- It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it. Oscar Wilde
- “God wants all man’s attention, thoughts and focus to be on Him.” ― Jaachynma N.E. Agu, The Prince and the Pauper
- “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.” ― John Burroughs, The Summit of the Years
- “و عندما تحس و أنت تقرأ بمثل حركة الرادار، فقف..إن عقلك قد وجد نفسه هنا.. و إنك الآن أمام كلمة أو عبارة تحمل لك فيضاً من الأسرار و الأفكار، إذا أنت تدبرتها و نحيّت الكتاب جانباً لتتأمل هذه العبارة التي اهتز لها وجدانك ، واختلج عقلك..لا تهمل هذه الومضات التي تواتيك و أنت تقرأ .. فإنها مفاتيح كنوز جليلة..عندما تبلغ عبارة تمس روحك مس الكهرباء ، و تحس فيها شيئاً يستوقفك و يبهرك، فنح الكتاب قليلاً ، و أصغ لما توحيه إليك، و فكر فيها. ستفتح بصيرتك إلى عالم من الأفكار جديد..و هذه مزية القراءة.فنحن لا نقرأ لنزيد معلوماتنا، و ننمي معارفنا فحسب، بل نقرأ لأن القراءة تلهمنا، و تطل بنا إلى أفكار عذراء تنتظرنا لنكشفها و نضيفها إلى تراث الفكر الإنساني.” ― خالد محمد خالد
- “I can blend words easily with my pen, and show concepts from deep within. Yet not everyone gets the message I send. So why do I even let these words begin? Maybe they will soak in one day at the right time. When the readers on a new path to find. So for now I’ll continue to drop ink and not worry about what other people think.” ― Stanley Victor Paskavich
- “You know how it is when you’re reading a book and falling asleep, you’re reading, reading… and all of a sudden you notice your eyes are closed? I’m like that all the time.” ― Steven Wright
- “A book should be an axe to break the frozen sea inside you.” ― Ali Smith, Summer
- “At the end of the day your ability to connect with your readers comes down to how you make them feel.” ― Benjamin J. Carey, Barefoot in November
- The man who doesn’t read good books has no advantage over the man who can’t read them. Mark Twain
- “A short story is a different thing altogether – a short story is like a quick kiss in the dark from a stranger.” ― Stephen King, Skeleton Crew
- “Let’s be reasonable and add an eighth day to the week that is devoted exclusively to reading.” ― Lena Dunham
- “We encounter great souls, who lived in historical times, in ancient books.” ― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
- “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 our heats? Can the writer renew our hope for literary forms? Why are we reading if not in hope that the writer will magnify and dramatize our days, will illuminate and inspire us with wisdom, courage, and the possibility of meaningfulness, and will press upon our minds the deepest mysteries, so we may feel again their majesty and power?” ― Annie Dillard, The Writing Life
- “the Real-World was a sprawling mess of a book in need of a good editor.” ― Jasper Fforde, One of Our Thursdays Is Missing
- No two persons ever read the same book. Edmund Wilson
- “We may be sure that the characteristic blindness of the twentieth century – the blindness about which posterity will ask, “But how could they have thought that?” – lies where we have never suspected it… None of us can fully escape this blindness, but we shall certainly increase it, and weaken our guard against it, if we read only modern books. Where they are true they will give us truths which we half knew already. Where they are false they will aggravate the error with which we are already dangerously ill. The only palliative is to keep the clean sea breeze of the centuries blowing through our minds, and this can be done only by reading old books.” ― C.S. Lewis, On the Incarnation
- “The money you are looking for is not in any country, phd or your designer outlook, it is in wisdom. Solomon never prayed for wealth but he asked for wisdom.” ― Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
- “Worm has a negative sense whereas lover has a positive one. So, a person who enjoys reading should be called a ‘book-lover’, not a ‘bookworm’ because a worm destroys the book, but a lover loves, values, cherishes and protects it!” ― Md. Ziaul Haque
- “You are not permitted to live and die as a non-entity because you have encountered the greatness that is associated with Christ.” ― Jaachynma N.E. Agu, The Prince and the Pauper
- “The three most important habits (in no particular order): 1. exercise (resistance training) 2. reading (self-help) 3. meditation” ― Robert Celner
- “He chose The Metamorphosis over The Trial, he chose Bartleby over Moby-Dick, he chose A Simple Heart over Bouvard and Pecuchet, and A Christmas Carol over A Tale of Two Cities or The Pickwick Papers. What a sad paradox, thought Amalfitano. Now even bookish pharmacists are afraid to take on the great, imperfect, torrential works, books that blaze paths into the unknown. They choose the perfect exercises of the great masters. Or what amounts to the same thing: they want to watch the great masters spar, but they have no interest in real combat, when the great masters struggle against that something, that something that terrifies us all, that something that cows us and spurs us on, amid blood and mortal wounds and stench.” ― Roberto Bolaño, 2666
- “A well-read woman is a dangerous creature.” ― Lisa Kleypas, A Wallflower Christmas
- 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. John Green (The Fault in Our Stars)
- Go to bed smarter than when you woke up. Charlie Munger
- “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.” ― David Adams Richards, Mercy Among the Children
- “…ending a book with a sequel in such a way that the reader still has faith in the characters and in the writer. That’s finesse.” ― Shandy L. Kurth
- Remember: reading is a journey to find the great books for you. Johnny Uzan
- “People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.” ― Logan Pearsall Smith
- “No man’s advice can change you unless you speak to yourself. Bible school or seminars can’t change you, going to church can’t change you except you decide to change.Psalm 139:23 – 24” ― Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
- Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly. Francis Bacon