#reading

"The world exists to end up in a book."

"When was the last time you read a book? The truth now. And picture books don't count-I mean something with print in it."

"Hey, Geekoid!"yelled Duncan Dougal, "Why do you read so much? Don't you know how to watch TV?"

"Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners."

"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."

"My books hold between their covers every story I've ever known and still remember, or have now forgotten, or may one day read; they fill the space around me with ancient and new voices."

"To prohibit the reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves."

"Reading changes your life. Reading unlocks worlds unknown or forgotten, taking travelers around the world and through time. Reading helps you escape the confines of school and pursue your own education. Through characters – the saints and the sinners, real or imagined – reading shows you how to be a better human being."

"Books are not about passing time. They're about other lives. Other worlds. Far from wanting time to pass, one just wishes one had more of it. If one wanted to pass the time one could go to New Zealand."

"For every book you buy, you should buy the time to read it."

"You want to remember that while you're judging the book, the book is also judging you."

"Sleep is good, he said, and books are better."

"A big book is like a serious relationship; it requires a commitment. Not only that, but there's no guarantee that you will enjoy it, or that it will have a happy ending. Kind of like going out with a girl, having to spend time every day with her - with absolutely no guarantee of nailing her in the end. No thanks."

"A confident woman wears a smile and has this air of comfortability and pleasantness about her."

"There is only one genre in fiction, the genre is called book."

"You will find most books worth reading are worth reading twice."

"Reading the Bible will help you get to know the word, but it’s when you put it down and live your life that you get to know the author."

"In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity."

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

"You should write because you love the shape of stories and sentences and the creation of different words on a page. Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write."