To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

Wear the old coat and buy the new book.

Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man.

To read too many books is harmful.

A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. A man who never reads lives only one.

No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self chosen ignorance.

Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.

What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.

There is a wonder in reading Braille that the sighted will never know: to touch words and have them touch you back.

Some books leave us free and some books make us free.

Readers are plentiful: thinkers are rare.

A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.

Readers are not sheep, and not every pen tempts them.

The world belongs to those who read.

Never judge a book by its movie.

Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.

Reading is like travel allowing you to exit your own life for a bit and to come back with a renewed even inspired perspective.

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

Im wondering what to read next. Matilda said. Ive finished all the childrens books.

What is reading, but silent conversation.

Reading is a staple of life like bread or water. Or chocolate.

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.

A short story is a different thing all together a short story is like a kiss in the dark from a stranger.

In the words of Agatha Swanburne founder of Swanburne Academy Every book is judged by its cover until it is read.

Most of what makes a book good is that we are reading it at the right moment for us.

The only end of writing is to enable readers better to enjoy life or better to endure it.

The book salesman should be honored because he brings to our attention, as a rule, the very books we need most and neglect most.

As Agatha Swanburne once said To be kept waiting is unfortunate but to be kept waiting with nothing interesting to read is a tragedy of Greek proportions.

No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader.

Read every day something no one else is reading. Think something no one else is thinking. It is bad for the mind to be always a part of unanimity.

A book that is shut is but a block.

The multitude of books is a great evil. There is no limit to this fever for writing.

I read part of it all the way through.

Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought.

Why pay a dollar for a bookmark? Why not use the dollar for a bookmark?

Reading is the sole means by which we slip involuntarily often helplessly into anothers skin anothers voice anothers soul.

To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.

Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.

Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.

O, let my books be then the eloquence and dumb presages of my speaking breast.

There is creative reading as well as creative writing.

I am eternally grateful for my knack of finding in great books some of them very funny books reason enough to feel honored to be alive no matter what else might be going on.

My early and invincible love of reading I would not exchange for all the riches of India.

I love the smell of book ink in the morning.

What I like most about reading is I can read in minutes what it took the author hours to write. What I like most about writing is readers can read in minutes what it took me seconds to write.

Books should go where they will be most appreciated and not sit unread gathering dust on a forgotten shelf dont you agree

Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider.

In science read the newest works, in literature read the oldest.

This week Ive been reading a lot and doing little work. Thats the way things ought to be. Thats surely the road to success.

God be thanked for books; they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages.

The more that you read the more things you will know. The more that you learn the more places youll go.

There are mystically in our faces certain characters which carry in them the motto of our souls, wherein he that cannot read A, B, C may read our natures.

It is a good rule after reading a new book never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between.

The possession of a book becomes a substitute for reading it.

Books are fatal: they are the curse of the human race. Nine tenths of existing books are nonsense, and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense. The greatest misfortune that ever befell man was the invention of printing.

The summer passed quietly. I busied myself as best I could reading a good deal.

What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.

A good book is the precious life blood of the master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose for a life beyond.

if a book isnt selfexplanatory then it isnt worth reading.

A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.

But editors are still the worlds readers. And thus the eyes of the world.

One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.

I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little further down our particular path than we have gone ourselves.

The mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me, but that of books most of all.

Books are a uniquely portable magic.

What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it.

No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.

The trick is to teach yourself to read in small sips as well as long swallows.

I believe that today more than ever a book should be sought after even if it has only one great page in it: we must search for fragments, splinters, toenails, anything that has ore in it, anything that is capable of resuscitating the body and soul.

I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.

To buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them.

I read a book one day and my whole life was changed.

Just because its fiction doesnt mean its any less true.

Reading is very creative its not just a passive thing. I write a story it goes out into the world somebody reads it and by reading it completes it.

Ler acumular conhecimento. Mas no apenas isso. Ler nos oferece todo dia o que a religio nos promete para um futuro pstumo e improvvel a possibilidade de vivermos mais do que nosso tempo de vida nos permite fazlo.

The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts.

I would sooner read a timetable or a catalog than nothing at all.

Whats said in silence is best viewed in darkness. I learned that while reading a bowl of Alphabet Soup.

The tools I need for my work are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whiskey.

There is no such thing as a moral book or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written. That is all.

Book love... is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures.

Reading is dreaming with open eyes

To be a devout reader was to be an acolyte of solace.

A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.

If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.

To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations such is pleasure beyond compare.

Ive learned to let my characters speak and act the way they want to Ive tried to interfere but they just get angry at me and throw big rocks.

The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected.

Be as careful of the books you read, as of the company you keep; for your habits and character will be as much influenced by the former as by the latter.

I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.

The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story.

It is well to read everything of something, and something of everything.

There are people who read too much: bibliobibuli. I know some who are constantly drunk on books, as other men are drunk on whiskey or religion. They wander through this most diverting and stimulating of worlds in a haze, seeing nothing and hearing nothing.

A book reads the better which is our own and has been so long known to us that we know the topography of its blots and dogs ears and can trace the dirt in it to having read it at tea with buttered muffins.

Dont join the book burners. Dont think youre going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Dont be afraid to go in your library and read every book...

Books, I found, had the power to make time stand still, retreat or fly into the future.

The most foolish kind of a book is a kind of leaky boat on the sea of wisdom; some of the wisdom will get in anyhow.

I cannot remember the books Ive read any more than the meals I have eaten even so they have made me.

Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.

Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate love for reading.

Reading is not optional.

He ate and drank the precious Words, his Spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, nor that his frame was Dust.

Borrowers of books those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes.

Sister Ignatius taught me in Sunday School that in the beginning there was light but to me it was always an incomplete sentence which God should have known to ammend in the beginning God created light...to read by.

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

Books like friends, should be few and well chosen.- Joineriana

If you read one book a week starting at the age of 5 and live to be 80 you will have read a grand total of 3900 books a little over onetenth of 1 percent of the books currently in print.

There were no books in the Afterwards which the people thought was some serious bullshit.

Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.

She sewed as she read. For the Vicar considered that sewing was an occupation and that reading was not. He was silent as long as his daughter sewed and when she read he talked.

The reading of all good books is indeed like a conversation with the noblest men of past centuries who were the authors of them, nay a carefully studied conversation, in which they reveal to us none but the best of their thoughts.

