- “Reading takes time, and the glass teat takes too much of it.” ― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
- “I love bookshelves, and stacks of books, spines, typography, and the feel of pages between my fingertips. I love bookmarks, and old bindings, and stars in margins next to beautiful passages. I love exuberant underlinings that recall to me a swoon of language-love from a long-ago reading, something I hoped to remember. I love book plates, and inscriptions in gifts from loved ones, I love author signatures, and I love books sitting around reminding me of them, being present in my life, being. I love books. Not just for what they contain. I love them as objects too, as ever-present reminders of what they contain, and because they are beautiful. They are one of my favorite things in life, really at the tiptop of the list, easily my favorite inanimate things in existence, and … I am just not cottoning on to this idea of making them … not exist anymore. Making them cease to take up space in the world, in my life? No, please do not take away the physical reality of my books.” ― Laini Taylor
- “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
- Sow the right seeds. Maxime Lagacé
- “Think of this – that the writer wrote alone, and the reader read alone, and they were alone with each other.” ― A.S. Byatt, Possession
- “People would want to get safe and come to Christ because they see the evidence in your life not because you quote the scriptures to them.” ― Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
- Once you learn to read, you will be forever free. Frederick Douglass
- “Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.” ― Socrates
- “There is no Frigate like a Book To take us Lands awayNor any Coursers like a Page Of prancing Poetry – This Traverse may the poorest takeWithout oppress of Toll – How frugal is the Chariot That bears a Human soul.” ― Emily Dickinson, Selected Poems
- In reality every reader is, while he is reading, the reader of his own self. The writer’s work is merely a kind of optical instrument which he offers to the reader to enable him to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have perceived in himself. Marcel Proust
- “Your decision not to join the crowd may be what God is waiting for to grant you revelation on how to deliver your family, your country, business, profession or even your church!” ― Jaachynma N.E. Agu, The Prince and the Pauper
- “Without you discovering your true picture, it will be hard to have a glorious future. It is the discovery of what you have inside and the pursuit of it that can guarantee a glorious future” ― Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
- ′Classic′ – a book which people praise and don’t read. Mark Twain
- “The three most important habits (in no particular order): 1. exercise (resistance training) 2. reading (self-help) 3. meditation” ― Robert Celner
- Skim quickly to find something worth reading, and then absorb it slowly. Words per minute is a vanity metric – any book worth reading requires pausing to reflect. Naval Ravikant
- “Words are directed to your personalities namely; – God, your hearers, devil and yourself.” ― Jaachynma N.E. Agu, The Prince and the Pauper
- Netflix is overrated. Reading books is underrated. Thibaut
- “The House Was Quiet and the World Was CalmThe house was quiet and the world was calm. The reader became the book; and summer night Was like the conscious being of the book. The house was quiet and the world was calm. The words were spoken as if there was no book, Except that the reader leaned above the page, Wanted to lean, wanted much to be The scholar to whom his book is true, to whom The summer night is like a perfection of thought. The house was quiet because it had to be. The quiet was part of the meaning, part of the mind: The access of perfection to the page. And the world was calm. The truth in a calm world, In which there is no other meaning, itself Is calm, itself is summer and night, itself Is the reader leaning late and reading there.” ― Wallace Stevens, Transport to Summer
- We read books to find out who we are. Ursula K. Le Guin
- “When the writing is good, a book becomes a mirror. The reader will see an uncanny familiarity and respond accordingly.” ― Jen Knox, After the Gazebo
- “A well-read woman is a dangerous creature.” ― Lisa Kleypas, A Wallflower Christmas
- Meditation, yoga, reading philosophy, non-judgmental awareness, and coaching. Naval Ravikant (On his dharma practice (“right way of living”))
- “Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You’ll absorb it.Then write. If it’s good, you’ll find out. If it’s not, throw it out of the window.” ― William Faulkner
- Read what makes you question yourself, not what makes you feel good. @orangebook_
- “The devout read their religious texts daily.” ― A.D. Aliwat, In Limbo
- “Read for yourselves, read for the sake of your inspiration, for the sweet turmoil in your lovely head. But also read against yourselves, read for questioning and impotence, for despair and erudition, read the dry sardonic remarks of cynical philosophers like Cioran or even Carl Schmitt, read newspapers, read those who despise, dismiss or simply ignore poetry and try to understand why they do it. Read your enemies, read those who reinforce your sense of what’s evolving in poetry, and also read those whose darkness or malice or madness or greatness you can’t understand because only in this way will you grow, outlive yourself, and become what you are.” ― Adam Zagajewski, A Defense of Ardor: Essays
- Speed reading was made for people who don’t want to read. @AmuseChimp
- “Fiction is a blessing to those of us who suffer from mental illness; I’m sure many would agree. To be able to escape into the minds and hearts of other people, is such a uniquely thrilling experience, that everyone should indulge in this freedom as often as possible. It will not only expand your mind in what is possible, but your heart as well, growing empathy for those who live lives so different from your own.” ― Maddy Kobar, With a Reckless Abandon
- “Do you know where your breakthrough begins? Your breakthrough begins where your excuses ends.” ― Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
- “An intelligent woman is a goldmine! She has the ability to learn, reason and understand things better and faster than her contemporaries. She is competent, alert and can reason out stuffs easily.” ― Agu Jaachynma N.E.