I was too much of a Bronx kid to read Emerson or Hawthorne.

When we are connected to the source, we will not be afraid of any task set before us.

Don’t just float through life; don’t just agree to anything and everything, have a course you are known for at all times.

Literature is news that stays news.

There are adventures of the spirit and one can travel in books and interest oneself in people and affairs. One need never be dull as long as one has friends to help, gardens to enjoy...

When I get hold of a book I particularly admire, I am so enthusiastic that I loan it to someone who never brings it back.

Something must always remain that eludes us … For power to have an object on which it can be exercised, a space in which to stretch out its arms … As long as I know...

How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.

He didn’t much like reading novels – he preferred history or philosophy – or poetry, although he could read only a little poetry at a time, because when a poem “spoke to him” it was...

The Cat In The Hat,” I won’t need to protect my sensitive lips anymore.

Jacksonville has more public libraries than people who know how to read.

No man can be called friendless who has God and the companionship of good books.

The text-book is rare that stimulates its reader to ask, Why is this so? Or, How does this connect with what has been read elsewhere?

One of the great things about books is sometimes there are some fantastic pictures.

Luckily, I always travel with a book, just in case I have to wait on line for Santa, or some such inconvenience.

Heaven is a warm cat and a good book.

Winny didn’t know what he would do without his books, except probably go berserk and start killing people and making ashtrays out of their skulls even though he didn’t smoke and never would.

I value my anonymity. I’m happy to come in on the tube or the train and watch other people reading ‘Fifty Shades.’

There is no such thing as a child who hates to read; there are only children who have not found the right book.

Reading teaches us receptivity….It teaches us to receive, in stillness and attentiveness, a voice possessed temporarily, on loan….And as we grow accustomed to receiving books in stillness and attentiveness, so we can grow to receive...

I know that books seem like the ultimate thing that’s made by one person, but that’s not true… Every reading of a book is a collaboration between the reader and the writer who are making...

Everyone’s talking about the death and disappearance of the book as a format and an object. I don’t think that will happen. I think whatever happens, we have to figure out a way to protect...

But when your heart is tired and dumb, your soul has need of ease,There’s none like the quiet folk who wait in libraries–The counselors who never change, the friends who never go,The old books, the...

It only took Alexis a day to read a five-hundred page book. Fiction stories took her to another world where she could lose herself for a while in someone else’s life.Its funny how things like...

If you have read 6,000 books in your lifetime, or even 600, it’s probably because at some level you find ‘reality’ a bit of a disappointment.

The thing about Tolkien, about The Lord of the Rings, is that it’s perfect. It’s this whole world, this whole process of immersion, this journey. It’s not, I’m pretty sure, actually true, but that makes...

Storytelling is my passion, and it rises from a love of reading.

Rest, nature, books, music…such is my idea of happiness.

We become the books we read.

Walking into a bookshop is a depressing thing. It’s not the pretentious twats, browsing books as part of their desirable lifestyle. It’s not the scrubby members of staff serving at the counter: the pseudo-hippies and...

In Tereza’s eyes, books were the emblems of a secret brotherhood. For she had but a single weapon against the world of crudity surrounding her: the novels. She had read any number of them, from...

As I turned over the last page, a wave of sorrow enveloped me. Where had they all gone, these people who had seemed so real? To distract myself, I walked out into the night; instinctively,...

Books crowbar the world open for you.

[Books are] vital to learning. Half the population don’t go to football matches but that doesn’t make football any less important.

I like to read as much as I can from every genre. That way, I can express my love for all writers.

The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library,’The medicines of the soul.

Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot.BY ORDER...

How do you press a wildflower into the pages of an e-book?

Yet the experience of reading a novel has certain qualities that remind us of the traditional apprehension of mythology. It can be seen as a form of meditation. Readers have to live with a novel...

People with Books. What, in 2007, could be more incongruous than that? It makes me want to laugh.”[Afterword]

I bought you something” Willows blurts out.”You bought…What?”Willow closes her eyes for a second. She’s a little surprised she’s going to give it to him after all, but there’s no going back now. She has...

The American writer and dilettante Logan Pearsall Smith once said: ‘Some people think that life is the thing; but I prefer reading.’ When I first came across this, I thought it witty; now I find...

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The books brought brilliance to my life, and they brought an understanding: Life is a story. Everything that has happened and will happen to me is all part of the story of this enchanted place...

When reading a book, you are sold what some writer thought. When reading a newspaper, you are sold what someone did, and, what some advertiser made.

I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.

Reading is one of the greatest gifts given to humankind.

Time machines, magic portals, transporters, worm holes, flying carpets, relocation charms—such things do exist. They’re called books.

To read is to struggle to name, to subject the sentences of a text to a semantic transformation. This transformation is erratic; it consists in hesitating among several names: if we are told that Sarrasine...

A child’s reading is guided by pleasure, but his pleasure is undifferentiated; he cannot distinguish, for example, between aesthetic pleasure and the pleasures of learning or daydreaming. In adolescence we realize that there are different...