How would it be after the last sentence? The last sentence he had always feared and from the middle of a book, he had always been tormented by the thought that there would inevitably be...

..reading a book doesn’t mean just turning the pages. It means thinking about it, identifying parts that you want to go back to, asking how to place it in a broader context, pursuing the ideas....

True fragrance speaks for itself. It does not require to be pointed out by the bearer.

Reading is everything. Reading makes me feel like I’ve accomplished something, learned something, become a better person. Reading makes me smarter. Reading gives me something to talk about later on. Reading is the unbelievably healthy...

I wanna say something that I want you to remember for the rest of your life, OK? I want you to listen closely. I’m giving you a key to life right now, this is the...

People do not read stupidities with impunity.

..holding a book but reading the empty spaces.

You should’ve thought of that before becoming a fireman.””Thought!” he said. “Was I given a choice? I was raised to think the best thing in the world is not to read. The best thing is...

Reading is learning: Secure Future and earnings

La lectura, asegura, ampliaría mi experiencia del mundo. Las ideas que se encuentran en los libros serios darían profundidad a mis pensamientos sobre cada decisión que tomo.

Sometimes, in the course of my hopeless quest, I would pick up and dip into one of the ordinary books that lay strewn around the castle. Whenever I did, it seemed so insipid and insubstantial...

You’d never know it from reading the rest of the Native writers, but Indians actually grew up with American pop culture.

I like reading. I just hate school.

I am charmed by the idea that there is an activity known as work and another as play, although even in grade school the distinction eluded me. I remember how full of hope I was...

There’s nothing as cozy as a piece of candy and a book.

The minority evolves whereas the majority just revolves

Aristotle says that the aim of education is to make the pupil like and dislike what he ought.

The most influential books are the ones we read when we are most malleable

That’s the problem with this never-ending centipede of lemmings, Beck. You know they’re all pussies, each and every one of ’em. They buy these books to get scared because their lives are too easy. How...

Good books are for consideration after, too.

Our society accepts the book as a given, but the act of reading — once considered useful and important, as well as potentially dangerous and subversive — is now condescendingly accepted as a pastime, a...

Reading…is a full-contact sport; we crash up against the wave of words with all of our intellectual, imaginative, and emotional resources.

I lived within the cover of books and those books were more real to me than any other thing in my life.

The nature of immortality is a mystery,’ he says, speaking so softly that we have to lean closer to hear.’ But everything I know of writing and reading tells me that this is true. I...

My perfect morning is spent drinking coffee, eating porridge and reading the paper at a local cafe.

Look, these need no reward. We have nothing to give them. They have loved reading.

is as rare an appearance . . . as a Comet or an Earthquake.

This particular book felt familiar, like an old friend. The characters drew me into their world, and I blocked out mine for the rest of the afternoon.

Every reading is partial, but that does not absolve us from the quest for meaning, which defines us as a species.

And the upside to being confined to home was that it gave me plenty of time to continue reading.

I can feel infinitely alive curled up on the sofa reading a book.

The book smelled dusty and old but also carried a sweet tang, a hint of something inviting. She opened to the first page and started to read, pronouncing the words in a reverent whisper.

There are few nicer things than sitting up in bed, drinking strong tea, and reading.

I pity the people who don’t like to read, because then they spend their whole lives stuck in this one world and dont get to discover any others.

Go to hell, I’m reading!

Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.

I learned to write by reading the kind of books I wished I’d written.

He began to read at haphazard. He entered upon each system with a little thrill of excitement, expecting to find in each some guide by which he could rule his conduct; he felt himself like...

I stress the expansion and elaboration of language. In simplifying it, reducing it, we reduce the power of our expression and our power to communicate. Standardization, the use of worn-out formulas, impedes communication because it...

improving” literature. You’ll wind up with a generation convinced that reading is uncool and worse, unpleasant.We need our children to get onto the reading ladder: anything that they enjoy reading will move them up, rung...

I think they assign things to students which are way over their heads, which destroy your love of reading, rather than leading you to it. I don’t understand that. Gosh.

I have all the books I could need, and what more could I need than books?

You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.

Hey, Geekoid!” yelled Duncan Dougal, “Why do you read so much? Don’t you know how to watch TV?

A library is a good place to go when you feel unhappy, for there, in a book, you may find encouragement and comfort. A library is a good place to go when you feel bewildered...

No two persons ever read the same book.

Books should go where they will be most appreciated, and not sit unread, gathering dust on a forgotten shelf, don’t you agree?

For me, reading was always the great escape without getting your fingers burnt.

An attentive reader will always learn more, and more quickly, from good authors than from life.

I’m a great reader that never has time to read.