When I read a book, I put in all the imagination I can, so that it is almost like writing the book as well as reading it – or rather, it is like living it....

Never put off till tomorrow the book you can read today.

You can’t just skip the boring parts.””Of course I can skip the boring parts.””How do you know they’re boring if you don’t read them?””I can tell.””Then you can’t say you’ve read the whole play.””I think...

A confident woman wears a smile and has this air of comfortability and pleasantness about her.

God wants all man’s attention, thoughts and focus to be on Him.

Frederick Douglass taught that literacy is the path from slavery to freedom. There are many kinds of slavery and many kinds of freedom, but reading is still the path.

Why would a book in which hardly anything happened for most of the time eat at me so much? It was the weirdest thing

Most commanders wanted as many good sources of information as possible. MacArthur was focused on limiting and controlling his sources of intelligence.

Lost Mustache. Please do not feed. If found, contact Mouth,” and I left my phone number. Nobody’s called. Perhaps the neighborhood cat lady took it in and is petting it on her lap at this...

Sections in the bookstore- Books You Haven’t Read- Books You Needn’t Read- Books Made for Purposes Other Than Reading- Books Read Even Before You Open Them Since They Belong to the Category of Books Read...

I write because I have to write; but I also write because there’s somebody out there, hopefully, who will read it.

I have wandered many roads that I have never traveled; touched many things that my eyes have never seen. It is through stories that life is made, and through stories that life is saved.

He understood the way that you could sometimes fall right into them, as if each page was a hole into another world.

When I wake up, I’m like, ‘I gotta go to Whole Foods.’ I’m constantly reading cookbooks; I bring hardcover cookbooks with me on the plane and tag pages. I just have this crazy food obsession.

In the first place I spent most of my time at home, reading. I tried to stifle all that was continually seething within me by means of external impressions. And the only external means I...

Read regularly and wildey, choose your topics wisely

They were readers for whom literature was a drug, each complex plot line delivering a new high, suspending them above reality, allowing them a magical crossover…They had spoken often, with rueful honesty, of how the...

Reading and discovering fiction has taught me how to empathise, understand falling in love and all those complex relationships that people have to deal with.

Emma has been meaning to read more ever since she was twelve years old. I have seen a great many lists of her drawingup at various times of books that she meant to read regularly...

God, how I still love private readers. It’s what we all used to be.

It’s true that when you read YA you rarely have to read about middle-aged men having affairs. Personally I consider that a plus.

What better occupation, really, than to spend the evening at the fireside with a book, with the wind beating on the windows and the lamp burning bright…Haven’t you ever happened to come across in a...

In the real world, the tests are all open book.

Almost I feel the pulsebeat of the ages, Now swift, now slow, beneath my fingertips.The heartthrobs of the prophets and the sagesBeat through these bindings; and my quick hand slipsOld books from dusty shelves, in...

Read a different Africa. Love a vibrant Africa.

I have often reflected upon the new vistas that reading has opened to me. I knew right there in prison that reading had changed forever the course of my life. As I see it today,...

Timing is always off. Someone is always late, always lost, always looking back to the start of a reality that they didn’t want to begin with.

I know exactly what I would do with immortality: I would read every book in the library.

A good library will never be too neat, or too dusty, because somebody will always be in it, taking books off the shelves and staying up late reading them.

Shelves full of books are all around me. Opening the different volumes I take a look, and find the pages covered with writings in unknown scripts — tadpole traces, bird feet markings, twisted branches. And...

Learning and reading will enrich your life with wisdom for living.

I would like my personal reading map to resemble a map of the British Empire circa 1900.

We live to read.

Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you.

It sounds extraordinary but it’s a fact that balance sheets can make fascinating reading.

Reading a novel after reading semiotic theory was like jogging empty-handed after jogging with hand weights. What exquisite guilt she felt, wickedly enjoying narrative! Madeleine felt safe with a nineteenth century novel. There were going...

The truth is that every true admirer of the novels cherishes the happy thought that he alone – reading between the lines – has bcome the secret friend of their author.

Hey you, read a book. Now.

In the sort of screen dappled with different states of mind which my consciousness would simultaneously unfold while I read, and which ranged from the aspirations hidden deepest within me to the completely exterior vision...

Because of literature we can decipher, at least partially, the hieroglyphic that existence tends to be for the great majority of human beings.

A leitura nos dá a Liberdade de um felino

I propose that every person out of work be required to submit a book report before he or she gets his or her welfare check.

That’s what I do. Watch movies and read. Sometimes I even pretend to write, but I’m not fooling anyone. Oh, and I go to the mailbox.

READ, READ, KEEP READING. UNTIL YOU KICK THE BUCKET.

He wanted to run through the stacks, pick at the books, sample them one after the other, climb the stacks to their highest reaches and see what treasures were hidden there.

You have to remember that it is impossible to commit a crime while reading a book.

A word after a word after a word is power.

They must talk to each other directly, Ender, mind to mind. What one thinks, another can also think; what one remembers, another can also re-member. Why would they ever develop language? Why would they ever...

A fortress built long ago,Walls made timeless by historic glory.The small girl in the boat slows,To listen to its story.

Men of power have not time to read, yet men who do not read are not fit for power.