There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing.

His reading suggested a man swimming in the sea among the wreckage of his ship and trying to save his life by greedily clutching first at one spar and then at another.

After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.

What is the most precious, the most exciting smell awaiting you in the house when you return to it after a dozen years or so? The smell of roses, you think? No, moldering books.

I love to read. Most kids dont but Im different.

What is important is not to be able to read rapidly, but to be able to decide what not to read.

A childrens story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good childrens story in the slightest.

We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four or five hundred pages.

We read to know that we are not alone.

The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library, The medicines of the soul.

You will be the same person in five as you are today except for the people you meet and the books you read.

“Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”

Take a good book to bed with you books do not snore.

In the case of good books, the point is not how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

A book is the only immortality.

any book in the world if there was only one way to read and understand it what would be the point of reading that book

There are too many books in the world to read in a single lifetime you have to draw the line somewhere.

A book worth reading is worth buying.

A good [short story] would take me out of myself and then stuff me back in, outsized, now, and uneasy with the fit.

I think of my pile of old paperbacks their pages gone wobbly like theyd once belonged to the sea.

The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine.

That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.

The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.

Very young children eat their books, literally devouring their contents. This is one reason for the scarcity of first editions of Alice in Wonderland and other favorites of the nursery.

Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind.

Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

People are much more willing to lend you books than bookcases.

Reading without purpose is sauntering not exercise.

For me to see is to read. It has always been that way.

Books worth reading once are worth reading twice; and what is most important of all, the masterpieces of literature are worth reading a thousand times.

One man is as good as another until he has written a book.

Choose an author as you choose a friend.

Then I though of reading the nice and subtle happiness of reading ... this joy not dulled by age, this polite and unpunishable vice, this selfish, serene, lifelong intoxication.

Yes the stories are dangerous she was right. A book is a magic carpet that flies you off elsewhere. A book is a door. You open it. You step through. Do you come back

Hypocrite reader my fellow my brother!

Man ceased to be an ape, vanquished the ape, on the day the first book was written.

Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.

Read much, but not many books.

Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world.

Be sure that you go to the author to get at his meaning, not to find yours.

Read the best books first or else you may not have a chance to read them at all.

The first time I read an excellent work, it is to me just as if I gained a new friend; and when I read over a book I have perused before, it resembles the meeting of an old one.

I think reading is a gift. It was a gift that was given to me as a child by many people and now as an adult and a writer Im trying to give a little of it back to others. Its one of the greatest pleasures I know.

Read in order to live.

There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates loot on Treasure Island and best of all, you can enjoy these riches every day of your life.

A great book of literature should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading it.

A good book is an event in my life.

Thats my point if you own thirty or more books or you are reading any book at this moment you may protest all you want but you were born on the wrong continent.

Thats my point if you own thirty or more books or you are reading any book at this moment you may protest all you want but you were born on the wrong continent.

I wanted to read immediately. The only fear was that of books coming to an end.

Books are like truth serum if you dont read you cant figure out whats real.

There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking.

How are we to spend our lives anyway That is the real question. We read to seek the answer and the search itselfthe task of a lifetimebecomes the answer.

I guess there are never enough books.

When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me.

The peace of God is with them whose mind and soul are in harmony who are free from desire and wrath who know their own soul.

A library is thought in cold storage.

A successful book cannot afford to be more than ten percent new.

This book is not to be tossed lightly aside, but to be hurled with great force.

You can either read something many times in order to be assured that you got it all, or else you can define your purpose and use techniques which will assure that you have met it and gotten what you need.

I am a part of everything that I have read.

Authors have established it as a kind of rule, that a man ought to be dull sometimes; as the most severe reader makes allowances for many rests and nodding places in a voluminous writer.

Once we have learned to read, meaning of words can somehow register without consciousness.

Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers.

We tell ourselves stories in order to live.

Reading a novel War and Peace for example is no Catnap. Because a novel is so long reading one is like being married forever to somebody nobody knows or cares about.

In a real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read. It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.

A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images.

Woe be to him that reads but one book.

Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a certain potency of life in them, to be as active as the soul whose progeny they are; they preserve, as in a vial, the purest efficacy and extraction of the living intellect that bred them.

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

Reading. Reading was the stable backdrop against which my life was played.

Most books today seemed to have been written overnight from books read the day before.

Wo nehm ich nur all die Zeit her so viel nicht zu lesen

If youre a writer your first duty a duty you owe to yourself and your readers and to your writing itself is to become wonderful. To become the best writer you can possibly be.

I owe everything I am and everything I will ever be to books.

When you reread a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than there was before.

When I was in my twenties and broke Id buy books before food. A meal will sustain you for a few hours a good book will sustain you for life.

It is both relaxing and invigorating to occasionally set aside the worries of life seek the company of a friendly book...from the reading of good books there comes a richness of life that can be obtained in no other way.

...I tell myself it does not matter what one readsfavorite authors particular themesas long as we read something. It is not even important to own the books.

I love books by the way way more than movies. Movies tell you what to think. A good book lets you choose a few thoughts for yourself.

The good of a book lies in its being read. A book is made up of signs that speak of other signs, which in their turn speak of things. Without an eye to read them, a book contains signs that produce no concepts; therefore it is dumb.

You will, I am sure, agree with me that... if page 534 only finds us in the second chapter, the length of the first one must have been really intolerable.

There is no robber worse than a bad book.

The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life and one is as good as the other.

The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes one forgets which it is.

A man ought to read just as his inclination leads him; for what he reads as a task will do him little good.

Baba Yaga ... What are his powers ,Mirror on the wall He reads

An ordinary man can surround himself with two thousand books and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is possible to be happy.

The love between a writer and a reader is never celebrated.

Hikayatin mo lahat ng kakilala mo na magkaroon ng kahit isa man lang paboritong libro sa buhay nila. Dahil wala nang mas kawawa pa sa mga taong literado pero hindi nagbabasa.

As writers become more numerous, it is natural for readers to become more indolent; whence must necessarily arise a desire of attaining knowledge with the greatest possible ease.

We become the books we read.

I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget.

Reading is thinking with someone elses head instead of ones own.

If the riches of the Indies, or the crowns of all the kingdom of Europe, were laid at my feet in exchange for my love of reading, I would spurn them all.

She reads a lot of books. Good things books.

