masculine” traits of learning. Famous romantic writers such as Lord Byron, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and William Hazlitt criticized the bluestockings. …and Hazlitt declared his ‘utter aversion to Bluestockingism … I do not care a fig...

I spent much of my childhood in northern Quebec, and often there was no radio, no television – there wasn’t a lot to entertain us. When it rained, I stayed inside reading, writing, drawing.

I took on a year of reading books for a reason. Because words are witness to life: they record what has happened, and they make it all real. Words create the stories that become history...

I love to read books. I love to read anything really, even the back of the cereal box.But there is nothing that will ignite your soul like reading God’s Word.

I wish I knew when I was going to die,’ ninety-six-year-old Dame Frances Anne often said, ‘I wish I knew.’ ‘Why, Dame?”Then I should know what to read next.

I love reading I know it’s very important and I respect anyone that is patient enough to do it.

I always read. You know how sharks have to keep swimming or they die? I’m like that. If I stop reading, I die.

A book is the cheapest ticket you will ever hold.

Never give up, Never surrender!!!!!If you think you can’t, then you must, if you must, then you can..Tony Robbins

Aku baca buku karena aku suka, bukan karena aku mengharap suatu penilaian dari orang-orang di sekitar aku. Bukan karena aku ingin dianggap hebat atau pintar atau berpendidikan atau beradab cuma karena udah baca sebuah karya...

I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it’s better than college. People should educate themselves — you can get a complete education for no money. At...

To care about words, to have a stake in what is written, to believe in the power of books – this overwhelms the rest, and beside it one’s life becomes very small.

Books whose topics I thoroughy depsise are accapteble because they often force the reader to think and to examine his own beliefs. In an age where most people are either blindly obedient or radical, exposing...

If you’re a writer, your first duty, a duty you owe to yourself and your readers, and to your writing itself, is to become wonderful. To become the best writer you can possibly be.

I am a part of everything that I have read.

A good book is the precious life-blood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life, and as such it must surely be a necessary commodity.

I cannot live without reading.

[Los alumnos de Almafitano aprendieron…]Que la principal enseñanza de la literatura era la valentía, una valentía rara, como un pozo de piedra en medio de un paisaje lacustre, una valentía semejante a un torbellino y...

I think the reason novels are regarded to have so much more ‘information’ than films is that they outsource the scenic design and cinematography to the reader… This, for me, is a powerful argument for...

You can look at someone’s ego and see the depth of their weaknesses

All I have learned, I learned from books.

Reading at meals is considered rude in polite society, but if you expect to succeed as a writer, rudeness should be the second-to-least of your concerns. The least of all should be polite society and...

So much of one’s life was spent reading; it made sense not to do it alone.

It’s more important to be read than paid.

All these are readers, and their gestures, their craft, the pleasure, the responsibility and the power they derive from reading, are common with mine. I am not alone.

I often feel sorry for people who don’t read good books; they are missing a chance to lead an extra life.

… that when you’re buying books, you’re optimistically thinking you’re buying the time to read them.(Paraphrase of Schopenhauer)

I wish I could read my books over for the first time to see what you guys see.

Who was it who said, “I hold the buying of more books than one can peradventure read, as nothing less than the soul’s reaching towards infinity; which is the only thing that raises us above...

I was always going to the bookcase for another sip of the divine specific.

As every reader knows in his or her heart, there is much more to truth than mere fact.

That’s my point: if you own thirty or more books, or you are reading any book at this moment, you may protest all you want, but you were born on the wrong continent.

Eräs tuttu mies kysyi joskus, luinko sen lopulta loppuun asti. Hän arveli, ettei itse voisi lukea, koska “kokemus olisi niin masentava”. Niin, luin kirjan ja menetin viikon yöunet. Mutta olen silti yhä tässä, voin hyvin....

The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader. I know people who read without hearing the sentence sounds and they were the fastest readers. Eye readers we call them. They get...

[B]riefing is not reading. In fact it is the antithesis of reading. Briefing is terse, factual and to the point. Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting. Briefing closes down a subject, reading opens it...

Learning became her. She loved the smell of the book from the shelves, the type on the pages, the sense that the world was an infinite but knowable place. Every fact she learned seemed to...

Reading teaches us the nuances of humanity. To find the beauty of what is moral and ethical in your own actions and discover the strange subtlety of what it is to question why you should...

Reading may be the last secretive behavior that is neither pathological or prosecutable. It is certainly the last refuge from the real-time epidemic. For the stream of a narrative overflows the banks of the real....

The book that simply demands to be read, for no good reason, is asking us to change our lives by putting aside what we usually think of as good reasons. It’s asking us to stop...

He had some taste for romance reading before he went to the university, where, we must confess, in justice to his college, he was cured of the love of reading in all its shapes; and...

You should write because you love the shape of stories and sentences and the creation of different words on a page. Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write.

I know that I am a small, weak man, but I have amassed a large library; I dream of dangerous places.

I love to read. My favorite thing.

Apa gunanya banyak baca bukuKalau mulut kau bungkam melulu

In reading you must pursue to become a creator.

I am a practical girl, and a life is only so long. It should be spent in as much peace and good eating and good reading as possible and no undue excitement. That is all...

Alcohol makes other people less tedious, and food less bland, and can help provide what the Greeks called entheos, or the slight buzz of inspiration when reading or writing. The only worthwhile miracle in the...

Usually, I set one foot in a library and I feel my own internal volume lower. A library is a physical equivalent of a sigh. It’s the silence, sure, but it’s also the certainty of...

Go ahead, and fear not. You will have a full library at your service.

When you sell a man a book you don’t sell him just 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue – you sell him a whole new life.