Let this little book be thy friend, if, owing to fortune or through thine own fault, thou canst not find a dearer companion.

He was the boy with the book. Always and forever.

For (Levi) Grossman, no books feel more like home than C. S. Lewis’s Chronicles of Narnia, which provide the template for what he likes to read—and how he wants to write.

Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no young readers and writers, there will shortly be no older ones. Literacy will be dead, and democracy – which...

Wer niemals ganze Nachmittage lang mit glühenden Ohren und verstrubbeltem Haar über einem Buch saß und las und las und die Welt um sich her vergaß, nicht mehr merkte, daß er hungrig wurde oder fror...

Books make the best ersatz friendships.

What are we after when we open one of those books? What is it that makes a classic a classic? … in old-fashioned terms, the answer is that it wll elevate your spirit. And that’s...

To put an end to the spirit of inquiry that has characterized the West it is not necessary to burn the books. All we have to do is to leave them unread for a few...

[…] marginile unei cărţi nu sunt niciodată clar şi riguros trasate: dincolo de titlu, de primele r nduri şi de punctul final, mai presus de configuraţia sa internă şi de forma care îi conferă autonomie,...

…what I enjoy in a narrative is not directly its content or even its structure, but rather the abrasions I impose upon the fine surface: I read on, I skip, I look up, I dip...

You know how it is when you’re reading a book and falling asleep, you’re reading, reading… and all of a sudden you notice your eyes are closed? I’m like that all the time.

Don’t let reading make you arrogant. It can happen-believe me. Maybe you’ve even met a person or two like this, someone who thinks that being an English literature major or particularly well read puts them...

Generally speaking, books don’t cause much harm. Except when you read them, that is. Then they cause all kinds of problems.

The House Was Quiet and the World Was CalmThe house was quiet and the world was calm. The reader became the book; and summer night Was like the conscious being of the book. The house...

Reading your own material aloud forces you to listen.

I can’t blame most people if they don’t read a lot. Because they have their own preferences. If they find an article long, they won’t even finish. So as to say, I am glad I...

Reading is the royal road to intellectual eminence…Truly good books are more than mines to those who can understand them. They are the breathings of the great souls of past times. Genius is not embalmed...

What is reading but silent conversation.

reading”.

worksheets – the archenemy of abundant, purposeful reading (and discussion and writing).

The best way to get to know them is to wander right into the middle and get lost.

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.