The words of my book nothing, the drift of it everything.

A wicked book cannot repent.

A book may be compared to your neighbor: if it be good, it cannot last too long; if bad, you cannot get rid of it too early.

When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books You will be reading meanings.

The reading or non reading a book will never keep down a single petticoat.

I have read your book and much like it.

When the book comes out it may hurt you but in order for me to do it, it had to hurt me first. I can only tell you about yourself as much as I can face about myself.

My books kept me from the ring, the dog,pit, the tavern, and the saloon.

Every man is a volume if you know how to read him.

Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.

Do you like reading Its the best thing that can happen to you in life. Writing has other implications.

He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men.

Its a rare book that wins the battle against drooping eyelids.

Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.

Love so sprang at her she honestly thought no one had ever looked into it. Where was it in literature Someone would have written something. She must not have recognized it. Time to read everything again.

The more sins you confess, the more books you will sell.

Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time.

Live always in the best company when you read.

He started to look at me in a manner I recognized it was the way I looked at a new book one I had never read before one that surprised me with all it had to say.

We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.

I hope and hoping feeds my pain I weep and weeping feeds my failing heartI laugh but the laughter does not pass withinI burn but the burning makes no mark outside

The best way to become a successful writer is to read good writing, remember it, and then forget where you remember it from.

Six books my mother didnt want books falling into my hands. It never occurred to her that I fell into the books that I put myself inside them for safe keeping.

Reading maketh a full man; and writing an axact man. And, therefore, if a man write little, he need have a present wit; and if he read little, he need have much cunning to seem to know which he does not.

A novel must be exceptionally good to live as long as the average cat.

If a book comes from the heart it will contrive to reach other hearts. All art and author craft are of small account to that.

The flood of print has turned reading into a process of gulping rather than savoring

No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.

Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ceased to give pleasure.

People always see me writing and ask me if they can read my writing. The answer is yes after I publish it and they pay for it.

He that loves a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counselor, a cheerful companion, an effectual comforter. By study, by reading, by thinking, one may innocently divert and pleasantly entertain himself, as in all weathers, as in all fortunes.

You can read until youre blue in the face but Id recommend writing until youre red in the face. And ass.

You can be too rich and too thin but you can never be too well read or too curious about the world.

Reading is going toward something that is about to be and no one yet knows what it will be.

My arms are killing me. I didnt know words could be so heavy.

It wasnt until I started reading and found books they wouldnt let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else.

You will find most books worth reading are worth reading twice.

Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in ones hand.

No writer is a quiet reader for their reading will speak of their writing.

Begin to read a book that will help you move toward your dream.

I wish I could write a beautiful book to break those hearts that are soon to cease to exist: a book of faith and small neat worlds and of people who live by the philosophies of popular songs.

Whats cheaper than a gallon of gas An ebook. Save a dollar stay home and read

A book is like a pump. It gives nothing unless first you give to it. You prime a pump with your own water you work the handle with your own strength. You do this because you expect to get back more than you give.

No one can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure.

To read even in the halfdark is also to call the lost forward.

A vacuum of ideas affects people differently than a vacuum of air, otherwise readers of books would be constantly collapsing.

A vacuum of ideas affects people differently than a vacuum of air, otherwise readers of books would be constantly collapsing.

Its not that I dont like people. Its just that when Im in the company of others even my nearest and dearest there always comes a moment when Id rather be reading a book.

A conventional good read is usually a bad read, a relaxing bath in what we know already. A true good read is surely an act of innovative creation in which we, the readers, become conspirators.

One may as well be asleep as to read for anything but to improve his mind and morals, and regulate his conduct.

The newest books are those that never grow old.

The most valuable thing in my wallet is my library card.

Knowledge is like a light that illuminates people; so, keep reading, keep learning.

As always one of her books was next to her.

Lire un bon livre a redonne envie de vivre a vous donne envie de partir A la recherche du temps perdu.

The man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and of elevated opinions.

I am reading six books at once the only way of reading since as you will agree one book is only a single unaccompanied note and to get the full sound one needs ten others at the same time.

Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes.

Beware of the person of one book.

Boredom is why God invented books.

Books, not which afford us a cowering enjoyment, but in which each thought is of unusual daring; such as an idle man cannot read, and a timid one would not be entertained by, which even make us dangerous to existing institution such call I good books.

A good book is the best of friends, the same today and for ever.

Books I found had the power to make timestand still retreat or fly into the future.

I read in selfdefense.

If you dont have time to read you dont have the time or the tools to write. Simple as that.

Theres no better way to inform and expand you mind on a regular basis than to get into the habit of reading good literature.

Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.

Apa gunanya banyak baca bukuKalau mulut kau bungkam melulu

Get books sit yourself down anywhere and go to reading them yourself.

Reading good books ruins you for enjoying bad books.

I go to books and to nature as the bee goes to a flower for a nectar that I can make into my own honey.

There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world.

What a sense of security in an old book which time has criticized for us.

Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in you cant expect an angel to look out.

Thy books should, like thy friends, not many be, yet such wherein men may thy judgment see.

A novel points out that the world consists entirely of exceptions.

It is books that teach us to refine our pleasures when young, and to recall them with satisfaction when we are old.

The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just.

I always read. You know how sharks have to keep swimming or they die Im like that. If I stop reading I die.

I now remembered that Mrs. Todd had told me one day that Captain Littlepage had overset his mind with too much reading.

My advice is to write during commercial breaks and read while your favorite TV show is on mute.

The days werent long enough for the reading she wanted to do.

When Im really into a novel Im seeing the world differently during that time not just for the hour or so in the day when I get to read. Im actually walking around in a haze spellbound by the book and looking at everything through a different prism.

I have no particular plan in life and thats something I rather like. Most things that people do seem to me to be rather dull and silly. In my ideal life Id be left alone to read Mamie Doran

Read. As much as you can. As deeply and widely and nourishingly and irritatingly as you can. And the good things will make you remember them so you wont need to take notes.

Obliqueness is the curse of the reading class.

I always thought the joy of reading a book is not knowing what happens next. Leonard Shelby Memento

We live in an age that reads too much to be wise.

Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.

It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.

Everywhere I have sought rest and not found it, except sitting in a corner by myself with a little book.

Books succeed, and lives fail.

Books and doors are the same thing. You open them and you go through into another world.

It is what you read when you dont have to that determines what you will be when you cant help it.

