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...

That, incidentally, gives me the greatest possible pleasure—the knowledge that we are all linked by our friendship with a group of fictional people. What a pleasant club of which to be a member! [from the...

Read different to think differently; world is already into rat race.

Each spine was an encapsulated memory, each book represented hours, days of pleasure, of immersion into words.

We may be sure that the characteristic blindness of the twentieth century – the blindness about which posterity will ask, “But how could they have thought that?” – lies where we have never suspected it…...

Books were seen as a waste of time. What was the point, unless you were reading for information? To lose oneself in a book was to be slightly wacky, a little greedy and ultimately slothful....

A book reads the better which is our own, and has been so long known to us, that we know the topography of its blots, and dog’s ears, and can trace the dirt in it...

How are you supposed to know what to read next? This is the question that keeps us up at night, so at Day One our mission is to feed an audience of literature-hungry, time-constrained readers...

I’m afraid I’ve degenerated into a bibliophile.

I swooned again – I had that moment of falling in love with reading again.

I don’t have a lot of time. I can give a poem a couple of lines, a short story a paragraph, and a novel a few pages, then if I can stop reading without a...

I am not gifted. When I read, the words twisttwirl across the page.When they settle, it is too late.The class has already moved on.I want to catch words one day. I want to hold themthen...

The serious reader in the age of technology is a rebel by definition: a protester without a placard, a Luddite without hammer or bludgeon. She reads on planes to picket the antiseptic nature of modern...

He fed his spirit with the bread of books

Books were something that happened to readers. Readers were the victims of books.

I think that every reader on earth has a list of cherished books as unique as their fingerprints….I think that, as you age, you tend to gravitate towards the classics, but those aren’t the books...

Weigh whatever you are about to say; what will it do to your hearer – encouragement, edification, disappointment or fear? What will it do to your life – glorify, edify, beautify or weigh you down?...

A woman that is patient has the ability to endure provocation, pain, annoyance etc, with much calm and strength.

A blessed companion is a book–a book that, fitly chosen, is a lifelong friend…a book that, at a touch, pours its heart into your own.

Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.

When I can’t write I read. When I can’t read I sleep. And when I can’t sleep I write.

Stories always go on. They don’t end on the last page any more than they begin on the first page

After this, Boy became very curious about the mansion where the clothes and the food came from. He made me describe everything. Then he asked Good Thing ‘Are there books in this mansion, too?”And pictures...

Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.

Sure, I knew the differences between a space opera and a hard-boiled detective story and a historical novel…but I never cared about such differences. It seemed to me, then as now, that there are good...

I read trash. Empty cereal boxes, empty shampoo bottles, the bottoms of empty Kleenex boxes, and occasionally even a mystical self-help book.

There is no Frigate like a Book To take us Lands awayNor any Coursers like a Page Of prancing Poetry – This Traverse may the poorest takeWithout oppress of Toll – How frugal is the...

I would rather read a mediocre book than waste time sitting around with people making small talk.

We should read to give our souls a chance to luxuriate.

Gro Rollag was no beauty, but she was a strong capable young woman with a long face, prominent cheekbones, high forehead, and a kindly intelligent look in her rather narrow eyes. According to family lore,...

The evils arising from the loss of her uncle were neither trifling nor likely to lessen; and when thought had been freely indulged, in contrasting the past and the present, the employment of mind and...

So this is what I get for reading too many books I suppose.