I do not read a book; I hold a conversation with the author.

Do you ever hide books you’ve read over and over again because you’re so sick of them?”Oh, definitely. When they ask for them, I say the book fairy came to get it. One time they...

This is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you’re not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.

Isn’t it odd how much fatter a book gets when you’ve read it several times?” Mo had said…”As if something were left between the pages every time you read it. Feelings, thoughts, sounds, smells…and then,...

I am the man who comes and goes between the bar and the telephone booth. Or, rather:that man is called ‘I’ and you know nothing else about him, just as this station is called only...

The creator of Sir John Falstaff, of Hamlet, and of Rosalind also makes me wish I could be more myself. But that, as I argue throughout this book, is why we should read, and why...

This book does not exist. And even if it did, it wouldn’t be worth buying or reading.

Pornography was not meant to be looked at. Pornography was meant to be read—on Braille-embossed condoms.

A precious, mouldering pleasure ‘t isTo meet an antique bookIn just the dress his century wore;A privilege, I think,His venerable hand to take,And warming in our own,A passage back, or two, to makeTo times when...

Just as hunters will mount the heads of the kills, white people need to let people know that they have made their way to hundreds or even thousands of books. After all, what’s the point...

People wonder why the novel is the most popular form of literature; people wonder why it is read more than books of science or books of metaphysics. The reason is very simple; it is merely...

The great opposition to reading is what I allow to fill my time instead of reading. To say we have no time to read is not really true; we simply have chosen to use our...

The notions of a young man of one or two and twenty,’ said he, ‘as to what is necessary in manners to make him quite the thing, are more absurd, I believe, than those of...

Books are love letters (or apologies) passed between us, adding a layer of conversation beyond our spoken words.

I love vast libraries; yet there is a doubt,If one be better with them or without,Unless he use them wisely, and, indeed,Knows the high art of what and how to read.

For six months, then, Emma, at fifteen years of age, made her hands dirty with books from old lending libraries.

Peeing is like a good book in that it is very, very hard to stop once you start.

Ultimately what I like about reading together is that we all make it happen together. Of course even amid shared experience we’re still alone… each reading of each book is unique. But what a comfort...

I think I learned a lot from reading in general – even from reading badly written books.

Learning to Read”: I told the Englishman that my alma mater was books.

I don’t read such boring things. Life is too short.

The world of books captured my heart.

A letter may be coded, and a word may be coded. A theatrical performance may be coded, and a sonnet may be coded, and there are times when it seems the entire world is in...

No skill is more crucial to the future of a child than literacy.

Es, pues, de saber que este sobredicho hidalgo, los ratos que estaba ocioso, que eran los más del año, se daba a leer.

We are never allowed to forget that some books are badly written; we should remember that sometimes they’re badly read, too.

Reading is like skiing. When done well, when done by an expert, both reading and skiing are graceful, harmonious, activities. When done by a beginner, both are awkward, frustrating, and slow. Learning to ski is...

The more you read,the eager you read many more.

As adults we choose our own reading material. Depending on our moods and needs we might read the newspaper, a blockbuster novel, an academic article, a women’s magazine, a comic, a children’s book, or the...

To receive many blessings, read to your children from the womb to the tomb.

Each of us promenades his thought, like a monkey on a leash. When you read, you always have to such monkeys: your own and one belonging to someone else. Or, even worse, a monkey and...

I only read biographies, metaphysics and psychology. I can dream up my own fiction.

Dinner-parties bore us because our imagination is absent, and reading interests us because it is keeping us company.

Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written; I’d rather boast about the ones I’ve read.

It is not in the gene of an Intellectually blinded person to experience the paradise in the writer’s imagination.

Edmund doesn’t solve any of his grievances or personality disorders by going through the wardrobe. If anything, they’re exacerbated and brought to a crisis by his experiences in Narnia. When you go to Narnia, your...

Being well-read is not sufficient, and it isn’t the highest virtue to which we can strive, but it is both necessary and practical. We are, after all, people of the Great Book; no Christian leader...

Censoring books that deal with difficult, adolescent issues does not protect anybody. Quite the opposite. It leaves kids in the darkness and makes them vulnerable. Censorship is the child of fear and the father of...

“” ― Neil Gaiman

When I see great boxers, it’s like reading a wonderful poem.

In all well-written books, there is much that is good which is not dazzling; and these shallow critics should be taught, that it is for the embellishment of the more tame and uninteresting parts of...

In a country where people are not reading and thinking much, the sun is already set!

It is really hard to be lonely very long in a world of words. Even if you don’t have friends somewhere, you still have language, and it will find you and wrap its little syllables...

There is really only one way to learn good writing: good reading and extensive writing and revising.

Le livre est un morceau de silence dans les mains du lecteur. Celui qui écrit se tait. Celui qui lit ne rompt pas le silence.

It is said that you can’t write without a reader. The opposite holds true as well; you can’t read without a writer. But if as a single, creative person you are one in the same,...

Their words also make it a lot easier for people to justify that shift — to convince themselves that surfing the Web is a suitable, even superior, substitute for deep reading and other forms of...

I love when I finish reading a chapter that I wrote and my cheeks hurt from smiling and all I can utter is, ‘Wow.’

When you have those moments just think of me, call or text me when you feel weak and I will always be there for you. Nothing about this will be easy, life is hard, we...

The odd thing about people who had many books was how they always wanted more.