In any situation, ask yourself: What strengths do I possess that can contribute towards accomplishing something in this situation? Then follow through.

I read for three things; first, to know what the world has done the last twenty four hours, and is about to do today; second, for the knowledge that I specially want in my work; and third, for what will bring my mind into a proper mood.

The pleasure of reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.

Books are men of higher stature; the only men that speak aloud for future times to hear.

You can never be wise unless you love reading.

Maybe Heaven will be a library and then I might get to finish my toread list.

I guess thats the beauty of books. When they finish they dont really finish.

All the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.

My idea of a fun night was diving into a massive pile of To Be Read pile of books stacked near my dresser...I was the girl who loved everything geeky.

I intend to put up with nothing that I can put down.

You are wise, witty and wonderful, but you spend too much time reading this sort of stuff.

Not being the sort to throw a book she pounded her fist on her cushion.

A book is an arrangement of twentysix phonetic symbols ten numerals and about eight punctuation marks and people can cast their eyes over these and envision the eruption of Mount Vesuvius or the Battle of Waterloo.

I read and in reading lifted the Curtains of the Impossible that blind the mind and looked out into the unknown.

it is nice that nobody writes as they talk and that the printed language is different from the spoken otherwise you could not lose yourself in books and of course you do you completely do.

The Bible remained for me a book of books, still divine but divine in the sense that all great books are divine which teach men how to live righteously.

The detective story is the normal recreation of noble minds.

People read books to escape the uncertainties of life.

What you dont read is often as important as what you do read.

It was not a matter of believing or disbelieving what I read but of feeling something new of being affected by something that made the look of the world different.

Harry had always suffered from a vague restlessness a longing for adventure that she told herself severely was the result of reading too many novels when she was a small child.

We are of opinion that instead of letting books grow moldy behind an iron grating far from the vulgar gaze it is better to let them wear out by being read.

At least half the mystery novels published violate the law that the solution, once revealed, must seem to be inevitable.

A book might be written on the injustice of the just.

I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.

But the penciled sheets did not seem like nor smell like the library book so she had given it up consoling herself with the vow that when she grew up she would work hard save money and buy every single book that she liked.

We should be as careful of the books we read, as of the company we keep. The dead very often have more power than the living.

I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets.

Nine tenths of the existing books are nonsense and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense.

Show me the books he loves and I shall know the man far better than through mortal friends.

Until it is kindled by a spirit as flamingly alive as the one which gave it birth a book is dead to us. Words divested of their magic are but dead hieroglyphs.

I dont know whats more tragic knowing how to read and choosing not to or not knowing how to read and refusing to learn.

A person who publishes a book appears willfully in public with his pants down.

All that mankind has done thought gained or been it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.

Hard writing makes easy reading.

We read frequently if unknowingly in quest of a mind more original than our own.

Reading... a vacation for the mind....

Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man.

You know how it is when youre reading a book and falling asleep youre reading reading... and all of a sudden you notice your eyes are closed Im like that all the time.

So much of ones life was spent reading it made sense not to do it alone.

When a book raises your spirit, and inspires you with noble and manly thoughts, seek for no other test of its excellence. It is good, and made by a good workman.

The genres it is thought have other designs on us. They want to entertain as opposed to rubbing our noses in the daily grit produced by the daily grind. Unhappily for realistic novelists the larger reading public likes being entertained.

For once the disease of reading has laid upon the system it weakens so that it falls an easy prey to that other scourge which dwells in the ink pot and festers in the quill. The wretch takes to writing.

The thing about me and books is that whichever one Im reading always reminds me of whatevers happening in my life during that time.

I guess a bit part of serious fictions purpose is to give the reader who like all of us is sort of marooned in her own skull to give her imaginative access to other selves.

Books are both our luxuries and our daily bread.

Sometimes I think heaven must be one continuous unexhausted reading.

There must be a secret hidden in this book or else you wouldnt bother to read it

Reading the Scriptures is an uplifting experience.

Reading nurtures the soul and an enlightened friend brings it solace.

God how I still love private readers. Its what we all used to be.

Who ever converses among old books will be hard to please among the new.

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

I know because I read. Might I suggest you try it

My early and invincible love of readingI would not exchange for the treasures of India.

... that when youre buying books youre optimistically thinking youre buying the time to read them. Paraphrase of Schopenhauer

The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them.

A writer only begins a book. A reader finishes it.

Theres nothing as cozy as a piece of candy and a book.

Each book was a world unto itself and in it I took refuge.

Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.

It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.

To be the best you have to be willing to do what nobody does. And today if nobody reads and nobody works hard then you also have to give up reading and become lethargic to be successful.

Classic a book which people praise and dont read.

I am always chilled and astonished by the wouldbe writers who ask me for advice and admit quite blithely that they dont have time to read. This is like a guy starting up Mount Everest saying that he didnt have time to buy any rope or pitons.

Those who scorn you taunt only themselves I knew this without reading one word because in reading one is reminded of the truth man is given at birth by man I mean man and woman.

The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it.

Another thing I need to do when Im near the end of the book is sleep in the same room with it...Somehow the book doesnt leave you when youre asleep right next to it.

Buying a book is not about obtaining a possession but about securing a portal.

No matter who you are no matter where you live and no matter how many people are chasing you what you dont read is often as important as what you do read.

Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere.

Read Homer once, and you can read no more. For all books else appear so mean, and so poor. Verse will seem prose; but still persist to read, and Homer will be all the books you need.

Books didnt make me wallow in darkness darkness made me wallow in books.

There is no Frigate like a book To take us Lands away Nor any Coursers like a Page Of prancing Poetry...

A book you finish reading is not the same book it was before you read it.

There is no such thing as a child who hates to read there are only children who have not found the right book.

There is a set of religious, or rather moral, writings which teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine, and to which we have but one objection, namely, that it is not true.

Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.

A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.

Madam Pince our librarian tells me that it is pawed about dribbled on and generally maltreated nearly everyday a high compliment for any book.

Most books, like their authors, are born to die; of only a few books can it be said that death has no dominion over them; they live, and their influence lives forever.

That is dreamreading. As the birds leave south or north in their season the Dreamreader has dreams to read.

When you buy a jacket its important the pockets are big enough for a paperback

How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book! The book exists for us, perchance, that will explain our miracles and reveal new ones. The at present unutterable things we may find somewhere uttered.

Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method. Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could buy but do not like.

A multitude of books distracts the mind.

If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago.

The chief knowledge that a man gets from reading books is the knowledge that very few of them are worth reading.

Good literature continually read for pleasure must, let us hope, do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and mellow the rawness of his personal opinions.

It is when we are faced with death that we turn most bookish.

It did occur to me that the effect of good literature may be as dizzying as that of alcohol.

Ahhh. Bed book kitten sandwich. All one needed in life really.

Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors.

Nothing was truly unbearable if you had something to read.

The truth is that every true admirer of the novels cherishes the happy thought that he alone reading between the lines has bcome the secret friend of their author.

I read a lot. I love books. If they came in a bottle Id be a drunk too.

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

Reading centers on finding yourself in a book. Sherman Alexie

Once you read something you cant erase it from your brain.

Does there, I wonder, exist a being who has read all, or approximately all, that the person of average culture is supposed to have read, and that not to have read is a social sin? If such a being does exist, surely he is an old, a very old man.

It was a joy Words werent dull words were things that could make your mind hum. If you read them and let yourself feel the magic you could live without pain with hope no matter what happened to you.

You have to remember that it is impossible to commit a crime while reading a book.

It was amazing how many books one could fit into a room assuming one didnt want to move around very much.

...If I dont have twenty or thirty books right here waiting to be read I start jonesing. Thats my compulsion.

Youll get younger not from what you read but from what you apply in your life. 192

Reading is untidy discursive and perpetually inviting.

I even love the smell of books.

All these are readers and their gestures their craft the pleasure the responsibility and the power they derive from reading are common with mine. I am not alone.

Every abridgement of a good book is a fool abridged.

Who was it who said I hold the buying of more books than one can peradventure read as nothing less than the souls reaching towards infinity which is the only thing that raises us above the beasts that perish Whoever it was I agree with him.

She is a great gobbler of books but reads only trash memorizing nothing and leaving out the longer descriptions.

I love pop culture the Rolling Stones the Doors David Lynch things like that. Thats why I said I dont like elitism.

You want to remember that while youre judging the book the book is also judging you.

Im a reading addict. I cant live without it like someone who is addicted to drugs.

Instead wed do what we always did the only thing wed ever been dependably stellar at wed read.

One can fight money only with money from my Tale Of The Rock Pieces.

Books are absent teachers.

Once you learn to read, you will be forever free

A dose of poison can do its work but once. A bad book can go on poisoning minds for generations.

I did not want to spend my time reading about people who never were doing things they never did.

People love to read about sins and errors but not their own.

Sleep is good he said And books are better.

I always begin at the left with the opening word of the sentence and read toward the right and I recommend this method.

Reading a book is something you do to yourself.

Accept criticism. If you do not offer your work for criticism and accept that criticism meaning give it serious thought and attention then you will never improve.

The dull people decided years and years ago as everyone knows that novelwriting was the lowest species of literary exertion and that novel reading was a dangerous luxury and an utter waste of time.

You never forget the books you loved as a kid. You never forget the poems you memorized the first book you read until the cover fell off the book you read hidden from your mother. What an honor to hold hands with a childs imagination in this way.

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

Youll never be alone if youve got a book.

Through our reading we can travel to other times and other places into other peoples minds and hearts and souls it is a transcendent experience.

All books are either dreams or swords.

Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.

A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called

Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators.

He understood the way that you could sometimes fall right into them as if each page was a hole into another world.

If we weigh the significance of a book by the effect it has on its readers then the great childrens books suddenly turn up very high on the list.

Books are the best of things if well used; if abused, among the worst. They are good for nothing but to inspire. I had better never see a book than be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit, and made a satellite instead of a system.

The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.

You should read books like you take medicine, by advice, and not by advertisement.

But at some point Tengo noticed that returning to reality from the world of a novel was not as devastating a blow as returning from the world of mathematics.

The world was hers for the reading.

The person who deserves most pity is a lonesome one on a rainy day who doesnt know how to read.

A story can always break into pieces while it sits inside a book on a shelf and decades after we have read it even twenty times it can open us up by cut or caress to a new truth.

Statistically if youre reading this sentence youre an oddball. The average American spends three minutes a day reading a book. At this moment you and I are engaged in an essentially antiquated interaction. Welcome fellow Neanderthal

This book does not exist. And even if it did it wouldnt be worth buying or reading.

Books are the ultimate Dumpees put them down and theyll wait for you forever pay attention to them and they always love you back.

I read trash. Empty cereal boxes empty shampoo bottles the bottoms of empty Kleenex boxes and occasionally even a mystical selfhelp book.

And read read all the time read as a matter of principle as a matter of selfrespect. Read as a nourishing staple of life.

That is part of the beauty of literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings that youre not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.

Associate with the noblest people you can find read the best books live with the mighty but learn to be happy alone.

There are adventures of the spirit and one can travel in books and interest oneself in people and affairs. One need never be dull as long as one has friends to help gardens to enjoy and books in the long winter evenings.

To quote French author Francois Mauriac Tell me what you read and Ill tell you who your are is true enough but Id know you better if you told me what you reread.

She read Dickens in the same spirit she would have eloped with him.

Many people myself among them feel better at the mere sight of a book.

Have you ever rightly considered what the mere ability to read means? That it is the key which admits us to the whole world of thought and fancy and imagination? To the company of saint and sage, of the wisest and the wittiest at their wisest and wittiest moment? That it enables us to see with the keenest eyes, hear with the finest ears, and listen to the sweetest voices of all time? More than that, it annihilates time and space for us.

All my good reading, you might say, was done in the toilet. There are passages in Ulysses which can be read only in the toilet if one wants to extract the full flavor of their content.

A good book is always on tap it may be decanted and drunk a hundred times and it is still there for further imbibement.

Reading is a passport to countless adventures.

I am ashamed to say this but as a child neither my parents not my teachers pushed me to read. In fact I did not read an entire book through until I was a grown man and had learned the awesome power of reading on my own.

I forget the greater part of what I read, but all the same it nourishes my mind.

I love the place the magnificent books I require books as I require air.

Individuals who frequently read fiction seem to be better able to understand other people empathize with them and see the world from their perspective.

Many readers judge of the power of a book by the shock it gives their feelings as some savage tribes determine the power of muskets by their recoil; that being considered best which fairly prostrates the purchaser.

