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!

The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers. I could regard them in no other light than a band of successful robbers, who had left their homes, and...

Stories, whether they’re good or bad, are expressions of interactions within society. Some may be seen as ‘boring’, but in their own right, they are still stories to explored. People throughout life have more exciting...

One sheds ones sickness in books- repeats and presents again ones emotions, to be master of them.

Why do I read?I just can’t help myself.I read to learn and to grow, to laugh and to be motivated.I read to understand things I’ve never been exposed to.I read when I’m crabby, when I’ve...

Reading is solitude.

Perhaps these pages are more particularly addressed to poor students. As for the rest of my readers, they will accept such portions as apply to them. I trust that none will stretch the seams in...

Meredith immersed herself in the novels. For some reason, fiction hit on the meaning of life so much more concisely than real life itself did.

Reading is entering into the consciousness of another human being.

Sometimes you just need a book near you and you can’t explain why.

When you buy a jacket, it’s important the pockets are big enough for a paperback!

All morning I struggled with the sensation of stray wisps of one world seeping through the cracks of another. Do you know the feeling when you start reading a new book before the membrane of...

Please bury me in the library With a dozen long-stemmed proses

Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers.

Her grandfather’s books […] opened before Ada, a world whose colours were so dazzling that reality paled in comparison and faded away. Boris Godunov, Satan, Athalia, King Lear: they all spoke words charged with meaning;...

For twenty years I strove to free myself from what I retained of my education; I indulged my curiosity by reading books less to learn than to efface from my memory the ideas that had...

Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.

History is not the story of heroes entirely. It is often the story of cruelty and injustice and shortsightedness. There are monsters, there is evil, there is betrayal. That’s why people should read Shakespeare and...

But the not-very-highbrow truth of the matter was that the reading was how I got my ya-yas out.For the sake of my bookish reputation I upgraded to Tolstoy and Steinbeck before I understood them, but...

Reading is a collaboration between the writer and reader. Both parties must keep that in mind when dealing with a work of fiction.”{Guy Gavriel Kay}

We only pass this way once..unless our significant other is reading the map..

For some, perhaps for many, books are spare time. For me, the rest of life is spare time: I wake and sleep language. It has always been so.

Responding to a moderator at the Sydney Writers Festival in 2008 (video), about the Spanish words in his book:When all of us are communicating and talking when we’re out in the world, we’ll be lucky...

Want to inspire your kids to read more? Try giving them kids some money to spend just on a book. Take them to a bookstore and let them browse and pick out one book that...

Books can’t hurt you, if you don’t read them.

I’m so glad I have my own copy. I can read them again and again. I can read them again and again on trains, all my life, and every time I do I’ll remember today...

There are two kinds of books in the world–the boring kind they make you read in school and the interesting kind that they won’t let you read in school because then they would have to...

Do you like reading? It’s the best thing that can happen to you in life. Writing has other implications.

Thank you for sending me a copy of your book – I’ll waste no time reading it.

Reading good books ruins you for enjoying bad books.

Childhood reading is so important.

I just loved making words into stories by the sound of my voice.

Every writer I know, when asked how to become a writer, responds with one word:Read.

Just because it’s fiction doesn’t mean it’s any less true.