I'm a Virgo and I'm more - I don't want to say 'negative' - but I'm the girl who thinks no one's coming to my birthday party, no one's buying my clothes, no one's reading my book, no one's watching my...

You can never draw enough or read enough - reading about architecture, in other words.

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

Reading is not just an escape. It is access to a better way of life.

The only way to do all the things you'd like to do is to read

I do not mind sleepless nights to be involved in reading.

We human beings build houses because we're alive, but we write books because we're mortal. We live in groups because we're sociable, but we read because we know we're alone. Reading offers a kind of...

Rereading, we find a new book

Reading is your first line of defense against an empty head.

How can we read when people need our help? It's a luxury. A stupid luxury.

Reading is an addiction, much like living and breathing is an addiction.

Reading a great work of literature can truly be likened to having a conversation with a great mind.

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.

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

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

Books gnaw at me from around the edges of my life, demanding more time and attention. I am always left hungry.

I cannot live without reading.

Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought.

The true reader reads every work seriously in the sense that he reads it whole - wholeheartedly, makes himself as receptive as he can. But for that very reason he cannot possibly read every work...

Our knowledge is limited. However, reading augments our knowledge.

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

When you open a book it's like going to the theater first you see the curtain then it is pulled aside and the show begins.

All afternoon, I read. I fall asleep once as well, no disrespect to the writers.

When you finish reading a book and think to yourself, 'I wish the author was a close friend of mine so I could call him anytime I want and talk,' then that book is truly good.

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

What is the use of a book without pictures or conversations?-Alice in Wonderland

Read what you find interesting, and then follow your interests. You'll find that in doing so you always generate enough to illuminate the next step.

{When} he's here, he's always reading. He says books stop time. I myself think he's crazy...Don't tell anyone, but when he reads something that he likes he gets real happy, turns on the music, and...

I'd rather have a book, but in a pinch I'll settle for a set of Water Pik instructions.

Both reading and writing are experiences--lifelong-- in the course of which we who encounter words used in certain ways are persuaded by them to be brought mind and heart within the presence, the...