#reading

"I even love the smell of books."

"I’ll bet opening a store called Boobs and Books would increase literacy. I prefer a hands-on approach to learning."

"She would go off in the morning with the punt full of books, and spend long glorious days away in the forest lying on the green springy carpet of whortleberries, reading. She would most diligently work at furnishing her empty mind. She would sternly endeavour to train it not to jump."

"Some say life is the thing, but I prefer reading."

"A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one."

"I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read."

"Easy reading is damn hard writing."

"One of the great things about books is sometimes there are some fantastic pictures."

"The true birthplace is that wherein for the first time one looks intelligently upon oneself; my first homelands have been books, and to a lesser degree schools."

"To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life."

"Even a book can be dangerous in the wrong hands, and when that happens, you blame the hands, but you also read the book."

"If a book is well written, I always find it too short."

"God is never tired of bringing the sun out every morning, taking it in the evenings and bringing out the moon."

"If you truly love a book, you should sleep with it, write in it, read aloud from it, and fill its pages with muffin crumbs."

"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."

"I regained my soul through literature after those times I'd lost it to wild-eyed gypsy girls on the European streets."

"Inexperience people think that books will lead the one of intellect to understanding. But the ignoramus doesn't know that in these books are ambiguos that will confuse even the most intelligent of people. If you try to learn this knowledge without a teacher you will go astray and affairs will become so confusing to you that you will be more astray than Toma*, the physician.*توما الحكيم"

"Books are love letters (or apologies) passed between us, adding a layer of conversation beyond our spoken words."

"There are books so alive that you're always afraid that while you weren't reading, the book has gone and changed, has shifted like a river; while you went on living, it went on living too, and like a river moved on and moved away. No one has stepped twice into the same river. But did anyone ever step twice into the same book?"

"I can read lips. Especially if they have words tattooed on them."