We can do away with ignorance, if we take it upon ourselves to encourage each other to use our intelligence.

No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond.

All metropolises have one thing in common: they are made up of a crowd of lonely people

Personally, I refuse to drive a car – I won’t have anything to do with any kind of transportation in which I can’t read.

For me, reading begins at home.

That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.

I long ago abandoned myself to a blind lust for the written word. Literature is my sandbox. In it I play, build my forts and castles, spend glorious time.

Every reader has found charms by which to secure possession of a page that, by magic, becomes as if never read before, fresh and immaculate.

In reading a novel, any novel, we have to know perfectly well that the whole thing is nonsense, and then, while reading, believe every word of it. Finally, when we’re done with it, we may...

Reading is thinking with someone else’s head instead of ones own.

Border crossing’ is a recurrent theme in all aspects of my work — editing, writing, and painting. I’m interested in the various ways artists not only cross borders but also subvert them. In mythology, the...

Fiction can do more than entertain you; it can change you

What one means by integrity, in the case of the novelist, is the conviction that he gives one that this is the truth. . . . When one so exposes it [integrity] and sees it...

My daughter is seven, and some of the other second-grade parents complain that their children don’t read for pleasure. When I visit their homes, the children’s rooms are crammed with expensive books, but the parent’s...

I remember the hours I had spent in Father’s library, drugging myself with books so I could forget my doom for an hour..

I look around and see that many — not all, but many — problems we’ve got could be solved if our culture simply fostered the habit of reading. Reading books of science, philosophy, history. Reading...

And books — she swallows like dumplings.

Still, though reading absorbed her, what the Queen had not expected was the degree to which it drained her of enthusiasm for anything else.

I have no cause to love Mr. Norrell- far from it. But I know this about him: he is a magician first and everything else second- and Jonathan is the same. Books and magic are...

Why read? Because books are precious guides to our humanity—civilization’s backbone—that tenuous ridgeline that allows us to climb above the jungle and see what the horizon has to offer. Thus they represent the yearning to...

A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it or offer your own version in return.

Ich las damals unendlich viel und zwar gründlich. In wenigen Jahren schuf ich mir damit die Grundlagen eines Wissens, von denen ich auch heute noch zehre.

Books: open them. Your mind is calling for new horizons of knowledge and wonders.

When one opens a book, one should also open one’s mind.

Avaan kirjan.Luen ensimmäisen sivun kirjasta.Koska lukeminen sujuu aika hyvin, luen heti perään toisenkin rivin.Luen koko sivun.Luen koko kirjan.Sittenmakaan nuorisohetekalla ja itken, enkä ymmärrä miksi.En tiedä, itkenkö siksi, että kirja on loppunut kesken vai siksi, että...

This is a place where books are treasured – books that hold the sweetly magical smell of history; books that crackle when you open them and sigh when you close them; books that weigh heavy...

I roused myself from the book which I was dreaming over rather than reading, and left my chambers to meet the cool night air in the suburbs.

A great book is one, which really don’t finish when it finishes.

Every book contains a secret – even the writer doesn’t always know what it is.

For me the greatest joy is to be able to submerge myself for a few hours every day in a human time that otherwise would be alien to me. A lifetime is not enough.

You can’t enjoy art or books in a hurry.

Anyone can take an adventure even if it’s only in your own backyard. Let your imagination be your adventure and see where it takes you.

The greatest gift is the passion for reading.It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites,it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind.It is a moral illumination.

As soon as I got into the library I closed my eyes and took a deep breath. I got a whiff of the leather on all the old books, a smell that got real strong...

She would go off in the morning with the punt full of books, and spend long glorious days away in the forest lying on the green springy carpet of whortleberries, reading. She would most diligently...

Was I being groomed for some special mission? What possible purpose could an existence like mine serve? When I wasn’t drinking in crappy bars, I was home by myself reading: a life that was achingly...

it is nice that nobody writes as they talk and that the printed language is different from the spoken otherwise you could not lose yourself in books and of course you do you completely do.

Books” – Snell smiled – “are a kind of magic.

Depression can be due to a low endocrine function, nutritional deficiencies, blood sugar problems, food allergies, or systemic yeast infection. Depression can also result from medical illnesses such as stroke, heart attack, cancer, Parkinson’s disease,...

Ignorance must be prosecuted when arrested. The only way for its arrest is by information and the only way for prosecution is through reading and learning of new things.

Of course, you cannot just blurt out a quote whenever you feel like it. For a quote to have the desired effect, it must be properly introduced.

Words are directed to your personalities namely; – God, your hearers, devil and yourself.

You can change any status quo, stand out, walk by faith and not by sight and things will definitely go well with you.

With one day’s reading a man may have the key in his hands.

I intend to put up with nothing that I can put down.”[Letter to J. Beauchamp Jones, August 8, 1839]

He longed for the little cabin and the sun-kissed sea – for the cool interior of the well-built house, and for the never-ending wonders of the many books.

You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino’s new novel, If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller. Relax. Concentrate. Dispel every other thought. …Tell the others right away, “No, I don’t want to watch TV!…...

Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.

Here was the South Side–a million in captivity–stretching from this doorstep as far as the eye could see. And they didn’t even read; depressed populations don’t have the time or energy to spare. The affluent...

Last night I read two books back to back. Tonight I’ll probably read both of those books’ front covers.