#reading

"There were two sets of double doors leading out of the antechamber, one marked STACKS and the other TOMES. Not knowing the difference between the two, I headed to the ones labeled STACKS. That was what I wanted. Stacks of books. Great heaps of books. Shelf after endless shelf of books."

"A good book will pull you in from the beginning and take you on a journey you'll never forget."

"I do believe that characters in novels belong to their writers and their readers pretty equally. I've learned a lot of things about the characters I write from people who read about them. Readers expand them in ways I don't think of and take them to places I can't go."

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

"An average man is egoistic, proud and has strong self esteem. They always require partners who massage their ego not those who will drag their ego to the mud."

"Before this generation lose the wisdom, one advice - read books."

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

"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."

"I read in self-defense."

"Second hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack."

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

"Some of these things are true and some of them lies. But they are all good stories."

"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."

"The world was hers for the reading."

"Worship is the marriage of two Spirits - the Spirit of God and the Spirit of man."

"Libraries raised me."

"All of us can think of a book... that we hope none of our children or any other children have taken off the shelf. But if I have the right to remove that book from the shelf - that work I abhor - then you also have exactly the same right and so does everyone else. And then we have no books left on the shelf for any of us."

"A fine gentleman like that, they said, had no need of books. Let him leave books, they said, to the palsied or the dying. But worse was to come. For once the disease of reading has laid hold upon the system it weakens it so that it falls an easy prey to that other scourge which dwells in the ink pot and festers in the quill. The wretch takes to writing."

"Reading messed with my brain in an unaccountable way. It made me happy; or something."

"God is not a thief. That which steals, kills and destroys is the devil - not God!"