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There is pleasure from learning the simple truth, and there is a pleasure from learning that the truth is not simple.
— Wayne C. Booth
Like most-maybe all- writers, I learned to write by writing and, by example, by reading books.
— Francine Prose
I was raised among books, making invisible friends in pages that seemed cast from dust and whose smell I carry on my hands to this day.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
You cannot force me to make my wishes now" She squared her shoulders and looked at him. "I've read texts.
— Melissa Marr
Reading literature and engaging in writing breaks through the mental rigidity that experience and repetition breeds.
— Kilroy J. Oldster
We live and breathe words.
— Cassandra Clare
He who doesn't see the essence of books shall surely be ruled by those who find and value the real essence of books.
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Sleep is highly overrated, Marmee; especially when there are books to be read. I shall sleep when I am dead and have enough of it.
— H.L. Stephens
Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books.
— John Ruskin
I prefer reading e-books on a high resolution LCD screen - like the iPod Touch's - although the pixel density could and should be much higher.
— Nicholson Baker
Four great adventures; read, learn, write and travel.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Many of the greatest books are like a forest. The best way to get to know them is to wander right into the middle and get lost.
— Anthony Esolen
From fire, water, the passage of time, neglectful readers, and the hand of the censor, each of my books has escaped to tell me its story.
— Alberto Manguel
Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own.[The Sick Chamber (The New Monthly Magazine , August 1830)] — William Hazlitt
Spending one hour with Isaias is far more worthwhile, rewarding and enlightening than reading ten books
— Meles Zenawi
Do you love tragedies and everything that breaks the heart?
— Friedrich Nietzsche
It's strange because sometimes, I read a book, and I think I am the people in the book.
— Stephen Chbosky
If time heals all wounds, and a book can hold a person's entire life, then you can speed up the process with a pulp time warp.
— Deb Caletti
Never underestimate the power of giving a book!
— Carmela Dutra
Perhaps one of my favorite things about travelling is getting to mark and observe other readers.
— Rachel Heffington
He looked at the books, and she wanted to say, 'Stop that,' as though he were reading her diary.
— Elizabeth Strout
She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.
— Annie Dillard
BIG books are better. There, I said it and it's true.
— Richelle E. Goodrich
If the crowns of all the kingdoms of the empire were laid down at my feet in exchange for my books and my love of reading I would spurn them all.
— Francois Fenelon
It doesn't matter if you prefer reading James Joyce or "James and the Giant Peach." Those who read more read better.
— Danny Brassell
The best gift you can give me is a book.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The reading of many books brings wisdom, and the reading of one brings ignorance armed with rage and hatred.
— Danilo Kis
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I have gone to [this bookshop] for years, always finding the one book I wanted - and then three more I hadn't known I wanted.
— Mary Ann Shaffer
Every new book we read in our brief and busy lives means that a classic is left unread.
— B.R. Myers
Reading is the basic springboard for learning. And books provide the liftoff. They are the great equalizer, opening up new worlds to everyone.
— Mary Pope Osborne
Books and doors are the same thing. You open them, and you go through into another world.
— Jeanette Winterson
A child I was fond of reading, and all the little money that came into my hands was ever laid out in books.
— Benjamin Franklin
Some men borrow books; some men steal books; and others beg presentation copies from the author.
— James Jeffrey Roche
I finished all the math books by third grade and most of the reading books. So I was considered disruptive.
— Tyrone Hayes
I just got out of the hospital. I was in a speed reading accident. I hit a book mark and flew across the room.
— Steven Wright
To dream of afar, to chase a star, to believe in Captain Hook. To dance with bears and have no cares, this is the magic of a book.
— H.L. Stephens
Every reader has found charms by which to secure possession of a page that, by magic, becomes as if never read before, fresh and immaculate.
— Alberto Manguel
A book need never die and should not be killed; books were the immortal part of man.
— Robert A. Heinlein
-Books were once cherished belongings of people, that they weren't always just neglected and collecting dust.
— Barbara Hodgson
I think of my own work as part of a decades-long conversation about books and reading with people I will mainly never meet.
— Michael Dirda
Drop everithing and read.
— Emma Roberts
I grew up reading Stephen King, Peter Straub, Clive Barker, Robert McCammon, Isaac Asimov's nonfiction books, and Roald Dahl.
— Nnedi Okorafor
Book and reader, if they meet up at the right moment, it can make sparks fly, set you alight, change your life. It can, I promise you.
— Sophie Divry
Books are in the mind, Grandfather Alessandro said. Too many books and you forget your body is in the world.
— Tom Spanbauer
I grew up reading 'Sense and Sensibility' and 'Pride and Prejudice' - girly kind of books.
— Leighton Meester
Keep reading books, but remember that a book's only a book, and you should learn to think for yourself.
— Maxim Gorky
I'm a fastidious bookman and have never liked reading books with library markings or other messy defects.
— Larry McMurtry
We lose ourselves in what we read, only to return to ourselves, transformed and part of a more expansive world.
— Judith Butler
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
Through books Cathy and I have lived a zillion lives ... our vicarious wayto feel alive. — V.C. Andrews
Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes.
— Edward Gibbon
On the whole, I don't like reading long books. I'm not a fan of 'Ulysses.' And I haven't quite finished 'War and Peace.'
— Vikram Seth
There are two kinds of books. Those that no one reads and those that no one ought to read.
— H.L. Mencken
As a youngster I was a great dreamer, reading many books of adventure and walking lonely miles with my head in the clouds.
— Edmund Hillary
And books -- she swallows like dumplings.
— Sholem Aleichem
I've been changed watching films or reading books or hearing music, and that helps you to live your life.
— Juliette Binoche
Books are so strong, you can break their spines and they will still stand for eternity.
— Donald J. Bingle
I shall keep my book on the table here, and read a little every morning as soon as I wake, for I know it will do me good, and help me through the day.
— Louisa May Alcott
she had been moping around school, not wanting to do anything besides painting and reading books.
— Kim Richardson
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.
— Kurt Vonnegut
Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.
— Boris Pasternak
You are what you eat and read.
— Maya Corrigan
Like the roller coaster of life ... novels aren't fun without ups and downs and even an occasional loop.
— Carmen DeSousa
It is equally important to learn from experience and from books.
— Eraldo Banovac
I'm the same way about the bookshop. You know, I walk around and I feel the whole world is in there, the most important stories of all time.
— Caroline Kepnes
Five more minutes of reading this and she'd have been in a coma.
— Kelly Armstrong
The walls of books around him, dense with the past, formed a kind of insulation against the present world and its disasters.
— Ross Macdonald
I'm a voice for children's books and children's reading.
— Malorie Blackman
There's no such thing as a kid who hates reading. There are kids who love reading, and kids who are reading the wrong books.
— James Patterson
Reading always calmed me down: filling my head with other - made up - people's problems and conflicts made my own seem less terrible, less real.
— Heather James
You should always have 2 books ... the one you're reading and the one you're writing.
— Sterling W. Sill
When you learn to read you will be born again ... and you will never be quite so alone again.
— Rumer Godden
Before you sleep, read something that is exquisite, and worth remembering.
— Desiderius Erasmus