- “On the occasions that he did look up from the page, he would seem as though he were awakening from a dream.” ― Laini Taylor, Strange the Dreamer
- Reading and experience train your model of the world. And even if you forget the experience or what you read, its effect on your model of the world persists. Your mind is like a compiled program you’ve lost the source of. It works, but you don’t know why. Paul Graham
- “Even most of those who really never have time to read a book usually have more than enough time to listen to one.” ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- “Reading takes time, and the glass teat takes too much of it.” ― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
- “Learning and knowing something is cool, but superb knowledge comes when you leave your books and become the inner world’s friend.” ― Michael Bassey Johnson
- “This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.” ― Ezra Pound
- “Everyone that enters through Him is secured and the person shall find pastures for himself. Jesus really cares!” ― Jaachynma N.E. Agu, The Prince and the Pauper
- “بربك لا تبكِ بكاء المظلوم !إن زرت أوطاني يوماً ولمحت نوافذ إنتظاري مغلقةوأبواب فقدي لك مؤصدة ،بربك لا تبكِ بكاء المظلوم !إن إحتفلوا بيوم ميلادك وبحثت عن صوتي بينهم ..ولم تجده ؟ وبحثت عن هداياي من بين هداياهم ولم تصلك” ― نجلاء حسن, قلب صام عن هوى الرجال
- Fools read popular books. The wise the ones they need. Maxime Lagacé
- Reading is not a chore. Reading is theft. It is a robbery. Someone smarter than you has spent 20 years beating their head against the wall trying to solve the problem you’re dealing with. You can steal that hard-won knowledge and make it yours. That is power. @TheStoicEmperor
- “Anyway—because we are readers, we don’t have to wait for some communications executive to decide what we should think about next—and how we should think about it. We can fill our heads with anything from aardvarks to zucchinis—at any time of night or day.” ― Kurt Vonnegut, Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage
- “There is no lady more stisfaied than her beautiful reading and understanding.” ― Alan Maiccon
- “Her reputation for reading a great deal hung about her like the cloudy envelope of a goddess in an epic.” ― Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady
- “Having an opinion on something is not wisdom. Everybody has opinions. Seeing something in its entirety is called wisdom.” ― Shunya
- “Luckily, I have music and books to calm the pandemonium in my head.” ― Maude Julien, The Only Girl in the World
- “Reading, literacy and learning are fundamentally important to establishing strong and stable democracies. Visit your local public library and expand your mind.” ― Jennifer Ritchie Payette
- We read books to find out who we are. Ursula K. Le Guin
- “A tough life needs a tough language—and that is what poetry is. That is what literature offers—a language powerful enough to say how it is.” ― Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
- “Oh, Sweetie. No one ever gets through their TBR list. For every book you finish, you’ll add five more. That’s just the way it works.” ― Leisa Rayven, Wicked Heart
- “When I’m depressed, I read Caeiro — he’s my fresh air. I become very calm, content, faithful — yes, I find faith in God, and in the soul’s transcendent living smallness, after reading the poems by that ungodly anti-humanist who goes unsurpassed on earth.” ― Álvaro de Campos
- “A well-read woman is a dangerous creature.” ― Lisa Kleypas, A Wallflower Christmas
- “A good story is a dream shared by the author and the reader. Anything that wakes the reader from the dream is a mortal sin.” ― Victor J. Banis
- Reading the whole book is not important, understanding what you are reading is. @AmuseChimp
- “I believe that reading and writing are the most nourishing forms of meditation anyone has so far found. By reading the writings of the most interesting minds in history, we meditate with our own minds and theirs as well. This to me is a miracle.” ― Kurt Vonnegut, Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage
- “You should never read just for “enjoyment.” Read to make yourself smarter! Less judgmental. More apt to understand your friends’ insane behavior, or better yet, your own. Pick “hard books.” Ones you have to concentrate on while reading. And for god’s sake, don’t let me ever hear you say, “I can’t read fiction. I only have time for the truth.” Fiction is the truth, fool! Ever hear of “literature”? That means fiction, too, stupid.” ― John Waters, Role Models
- “Two things put me in the spirit to give. One is that I have come to think of everyone with whom I come into contast as a patient in the emergency room. I see a lot of gaping wounds and dazed expressions. Or, as Marianne Moore put it, “The world’s an orphan’s home.” And this feels more true than almost anything else I know. But so many of us can be soothed by writing: think of how many times you have opened a book, read one line, and said, “Yes!” And I want to give people that feeling, too, of connection, communication.” ― Anne Lamott
- Read what you love until you love to read. Naval Ravikant
- Reading a book isn’t a race – the better the book, the slower it should be absorbed. Naval Ravikant
- “Cram your head with characters and stories. Abuse your library privileges. Never stop looking at the world, and never stop reading to find out what sense other people have made of it. If people give you a hard time and tell you to get your nose out of a book, tell them you’re working. Tell them it’s research. Tell them to pipe down and leave you alone.” ― Jennifer Weiner
- ′Classic′ – a book which people praise and don’t read. Mark Twain