We can learn to pay attention, concentrate, devote ourselves to authors. We can slow down so we can hear the voice of texts, feel the movement of sentences, experience the pleasure of words–and own passages...

A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called “leaves”) imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles. One glance at it and you hear the voice of another person,...

That’s the problem with fiction — or the charm, if you want. Even mediocre plots have a way of sinking their hooks into you, until you find yourself concerned for the fates of characters who...

I could not give up either of these worlds, neither the book I am holding nor the gleaming forest, though I have told you almost nothing of what is said here on these grim pages,...

A person who reads lives more than one life, but that means that they die more than once as well.

The show must go on, and so must The Book.

Books have to be read (worse luck, for it takes a long time); it is the only way of discovering what they contain.

God, the bitter misery that reading works into this world! Everybody knows that – everbody who IS everybody. All the best minds have been off reading for years. Look at the swing La Rouchefoucauld took...

When I’m really into a novel, I’m seeing the world differently during that time— not just for the hour or so in the day when I get to read. I’m actually walking around in a...

Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody can read.”[As quoted in Literary Censorship in England (in Current Opinion, Vol. 55, No. 5, November 1913)]

There’s no such thing as a kid who hates reading. There are kids who love reading, and kids who are reading the wrong books.

Think before you speak. Read before you think.

A good book is always on tap; it may be decanted and drunk a hundred times, and it is still there for further imbibement.

There are good reasons to learn how to read. Poetry isn’t one of them… Why can’t poets just say what they want to say and then shut up?

Untuk bisa membaca banyak buku diperlukan dua hal dimana uang dan waktu tidak termasuk diantaranya. Dua hal tersebut adalah gairah dan kerendahan hati bahwa kita banyak tak tahu.

Man is like a bride unto God. God is jealous when man veers away from Him.

We have all met a class of men, very remarkable for their activity, and who yet make but little headway in life; men who, in their noisy and impulsive pursuit of knowledge, never get beyond...

Blíndur er bóklaus ma∂ur. Blind is a man without a book.

I generally read every night befi=ore I fall asleep: Brad does too. I find it comforting to lie beside my husband, each of us with a book in our hands. I see it as a...

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.

Long novels written today are perhaps a contradiction: the dimension of time has been shattered, we cannot love or think except in fragments of time each of which goes off along its own trajectory and...

My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.

I turn to Mrs. Kasperek; this feels urgent to me. “Do you know what Caliban says when he wants to take away Prospero’s magic? ‘Remember, first to possess his books; for without them he’s but...

I could not resist the clarity of the world in books, the incredibly satisfying way in which life became weighty and accessible. Books were reality. I hadn’t made up my own mind about my own...

Through a history book, I can time travel. Especially a history book from the future.

But reading is different, reading is something you do. With TV, and cinema for that matter, everything’s handed to you on a plate, nothing has to be worked at, they just spoon-feed you. The picture,...

For me to see is to read. It has always been that way.

Reading is action. Even though it is often done quietly and alone, reading is a profoundly social activity, and a vigorous and demanding one. There is nothing passive about reading; it requires attention, energy, an...

If you’re writing a song, you have to write something that can be understood serially. When you’re reading a poem that’s written for the page, your eye can skip up and down. You can see...

But history, real solemn history, I cannot be interested in. Can you?””Yes, I am fond of history.””I wish I were too. I read it a little as a duty, but it tells me nothing that...

Readers are the glue that binds the books together.

My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.

I’m not in the business of reading tea leaves. I don’t have a crystal ball.

Some say they get lost in books, but I find myself, again and again, in the pages of a good book. Humanly speaking, there is no greater teacher, no greater therapist, no greater healer of...

In books I found explicitly, flamboyantly, everything censored in life.

I took the volume to a table, opened its soft, ivory pages… and fell into it as into a pool during dry season.

Reading things that are relevant to the facts of your life is of limited value. The facts are, after all, only the facts, and the yearning passionate part of you will not be met there....

And all I did was read, and when I was too high to read I stared out the windows.

Bücher hatten einfach etwas Sympathisches, ihre bloße Existenz war erfreulich.

The problem with a life spent reading is you know too much.

There is a generation of skimmers. It’s not that they don’t want to read in-depth content, but they want to evaluate what the content is before they commit time. Especially on a mobile phone –...

At the sight of a good book, you just can’t walk away but to claim and read it.

Easy reading is damn hard writing.

Reading books is a way for you to communicate with and learn from the best thinkers that are writing today and that have ever lived.

That’s what I love about reading: one tiny thing will interest you in a book, and that tiny thing will lead you to another book, and another bit there will lead you onto a third...

Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another’s skin, another’s voice, another’s soul.

Read a thousand books, and your words will flow like a river.

And that is the problem with a society that doesn’t read books. The most painful form of censorship does not come from a centralized, repressive government. It is a cast, black cloak of a nation’s...

If winter helps you curl up and more that makes it one of the best of the seasons.

In all memory there is a degree of fallenness; we are all exiles from our own pasts, just as, on looking up from a book, we discover anew our banishment from the bright worlds of...