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...

That's what books are for, to travel without moving an inch.

Surely we all occasionally buy books because of a daydream we're having--a little fantasy about the people we might turn into one day, when our lives are different, quieter, more introspective, and...

I don't mind nothing happening in a book, but nothing happening in a phony way--characters saying things people never say, doing jobs that don't fit, the whole works--is simply asking too much of a...

We are never allowed to forget that some books are badly written; we should remember that sometimes they're badly read, too.

I would like my personal reading map to resemble a map of the British Empire circa 1900.

And what would happen if we never read the classics? There comes a point in life, it seems to me, where you have to decide whether you're a Person of Letters or merely someone who loves books, and I'm...

Fortunately, I read {the books} without knowing what I was in for, and the best thing that can ever happen to a reader happened to me: I loved something that, by conviction {or by my nature} I should...

Today each of you is the object of the other's reading, one reads in the other the unwritten story.

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...

People sometimes act as though owning books you haven't read constitutes a charade or pretense, but for me, there's a lovely mystery and pregnancy about a book that hasn't given itself over to you...

Beware of books. They are more than innocent assemblages of paper and ink and string and glue. If they are any good, they have the spirit of the author within. Authors are rogues and ruffians and easy...

I rushed to the living room to protect myself from I don't know what, behind my best friend, a book.

When I read a book, I put in all the imagination I can, so that it is almost like writing the book as well as reading it - or rather, it is like living it. It makes reading so much more exciting, but...

Now I say, ”said Don Quijote to this season," that she reads a lot and goes a lot and she knows a lot.

It is, therefore, to know that this above -mentioned Hidalgo, the times that was idle, that were the most of the year, was read.

Back at home they drew the curtains and read, with disapproval, with relish, with avidity and glee - even the ones who'd never thought of opening a novel before. There's nothing like a shovelful of...

Books are like truth serum-- if you don't read, you can't figure out what's real.

Great land of sublimated things, thou World of Books, happy asyluum, refreshment and refuge from the world of everyday! . . .

She probably had her nose stuck in a book, living in a pretend fantasy world while I was actually out there living in the real fantasy world.