A good story defies the readers expectations and in doing so brings them satisfaction.

You do what you were made to do. Some of us were made to read and write. Thanks be to God.

Maybe youre one of those people who writes poems but rarely reads them. Let me put this as delicately as I can If you dont read your writing is going to suck.

Sit in a room and readand read and read. And read the right books by the right people. Your mind is brought onto that level and you have a nice mild slowburning rapture all the time.

I shudder to think of an eternity spend without books. I have hopes that every book that was ever lost is somewhere waiting for me when my life here finally ends.

I wanted to pull down a book open it proper and gobble up page after page

My grandfather once told her if you couldnt read with cold feet there wouldnt be a literate soul in the state of Maine.

What a blessing it is to love books as I love them to be able to converse with the dead and to live amidst the unreal

Some people claim that it is okay to read trashy novels because sometimes you can find something valuable in them. You can also find a crust of bread in a garbage can if you search long enough but there is a better way.

My life is a reading list.

Betsy liked to read her stories aloud and she read them like an actress. She made her voice low and thrillingly deep. She made it shake with emotion. She laughed mockingly and sobbed wildly when the occasion required.

great books are the ones we need

For a moment I was distracted. Books always did that to me... I liked the creamy pages the smell of ink all the secrets locked inside.

A book is a collaboration between the one who reads and what is read and at its best that coming together is a love story like any other.

With my eyes closed I would touch a familiar book and draw its fragrance deep inside me. This was enough to make me happy.

Oh magic hour when a child first knows she can read printed words.

The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.

I have a passion for teaching kids to become readers to become comfortable with a book not daunted. Books shouldnt be daunting they should be funny exciting and wonderful and learning to be a reader gives a terrific advantage.

How can you read and talk at the same time I asked.Well I usually cant but neither the book nor the conversation is particularly intellectually challenging.

Even in the hottest fire theres a bit of water. my The Opposite Of Magic.

Of course. You get everything from books.

Great books are great in part because of what they ask of their readers they are not readily encountered easily assessed.

I did realize as do you how blessed I was to know bookjoy the private pleasure of savoring text.

A good book, in the language of the book sellers, is a salable one; in that of the curious, a scarce one; in that of men of sense, a useful and instructive one.

To look at the paper is to raise a seashell to ones ear and to be overwhelmed by the roar of humanity.

A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.

My reading list grows exponentially. Every time I read a book itll mention three other books I feel I have to read. Its like a particularly relentless series of popup ads.

I have no feelings of guilt regarding the books I have not read and perhaps will never read I know that my books have unlimited patience. They will wait for me till the end of my days.

the joy of someone who had been a reader all her life whose world had been immeasurably enlarged by the words of others.

It takes a great reader to make a great book.

Do you want to die old and craven in your bed How else Though not till Im done reading.

To read is to translate for no two persons experiences are the same. A bad reader is like a bad translator he interprets literally when he ought to paraphrase and paraphrases when he ought to interpret literally.

When you sell a man a book you dont sell him just 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue you sell him a whole new life.

And tell them all about the books youve read. Better still buy some more books and read them. Thats an order. You can never read too many books.

Luckily I always travel with a book just in case I have to wait on line for Santa or some such inconvenience.

May I suggest that you all read And often. Believe me its nice to have something to talk about other than the weather and the Queens health. Your mind is not a cage. Its a garden. And it requires cultivating.

And as I surveyed the clutter of his study I was pleased to see that he was a man after my own heart. All of his money appeared to have been spent on either books or shelves to hold them.

She did not care very much for other little girls but if she had plenty of books she could console herself.

The book thief has struck for the first time the beginning of an illustrious career.

Grinning is something you do when you are entertained in some way such as reading a good book or watching someone you dont care for spill orange soda all over themselves.

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.

I would like to spare the time and effort of hack reviewers and generally persons who move their lips when reading.

Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all.

Werent all books ultimately related After all the same letters filled them just arranged in a different order. Which meant that in a certain way every book was contained in every other

Never write on a subject without first having read yourself full on it; and never read on a subject till you have thought yourself hungry on it.

Buy good books, and read them; the best books are the commonest, and the last editions are always the best, if the editors are not blockheads.

The best effect of any book, is that it excites the reader to self activity.- Thomas Carlyle

The great inconvenience of new books is that they prevent us from reading old books.

Prerequisite for rereadability in books: that they be forgettable.

A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.

Reading is perception as translation. The inert signs of an alphabet become living meanings in the mind.

Lesen lesen immer nur lesen und darber die eigene erbrmliche Existenz vergessen

Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world.

No furniture is so charming as books.

She ate toast in bed then reread a favorite book taking comfort from a story where she knew the outcome would be good and just and right.

You cant just be reading books all the time and leave the writting of them to others.

I read the way a person might swim to save his or her life. I wrote that way too.

A book is not only a friend, it makes friends for you. When you have possessed a book with mind and spirit, you are enriched. But when you pass it on you are enriched threefold.

There is much you can learn from books and scrolls. These books are my friends my companions. They make me laugh and cry and find meaning in life.

Footnotes are the finer suckered surfaces that allow testicular paragraphs to hold fast to the wider reality of the library.

Only if the third necessary thing could be given us. Number one as I said quality of information. Number two leisure to digest it. And number three the right to carry out actions based on what we learn from the interaction of the first two.

The music of revelation announces itself to the reader in somber brooding tones or in melodies light as air and one is invited to dance with the most captivating of partners poetry.

We shouldnt teach great books we should teach a love of reading

The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel, without incurring the accusation of being arbitrary, is that it be interesting.

Good books are for consideration after too.

Today each of you is the object of the others reading one reads in the other the unwritten story.

Im afraid Ive degenerated into a bibliophile.

The most radical audacious thing to think is that there might be some point to working hard and thinking hard and reading hard and writing hard and trying to be of service

It would be difficult to define the limits of his reading.

Literacy is inseparable from opportunity and opportunity is inseperable from freedom. The freedom promised by literacy is both freedom from from ignorance oppression poverty and freedom to to do new things to make choices to learn.

I read for pleasure and that is the moment I learn the most.

She had her addictions and one of them was reading.

Novels and gardens she says. I like to move from plot to plot.

Read good, big important things.

