I was first a reader and without readers what would be the point in writing. For those of you who love a good story, thank you for being willing to read what we writerly folk...

Keine Frage, die Kunst des Lesens war etwas, um das sie ihn beneidete. Was musste das für ein Gefühl sein, in fremde Welten einzutauchen, nur mit den Augen und durch das Zusammensetzen einiger kryptischer Zeichen?...

Anyone who reads, even one from the remote Southwest at the far end of an attenuated tradition, is to some extent a citizen of the world, and I had been a hungry reader all my...

She reads a lot of books. Good things, books.

Compulsive reading relieves the anxiety that comes from tramping through the forest of meditation in search of clearings.

Write all the time. I believe in writing every day, at least a thousand words a day. We have a strange idea about writing: that it can be done, and done well, without a great...

There is creative reading as well as creative writing.

There are four kinds of readers. The first is like the hourglass; and their reading being as the sand, it runs in and runs out, and leaves not a vestige behind. A second is like...

Few pleasures, for the true reader, rival the pleasure of browsing unhurriedly among books: old books, new books, library books, other people’s books, one’s own books – it does not matter whose or where. Simply...

Reading is more important than writing.

A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.

I went on writing reviews for the newspaper, and critical articles crying out for a different approach to culture, as even the most inattentive reader could hardly fail to notice if he scratched the surface...

When I stepped into the brown-tiled entryway of the Kentwood Public Library, the sunlight flowing down on me from the high windows, I felt a sense of importance. It gratified me to be in a...

Diana felt she was beginning to understand why, in all those novels she read, the headiest loves were the loves that couldn’t be.

Reading Plato should be easy; understanding Plato can be difficult.

If you crave for Knowledge, the banquet of Knowledge grows and groans on the board until the finer appetite sickens. If, still putting all your trust in Knowledge, you try to dodge the difficulty by...

All that mankind has done, thought, gained, or been; it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.

Just as one spoils the stomach by overfeeding and thereby impairs the whole body, so can one overload and choke the mind by giving it too much nourishment. For the more one reads the fewer...

What’s cheaper than a gallon of gas? An ebook. Save a dollar, stay home and read!

the code of a world he’d never been invited to join.

I’m the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.

Of all the unexpected things in contemporary literature, this is among the oddest: that kids have an inordinate appetite for very long, very tricky, very strange books about places that don’t exist.

I’m certain indeed, I think there’s no doubt of it – that reading does young people much harm. It puts things into their heads that never would have been there but for books. I declare,...

Libraries will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no libraries.

No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.

…to her all books were the same and, as with her subjects, she felt a duty to approach them without prejudice…Lauren Bacall, Winifred Holtby, Sylvia Plath – who were they? Only be reading could she...

Knowing I lov’d my books, he furnish’d me From mine own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom.

Reading is my escape when reality sucks

Read what gives you delight—at least most of the time—and do so without shame. And even if you are that rare sort of person who is delighted chiefl y by what some people call Great...

Back then I could not understand one word of what I read.Reading did, however, give me heart. Even if you cannot understand what you are reading you can get something from books.

”I always read everything when I was a kid-and I do mean everything, from Nancy Drew to Dickens to my dad’s John D. MacDonald-but then I went to regular school and the English teachers started...

A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read.

items that have become part of me, foliage that has grown to conceal the bare stem of my real personality, what I was like before I ever saw these books, or any book at all,...

Książki (…) to jedyny ratunek, żeby człowiek nie zapomniał, że jest człowiekiem. (…) Książki to także świat, i to świat, który człowiek sobie wybiera, a nie na który przychodzi.

If a book is worth reading, it will most probably be worth reading twice.

When I read a daring book or listen to rebellious music, I feel like I’ve found what freedom really means.

Give yourself to reading.’… You need to read. Renounce as much as you will all light literature, but study as much as possible sound theological works,especially the Puritanic writers, and expositions of the Bible.

If time heals all wounds, and a book can hold a person’s entire life, then you can speed up the process with a pulp time warp.

Each book has a reader, and each reader has a book.

That’s what this country needs — more books!

Imagine a very long time passing – and I find my way out, following someone who already knows how to leave Hell. And God says to me on Earth for the first time, “Xas!” in...

A library is a place where you can lose your innocence without losing your virginity.

I think it’s the books that you read when you’re young that live with you forever.

She must have been very anxious about a first boy friend to fall in love with a Colgate boy

Take no heed of her…. She reads a lot of books.

Books can be dangerous. The best ones should be labeled “This could change your life.

No book is really worth reading, which does not either impart valuable knowledge; or set before us some ideal of beauty, strength, or nobility of character. There are enough great books to occupy us during...

Reading is a beautiful prayer for knowledge.

Create your world with God’s Word in your mouth just say it and it will be accomplished!

Ladies, get confident about yourselves, build up your self-worth and esteem, love yourself and be proud of your achievements and your man will adore you for life.