Bea says that the art of reading is slowly dying, that it’s an intimate ritual, that a book is a mirror that offers us only what we carry inside us, that when we read, we...

Peter Pan has to be the book of my childhood. Come to think of it, it’s the book of my adulthood too. It’s a book which, in the reading of it, takes me back to...

Like the roller coaster of life…novels aren’t fun without ups and downs and even an occasional loop.

Every book is a world.

(She) could have read for hours, except that recently she had discovered holes and crevices between the words which she immediately had to fill with her own ideas until she was fed up with patching...

Any book worth banning is a book worth reading.

It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were not natural wonders, coming up of themselves like grass. Yet regardless of where...

I’m really not responsible for what mental operation people have when they’re reading my books other than the ones which are created by literary effects.

Never did she find anything so difficult as to keep herself from losing her temper when she was suddenly disturbed while absorbed in a book.

You are either in a state of perfection or a state of learning. Reading is one of the best ways to learn about our lives and purpose!

A naive, excitable teenaged reader is a beautiful thing. Someone who’s never heard of Elizabeth Bennet or Jay Gatsby, until you tell him. And they all still believe in truth. That’s the fun of it.

God is never tired of bringing the sun out every morning, taking it in the evenings and bringing out the moon.

That’s it then. This is how it ends. I haven’t even read Proust.

We want the author to give us answers when all he can do is give us desires.

Reading is soul work!

The worst readers are those who behave like plundering troops: they take away a few things they can use, dirty and confound the remainder, and revile the whole.

If one wanted to depict the whole thing graphically, every episode, with its climax, would require a three-dimensional, or, rather, no model: every experience is unrepeatable. What makes lovemaking and reading resemble each other most...

Haiku does not express emotion from the inside out by displaying the mind of a character. Haiku builds the emotional thrust, makes the artistic statement from the outside in, from the physical world to the...

Every time I fall in love with a book, I just feel grateful and thrilled to have it in my life.

I have a realistic grasp of my own strengths and weaknesses. My mind is my weapon. My brother has his sword, King Robert has his warhammer, and I have my mind… and a mind needs...

She folds the pages of the books she reads when she wants to remember something important. Her favorite books are accordions, testaments to an endless search for meaning.

Take my books away, and I should be desperate!

I was downstairs, reading.”” Now?” I strained to see her face. She was smiling, it appeared.”Yes, now,” she said. “It’s nice, sometimes, to read in the middle of the night. The sky is so dark...

I remembered reading somewhere that if you smile at something, it automatically makes you happier.

Mine is to chew on the appropriate texts and make them delectable.

It is only a novel… or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its...

What really knocks me out is a book that, when you’re all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on...

A man can never have too many books. Neither can he have too many fountain pens, hats, fishing rods, waistcoats, tea caddies, paintings or whatever helps him to feel at home in his surroundings and...

I recognized it instantly. It was a made-up story, a fantasy, the tale of four kids who went through a magic wardrobe and found themselves in a strange new world. I’d read it more times...

Non leggete, come fanno i bambini, per divertirvi, o, come fanno gli ambiziosi per istruirvi. No, leggete per vivere.

The pleasure I found in reading books was disconcerting…I felt anxious about every new piece of information. I would latch onto one particular detail and start look for references and other versions of it in...

There is something magical about losing yourself in a world that doesn’t exist.

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On evenings, I spent the entire study period reading….From that time on, the world began to broaden around me, beyond any tangible limits. The world, as portrayed in those works destined for young people, was...

He who reads, shall find answers He seeks.

There wasn’t a place I could think of that was more magical than a building bursting with books and stories and words…

Life is education.Education is a lifetime knowledge.

If you have feelings about reading, you feel the rhythm of prose or of a poem like music. It awakens something in your soul and then of course you study, read, you grow up and...

I’m never going to complain about receiving free early copies of books, because clearly there’s nothing to complain about, but it does introduce a rogue element into one’s otherwise carefully plotted reading schedule. …Being a...

I am grateful to all my readers; you inspired me to keep writing.

explosive material capable of stirring up fresh life endlessly.

Novels arise out of the shortcomings of history.

A good book is like really loved item at a really good restaurant, every time you go there you order it to see if it tastes like you remember, only to find out it is...

Adventure,’ then, is what might otherwise be called hardship if it were attempted in a different spirit. Turning a difficult task or a perilous journey into an adventure is largely a matter of telling yourself...

Books have a complete disregard for your feelings. They don’t care if you are crying. They are going to continue making you cry.

As for me, I feel myself living and thinking in a room where everything is the creation and the language of lives profoundly different from mine, of a taste opposite to mine, where I find...

Reading good literature is an experience of pleasure…but it is also an experience of learning what and how we are, in our human integrity and our human imperfection, with our actions, our dreams, and our...

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

Entrei numa livraria. Pus-me a contar os livros que há para ler e os anos que terei de vida. Não chegam! Não duro nem para metade da livraria! Deve haver certamente outras maneiras de uma...

Each book holds an experience and an adventure.”[Letters of Note; Troy (MI, USA) Public Library, 1971]