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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
I'm kind of old-school and love nothing more than sitting, opening a book, and reading it. But I also love listening to audio books.
— Nick Cave
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
And tell them all about the books you've read. Better still, buy some more books and read them. That's an order. You can never read too many books.
— P.B. Kerr
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
[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
Madam Pince, our librarian, tells me that it is 'pawed about, dribbled on, and generally maltreated' nearly everyday - a high compliment for any book.
— J.K. Rowling
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
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
Great land of sublimated things, thou World of Books, happy asyluum, refreshment and refuge from the world of everyday! ...
— H.G.Wells
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
We believed in the existence in this country of a vast reading public for intelligent books at a low price and staked everything on it.
— Allen Lane
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
Books can move people, inspire people, change people's lives, and even impact whole societies. They are certainly worth spending an afternoon with.
— Jan Surasky
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
She had a grocer's faith in books; they can be handed out like Green Stamps and were redeemable for a variety of useful gifts.
— Pat Conroy
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 way
to feel alive. — V.C. Andrews
to feel alive. — V.C. Andrews
This is what books should do: Carry a person and not be carried by him; take the day off his back, not add its own ounces of paper to his vertebrae.
— Erri De Luca
Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes.
— Edward Gibbon
She was happiest when sitting about and reading. She had read thousands of books, seeing no point in doing anything else unless you had to.
— Ruth Rendell
I tend to think of stories and books as being for everyone, just with an 'entry reading age' rather than an age range.
— Garth Nix
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
Read positive books; see positive things and surround yourself with positive thinkers; life will be full with positivity.
— Amit Ray
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
If I am on a journey where I only have time to read one-and-a-half books, I never know which one-and-a-half I'll feel like reading. So I bring eight.
— Tom Stoppard
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
Reading good books implants good ideas in the mind, develops good aspirations, and leads to the cultivation of good friends.
— Mas Oyama
You are what you eat and read.
— Maya Corrigan
Read what you find interesting, and then follow your interests. You'll find that in doing so you always generate enough to illuminate the next step.
— Mark Helprin
Like the roller coaster of life ... novels aren't fun without ups and downs and even an occasional loop.
— Carmen DeSousa
I stretched out my hand towards the little bookshelf where I kept cookery and devotional books, the most comfortable bedside reading.
— Barbara Pym
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