- “Maybe this is why we read, and why in moments of darkness we return to books: to find words for what we already know.” ― Alberto Manguel, A Reading Diary: A Passionate Reader’s Reflections on a Year of Books
- “The devout read their religious texts daily.” ― A.D. Aliwat, In Limbo
- “هو لا يفهم أن نفسيتي كإناء من “الكريستال” الرقيق تكفيه نقرة جافة ليتصدع إلى الأبد. لا، هو لا يفهم أن جهود حياته بأكملها لن تعيد الإناء إلى نقاءه الأصلي.” ― كوليت خوري, أيام معه
- “The place trembled with sound. I didn’t need to do anything. They would do it all. But you had to be careful. Drunk as they were they could immediately detect any false gesture, any false word. You could never underestimate an audience. They had paid to get in; they had paid for drinks; they intended to get something and if you didn’t give it to them they’d run you right into the ocean.” ― Charles Bukowski, Women
- “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
- “No, I am not imagining a book-burning, warmongering, anti-intellectual fascist regime – in my plan, there is no place for re ghters who light up the Homers and Lady Murasakis and Cao Xueqins stashed under your bed – because, for starters, I’m not banning literature per se. I’m banning the reading of literature. Purchasing and collecting books and other forms of literature remains perfectly legitimate as long as you don’t peruse the literature at hand.” ― Kyoko Yoshida
- The vast majority of value will come from a deep study of a few great books. Johnny Uzan
- “Books do pretend …but squeezed in between is even more that is true—without what you may call the lies, the pages would be too light for the truth, you see?” ― Matthew Pearl, The Last Dickens
- “Reading good literature is an experience of pleasure…but it is also an experience of learning what and how we are, in our human integrity and our human imperfection, with our actions, our dreams, and our ghosts, alone and in relationships that link us to others, in our public image and in the secret recesses of our consciousness.” ― Mario Vargas Llosa
- “A good book leaves you better than the way it found you.” ― Craig D. Lounsbrough
- “I am always chilled and astonished by the would-be writers who ask me for advice and admit, quite blithely, that they “don’t have time to read.” This is like a guy starting up Mount Everest saying that he didn’t have time to buy any rope or pitons.” ― Stephen King
- “Unlike television, reading does not swallow the senses or dictate thought. Reading stimulates the ecology of the imagination. Can you remember the wonder you felt when first reading The Jungle Book or Tom Sawyer or Huckleberry Finn? Kipling’s world within a world; Twain’s slow river, the feel of freedom and sand on the secret island, and in the depths of the cave?” ― Richard Louv, Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder
- “The Minotaur lacks confidence in his penmanship. Over time the Minotaur has learned to read, has even been able to make the slow laborious transition from one language to another as cultures die off and fade away as he moves from place to place. But the Minotaur has never been able to rise above rudimentary skills. Most books seem ridiculously small, and the physical act of finding a comfortable sight line over his massive snout frustrates him. Nevertheless the Minotaur is haunted by the idea that books and reading might make those vast stretches of time that loom before him more bearable.” ― Steven Sherrill, The Minotaur Takes a Cigarette Break
- “What one wrote playfully, another reads with tension and passion; what one wrote with tension and passion, another reads playfully.” ― Paul Valéry
- “A precious, mouldering pleasure ’t is To meet an antique book, In just the dress his century wore; A privilege, I think.” ― Emily Dickinson, The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
- “Read to escape reality . . . Write to embrace it.” ― Stephanie Connolly
- “I love the way words and pictures work together on a page. I have also noticed how when wise words have visuals added to them, they seem to travel further online, like paper aeroplanes catching an updraught.” ― Chris Riddell, Art Matters
- If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all. Oscar Wilde
- “It wasn’t that time stopped in the library. It was as if it were captured, collected here, and in all libraries — and not only my time, my life, but all human time as well. In the library, time is dammed up–not just stopped but saved.” ― Susan Orlean, The Library Book
- “You must continue learning to increase in learning.” ― Lailah Gifty Akita
- “… a writer concocts a different story for every reader.” ― Mike Bryan, The Afterword: A Novel
- “That you are a born again Christian does not mean you will automatically succeed except you follow God’s principles. Never forget faith without good work is dead.” ― Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
- “I won’t be sad too often,If they bury me in the libraryWith bookworms in my coffin.” ― J. Patrick Lewis
- “The only end of writing is to enable readers better to enjoy life or better to endure it.” ― Samuel Johnson
- “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
- “Let All Your Life’s Experiences Lead To More Writing & Encourage More Reading..!” ― Sujit Lalwani, Life Simplified!
- Your mind automatically generates thoughts related to the information you consume. Be conscious of your information diet. Michael (@mmay3r)
- “Luckily, I have music and books to calm the pandemonium in my head.” ― Maude Julien, The Only Girl in the World
- “The literary man re-reads, other men simply read.” ― C.S. Lewis, On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature
- Since you’re not reading to pass an exam, long-term retention is the ultimate goal. Johnny Uzan