I couldn’t convince her that if I had a book with me, I wasn’t lonely.

For my whole life, my favorite activity was reading. It’s not the most social pastime.

Books don’t offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw.

This place is a mystery. A sanctuary. Every book, every volume you see, has a soul. The soul of the person who wrote it & the soul of those who read it & lived it...

If you cannot judge a book by its cover, surely we should not judge an author by one book alone?

Because when I read, I don’t really read; I pop a beautiful sentence into my mouth and suck it like a fruit drop, or I sip it like a liqueur until the thought dissolves in...

When I was in my twenties and broke, I’d buy books before food. A meal will sustain you for a few hours, a good book will sustain you for life.

Sono convinto che chi non legge resta uno stupido. Anche se nella vita sa destreggiarsi, il fatto di non ingerire regolarmente parole scritte lo condanna ineluttabilmente all’ignoranza, indipendentemente dai suoi averi e dalle sue attività.

Congratulations on the new library, because it isn’t just a library. It is a space ship that will take you to the farthest reaches of the Universe, a time machine that will take you to...

I already read everything. I read poems and plays and novels and newspapers and comic books and magazines. I read tins in supermarkets and leaflets that come through the door, unsolicited mail. None of it...

I appreciate a book intended to be judged by its cover. The insincere readers are often weeded out while the sincere readers remain curious.

I love fortune readings! because when I get in troubles, if the reading says that I am in a lucky day, I can think my troubles are just some kind of mistakes, and if the...

I do not mean to object to a thorough knowledge of the famous works we read. I object only to the interminable comments and bewildering criticisms that teach but one thing: there are as many...

Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and...

When a man finds this kind of woman, he will go all out for her knowing that she will not be a letdown.

He is the only option for better living.

I do not read a book; I hold a conversation with the author.

Do you ever hide books you’ve read over and over again because you’re so sick of them?”Oh, definitely. When they ask for them, I say the book fairy came to get it. One time they...

This is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you’re not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.

Isn’t it odd how much fatter a book gets when you’ve read it several times?” Mo had said…”As if something were left between the pages every time you read it. Feelings, thoughts, sounds, smells…and then,...

I am the man who comes and goes between the bar and the telephone booth. Or, rather:that man is called ‘I’ and you know nothing else about him, just as this station is called only...

First, relax. … And my second helpful hint is that you should not try to memorize anything you read in this book. … My two words of advice are exemplified in what I call the...

One can fight money only with money! from my Tale Of The Rock Pieces.

My grandpa never read the newspaper. Not because he was particularly optimistic, but because he was illiterate. He taught me to read by watching TV.

I see something of a comrade in you. You like a book. Silent revelation on a page pleases you better than a self-bolstering display of verbal spillage. What do you see in me?

I have never experienced a sorrow that was not relieved by an hour of reading.

People disappear when they die. Their voice, their laughter, the warmth of their breath. Their flesh. Eventually their bones. All living memory of them ceases. This is both dreadful and natural. Yet for some there...

Reading (…) is an act of resistance in a landscape of distraction.

One thing I never forgot from my reading–in most cases, misunderstandings were a result of not talking about things. So, early on, I decided the best way to keep matters straight was to talk it...

It is both relaxing and invigorating to occasionally set aside the worries of life, seek the company of a friendly book…from the reading of ‘good books’ there comes a richness of life that can be...

I was an omnivore at reading, so that everything I ever read contributed.

Slowly like a movie fade out, the real world evaporates. I’m alone, inside the world of the story. My favorite feeling in the world.

It’s okay to dress up like another person, but never try to be someone else. Just try to be yourself, because that’s what makes you special. Oh, and watch out if a dragon ever starts...

Books may be irrelevant until it’s relevance, importance and purpose is discovered through reading

In fiction, the characters have their own lives. They may start as a gloss on the author’s life, but they move on from there. In poetry, especially confessional poetry but in other poetry as well,...

I learned to be a regional writer by reading people like Flannery O’Connor. She was a huge influence.

Why does it scare me to think I might be ordinary? I remember when I started first grade and I could hardly pay attention for fear I wouldn’t learn to read and write. I didn’t...

A big book is like a serious relationship; it requires a commitment. Not only that, but there’s no guarantee that you will enjoy it, or that it will have a happy ending. Kind of like...

I don’t know what people should be reading. Only you know what you should be reading.

Let’s be reasonable and add an eighth day to the week that is devoted exclusively to reading.

Reading enables me to maintain a sense of something substantive– my ethical integrity, my intellectual integrity.

Literature is the human activity that takes the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty.

Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.

We don’t want to feel less when we have finished a book; we want to feel that new possibilities of being have been opened to us. We don’t want to close a book with a...

Libraries allow children to ask questions about the world and find the answers. And the wonderful thing is that once a child learns to use a library, the doors to learning are always open.

She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain

Buying a book is not about obtaining a possession, but about securing a portal.

I love staring at my books for hours just trying to decide which book to read next. Doing that is almost as fun as actually reading them.

As long as reading is for us the instigator whose magic keys have opened the door to those dwelling-places deep within us that we would not have known how to enter, its role in our...

We would be worse than we are without the good books we have read, more conformist, not as restless, more submissive, and the critical spirit, the engine of progress, would not even exist. Like writing,...