I couldnt convince her that if I had a book with me I wasnt lonely.

Just handle the books gently and youll get along fine.

Books in a large university library system: 2, 000,000. Books in an average large city library: 1 0,000. Average number of books in a chain bookstore: 30, 000. Books in an average neighborhood branch library: 20, 000.

I took the volume to a table opened its soft ivory pages... and fell into it as into a pool during dry season.

No one knows as well as I how much nonsense is printed in books.

Somebody is observing my writings I know that.Thats one reason why I keep reading and writing.

Find a quiet place and just read. If youre reading an ebook clear away everything else but your ebook reader.Then you settle into the reading and enjoy it. Bask in the luxury of reading without distractions.

Books are best preserved in the minds of readers.

I think books are like people in the sense that theyll turn up in your life when you most need them.

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

To hold a book between your hands to form the intimate circle a world apart from the world an otherness that is uniquely your own. Always accompanied by a sound to no one other than yourself.

Reading was not a fallback position for her but an ideal state of being.

Reading isnt an occupation we encourage among police officers. We try to keep the paperwork down to a minimum.

Some men borrow books some men steal books and others beg presentation copies from the author.

an incredibly beautiful read

May I a small house and large garden haveAnd a few friends And many books both true.

If you cannot find yourself on the page very early in life you will go looking for yourself in all the wrong places.

The first time I read an excellent book, it is to me just as if I had gained a new friend. When I read a book over I have perused before, it resembles the meeting with an old one.

We profit little by books we do not enjoy.

Books are vital to learning. Half the population dont go to football matches but that doesnt make football any less important.

I cannot live without books.

Read a different Africa. Love a vibrant Africa.

Books and movies they are not mere entertainment. They sustain me and help me cope with my real life.

A classroom atmosphere that promotes reading does not come from the furniture and its placement as much as it comes from the teachers expectation that students will read.

He loved books books are cold but safe friends.

Read nothing that you do not care to remember, and remember nothing you do not mean to use.

You get a little moody sometimes but I think thats because you like to read. People that like to read are always a little fucked up.

There is nothing more luxurious than eating while you read unless it be reading while you eat. Amabel did both they are not the same thing as you will see if you think the matter over.

Books are standing counselors and preachers, always at hand, and always disinterested; having this advantage over oral instructors, that they are ready to repeat their lesson as often as we please.

Books to judicious compilers, are useful; to particular arts and professions, they are absolutely necessary; to men of real science, they are tools: but more are tools to them.

Many book even lay flat in the floor open. Their spines upward. Elinor couldnt bear to look Didnt the monster know that was the way to break a books neck

Nobody can decide for himself whether he is going to be a human being. The only question open to him is whether he will be an ignorant undeveloped one or one who has sought to reach the highest point he is capable of attaining.

He fed his spirit with the bread of books

Entering a novel is like going on a climb in the mountains you have to learn the rhythm of respiration acquire the pace otherwise you stop right away.

One Lifetime is not enough.

An unread book does nobody any good. Stories happen in the mind of a reader not among symbols printed on a page.

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.

Theyre book addicts.

Reading to small children is a specialty.

It had always fascinated him that shed consumed so many words that her head was full of stories told a thousand different ways.

Easy reading is damn hard writing.

Somewhere, everywhere, now hidden, now apparent in what ever is written down, is the form of a human being. If we seek to know him, are we idly occupied?

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

If you say I dont read like its something to be proud of punch yourself in the face repeatedly.

A house without books must be sad. Even sadder a house of books without people.

A clever schoolboys reaction to his reading is most naturally expressed by parody or imitation.

Without unscrambled eggs there was no time travel no more depredation of the Now and we could look to a brighter future of longterm thoughtand more reading.

I often feel sorry for people who dont read good books they are missing a chance to lead an extra life.

When a goat likes a book the whole book is goneand the meaning has to go find an author again.The Trouble With Reading

Deep versed in books and shallow in himself.

I see all of us reading ourselves away from ourselves straining in circles of light to find more light until the line of words becomes a trail of crumbs that we follow across a page of fresh snow...

...we could think or feel as we wished toward the characters or as the poet discounting history invited us to we were the poets guest his world was his own kingdom reached as one of the poems told us through the Ring of Words...

the RealWorld was a sprawling mess of a book in need of a good editor.

He has left off reading altogether, to the great improvement of his originality.

We dont read novels to have an experience like life. Heck were living lives complete with all the incompleteness. We turn to fiction to have an author assure us that it means something.

Denn ich ohne Bcher bin nicht ich.

Sometimes you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.

Poetry is not the most important thing in life... Id much rather lie in a hot bath reading Agatha Christie and sucking sweets.

I know every book of mine by its smell, and I have but to put my nose between the pages to be reminded of all sorts of things.

I simply dont shine in company. Mostly I prefer to retreat with a book.

We can learn to pay attention concentrate devote ourselves to authors. We can slow down so we can hear the voice of texts feel the movement of sentences experience the pleasure of wordsand own passages that speak to us. p. 41

Go to hell Im reading

When the printing press was developed in the fifteenth century it was said that printed books would make reading and writing the infatuation of people who have no business reading and writing.

If you go home with somebody and they dont have books dont fuck em

Youre either reading a book or youre not.

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 in them but lives in them perpetually.

The flickering candlelight conspired with the silence and we only interrupted each others reading to share a casual delight.

Reading one book is like eating one potato chip.

Dont be jealous be agressive. Make 2012 yours

The most essential and fundamental aspect of culture is the study of literature since this is an education in how to picture and understand human situations.

When you read a great book you dont escape from life you plunge deeper into it.

Guess Ive been reading too much fantasy.

Books appear to be the most immediate instruments of speculative delight.

Temeraire said It is very nice how many books there are indeed. And on so many subjects

Perhaps there is some secret sort of homing instinct in books that brings them to their perfect readers.

Sure why not she said. You know you read about a crime in the paper and you think how terrible for the victims and then you turn the page and move on.

Reading is entering into the consciousness of another human being.

Bean felt a rush of sweet nostalgia for the woman who had introduced us to E. Nesbit and Edward Eager and Laura Ingalls Wilder...

If you truly love a book you should sleep with it write in it read aloud from it and fill its pages with muffin crumbs.

Es geht uns mit Bchern wie mit den Menschen. Wir machen zwar viele Bekanntschaften aber nur wenige erwhlen wir zu unseren Freunden.

