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...

Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to...

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...

For some of us, books are as important as almost anything else on earth. What a miracle it is that out of these small, flat, rigid squares of paper unfolds world after world after world, worlds that...

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...

Why are we reading, if not in hope of beauty laid bare, life heightened and its deepest mystery probed? Can the writer isolate and vivify all in experience that most deeply engages our intellects and...

She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live. She read books as one would breathe ether, to sink in and die.

...the space which {books} occupied was itself an expectation.

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

Think of this - that the writer wrote alone, and the reader read alone, and they were alone with each other.

When I was a child I read books for entertainment and information; I now think of books as lifeboats.

..holding a book but reading the empty spaces.

A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.

So I ask you: whose job is it in this country to wake up comatose parents? Someone better do it soon because knowing television's potential for harm and keeping that knowledge to ourselves instead of...

In essence , games are the only universally serious activity . They leave no room for skepticism , wouldn't you agree ? However incredulous or doubting you might be , if you want to play , you have no...

It does not take long. Soon the fine galloping language, the gutless swooning full of sapless trees and dehydrated lusts begins to swim smooth and swift and peaceful. It is better than praying without...

Once in a very long time you come across a book that is far, far more than the ink, the glue and the paper, a book that seeps into your blood. With such a book the impact isn't necessarily obvious at...

Once in a very long time you come across a book that is far, far more than the ink, the glue and the paper, a book that seeps into your blood.

Why do you read then?'Partly for pleasure, because it's a habit and I'm just as uncomfortable if I don't read as if I don't smoke, and partly to know myself. When I read a book I seem to read it with...

{...} he made it a rule never to touch a book by any author who had not been dead at least 30 years.That's the only kind of book I can trust, he said.It's not that I don't believe in contemporary...