but if I have a choice between watching the news or reading a book which gets me to see the world through different eyes, I will always choose the latter!

You think that’s why I love reading novels so much?

Read it. Know it. Use it.

People who say they don’t have time to read simply don’t want to.

Wo nehm ich nur all die Zeit her, so viel nicht zu lesen?

My alma mater was books, a good library…. I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.