Reading every day keeps the brain dead sickness away.

I would rather read a mediocre book than waste time sitting around with people making small talk.

What are books but tangible dreams What is reading if it is not dreaming The best books cause us to dream the rest are not worth reading.

Perhaps a book becomes a classic in proportion to how broadly its characters can be scavenged how many readers find within it something they experience as desirable or even intimately necessary.

Reading aloud means no skipping no skimming no cutting to the chase.

Reading is a gift. Its something you can do almost anytime and anywhere. It can be a tremendous way to learn relax and even escape. So enough about the virtues of reading. Time to read on.

Dont just read words he would tell her as he held up the latest story devour them. Let the words create new worlds.

There is no such thing as a functional illiterate.

Write it down boy. If you come across a passage in your reading that youd like to remember write it down in your little book then you can read it again memorize it and have it whenever you wish.

I live to write but I read to live.

Let us read with method, and propose to ourselves an end to what our studies may point. The use of reading is to aid us in thinking.

A wellread woman is a dangerous creature.

Books were my passion and my escape from madness.

If we could follow the slogan that saysTurn off the TV and open a good book we would do something of substance for a future generation.

But a readers ambition knows no bounds.

The paper is patient but the reader is not.

A thirteenyearold is a kaleidoscope of different personalities if not in most ways a mere figment of her own imagination. At that age what and who you are depends largely on what book you happen to be reading at the moment.

Why do all your friends talk like books

We know how it ends practically before it starts. Thats why stories appeal to us. They give us the clarity and simplicity our real lives lack.

A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.

Nehmen Sie ein gutes Buch mit ins Bett Bcher schnarchen nicht.

Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable.

That perfect tranquility of life which is nowhere to be found but in retreat a faithful friend and a good library.

That I could find company and consolation and hope in an object pulled almost at random from a bookshelffelt akin to an instance of religious grace.

I am a man without many pleasures in life a man whose few pleasures are small but a man whose small pleasures are very important to him. One of them is eating. One reading. Another reading while eating.

A good title is the title of a successful book.

Most of my reading is rereading.

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

Above all things read. Read the great stylists who cannot be copied rather than the successful writers who must not be copied.

Who made you Queen of Literacy Go sit in your car

There are two kinds of books. Those that no one reads and those that no one ought to read.

Remember when you dont know what to do it never hurts to play Scrabble. Its like reading the I Ching or tea leaves.

People who say they dont have time to read simply dont want to.

Never read any book that is not a year old.

All good and true booklovers practice the pleasing and improving avocation of reading in bed ... No book can be appreciated until it has been slept with and dreamed over.

One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person perhaps someone dead for 1000 years. To read is to voyage through time.

Most nonreaders are nothing but an agglomeration of thirdhand opinion and blindly received wisdom.

I go on writing so that I will always have something to read.

Reading is difficult. People just arent meant to read anymore. Were in a postliterate age. You know a visual age. How many years after the fall of Rome did it take for a Dante to appear Many many years.

Those who do not read are no better off than those who cannot read.

Reading is accumulating knowledge. But not only that. Reading offers us every day what religion promises us for a posthumous and improbable future the possibility of living beyond what our lifetime allows us to.

Beyond any gift or treasure I desire to learn to read. Lia The Wretched of Muirwood

Camerado! This is no book; who touches this touches a man.

But when you read books you almost feel like youre out there in the world. Like youre going on this adventure right with the main character. At least thats the way I do it. Its actually not that bad. Even if it is mad nerdy.

How do you press a wildflower into the pages of an ebook

I shall keep my book on the table here and read a little every morning as soon as I wake for I know it will do me good and help me through the day.

Getting all emotionally wrapped up in madeup peoples lives gives me a chance to take a break from my own life ....

I stretched out my hand towards the little bookshelf where I kept cookery and devotional books the most comfortable bedside reading.

The importance of reading for me is that it allows you to dream . Reading not only educates but is relaxing and allows you to feed your imagination creating beautiful pictures from carefully chosen words.

I love reading I know its very important and I respect anyone that is patient enough to do it.

. . .sometimes reading the same page over and over until one sleepy afternoon something clicked like a lock unlocking and she saw those printed doors swing open on a vast house of words.

Lgen schmerzen die Wahrheit jedoch bewegt uns.

A good book will pull you in from the beginning and take you on a journey youll never forget.

To own a certain book and to choose it without help is to define yourself.

See she goes places when she reads. I know all about that. When Im reading wherever I am Im always somewhere else.

In our land of opportunities and distractions its hard to devote our attention to the quiet pleasures of reading. Its as if we live our lives in a noisy restaurant and cant have the intimate conversation we most yearn for.

Young men especially in America write to me and ask me to recommend a course of reading. Distrust a course of reading People who really care for books read all of them. There is no other course.

I read the fuck out of every book I can get my hands on.

It looks too new and pristine ever to have been read by anyone else but it as been it keeps falling open at the most delightful places as the ghost of its former owner points me to things Ive never read before.

How can we read when people need our help Its a luxury. A stupid luxury.

As long as you have any floor space at all you have room for books Just make two stacks of books the same height place them three or four feet apart lay a board across them and repeat. Viola Bookshelves

Use more caution the next time you make a reading selection. Books you know are a lot like people and each and every one of us is ultimately judged by the company we keep

It must be that people who read go on more macrocosmic and microcosmic trips biblical god trips the Tibetan Book of the Dead Ulysses Finnegans Wake trips. Nonreaders what do they get They get the munchies.

The most talented writer in the world is life itself and my books are alternative scenarios of what I read in it.

When was the last time you read a book The truth now. And picture books dont countI mean something with print in it.

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 a last sentence.

Read to escape reality . . . Write to embrace it.

Dislui que les livres ont la puissance que leur accorde leur lecteur et que celleci peut tre sans fin.

Sometimes if you listen carefully, you can hear the book. But Is it you reading or is the book talking? By ig Oliver

A capacity, and taste, for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.

Reading books would only be boring if you lack imagination.

Reading books, is a best meditation..

There are worst crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book! When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.

Tucking my nose into a book makes me completely oblivious to my surroundings. I would have made a terrible spy in the armythe first person to hand me a novel would have been able to shoot my head clean off without me noticing.

The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that.

Only a generation of readers will span a generation of writers.