#reading

"I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book."

"Literature is the safe and traditional vehicle through which we learn about the world and pass on values from on generation to the next. Books save lives."

"Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home."

"In a bookstore you can find me in the romance section, because I’m not a lover, I’m a reader."

"Hold a book in your hand and you're a pilgrim at the gates of a new city."

"Old books that we have known but not possessed cross our path and invite themselves over. New books try to seduce us daily with tempting titles and tantalizing covers."

"You are not permitted to suffer what others suffer, you are not permitted to fail or die young."

"Closed in a room, my imagination becomes the universe, and the rest of the world is missing out."

"Books can truly change our lives: the lives of those who read them, the lives of those who write them. Readers and writers alike discover things they never knew about the world and about themselves."

"Soon enough his head would be swimming with tales of derring-do and high adventure, tales of beautiful maidens kissed, of evildoers shot with pistols or fought with swords, of bags of gold, of diamonds as big as the tip of your thumb, of lost cities and of vast mountains, of steam-trains and clipper ships, of pampas, oceans, deserts, tundra."

"The choice is yours. Don't let your pronouncements destroy your destiny rather let them build your future up!"

"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."

"When a reader falls in love with a book, it leaves its essence inside him, like radioactive fallout in an arable field, and after that there are certain crops that will no longer grow in him, while other, stranger, more fantastic growths may occasionally be produced."[Books vs. Goons, L.A. Times, April 24, 2005]"

"A censor is an expert in cutting remarks. A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to."

"The book thief has struck for the first time – the beginning of an illustrious career."

"By reading the writings of the most interesting minds in history, we meditate with our own minds and theirs as well. This is to me is a miracle."

"Don't let any situation intimidate you anymore, don't accept defeat anymore."

"Because even among contrarians, I’m a contrarian. But all of this is just words of bronze, third place rhetoric. What do I really mean when I say we want to shock society into awareness? Do we mean we want more originality and individuality? Less TV, more reading, writing, actual thinking? Less sheep, more shepherd pie? Yes, yes, and a little more pie, please. Oh, and some more sweet tea, too"

"Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind."

"Fiction should be a place of lollipops and escape. Real life is depressing enough--I, for one, don't want to read about make believe misery, too."