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I have known Farley Mowat all of my life, from reading his books as a child to becoming a close friend of his over the last three decades. — Paul Watson

The ability to read becomes devalued when what one has learned to read adds nothing of importance to one's life. — Bruno Bettelheim

All the reading she had done had given her a view of life that they had never seen. — Roald Dahl

I could spend the rest of my life
READING,
Just satisfying my
CURIOSITY
- because you can hardly mention anything I'm not curious about. — Malcolm X

Life does often get in the way of one's reading. — Helen Simonson

The Book Charm

Your Story Will Never End As Long As Your Chapters Are Shared — Viola Shipman

Reading is a key feature in the life of every single successful person I have ever met. — Mario Batali

I spent my life in the library reading books. — Michael Caine

The things that change your life are: the people you meet, the classes you take, and the books you read. — Jim Rohn

Don't you think it's better to continue reading than to just close the book? — Rebecca McNutt

Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books. — John Ruskin

The Bible is ... as necessary to spiritual life as breath is to natural life. There is nothing more essential to our lives than the Word of God. — Jack W. Hayford

Don't ask me who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading all my life. — Charles De Gaulle

Even Aristotle, master of pure reason, said: 'The friend of wisdom is also a friend of myth. — Bruno Bettelheim

You don't spend your life hanging around books without learning a thing or two. — Lemony Snicket

Given the books of a man, it is not difficult, I think, to detect therein the personality of the man, and the station in life to which he was born. — Richard Henry Stoddard

You can read in the space of a coffin, and you can write in the space of a toolshed meant for mowers and spades. — Annie Dillard

I flip a cognitive coin while reading Dr. Briggs' take on life, theology, science, and the conception of human life. — Asa Don Brown

I remember reading a fascinating article in the New York Times Magazine once where this guy said... Every woman has the exact love life she wants — Elizabeth Young

Oh! I am delighted with the book! I should like to spend my whole life in reading it. — Jane Austen

The journey of life can be travel through experience and reading. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The reading and writing of fiction both requires and instills empathy - the insertion of oneself into the life of another. — Julie Schumacher

Poetry is not the most important thing in life ... I'd much rather lie in a hot bath reading Agatha Christie and sucking sweets. — Dylan Thomas

It's like reading a book about a life that you will never occupy, but that's the beauty of being transported. — Sarah Jessica Parker

The great thing about reading is that it broadens your life — George R R Martin

True fragrance speaks for itself. It does not require to be pointed out by the bearer. — Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi

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

Running and reading are the keys of life. — Will Smith

Reading was such an enrichment of my life. And it was that pleasure that I had as a very young reader probably that is the origin of my vocation. — Mario Vargas-Llosa

If anything has changed about my reading over the years, it is that I value the state a book puts me in more that I value the specific contents. — Sven Birkerts

Reading is the creative center of a writer's life. - — Stephen King

As I got older, I got closer to my faith and I got closer to Jesus, reading the Bible and living my life under God. — Antonio Sabato Jr.

Time flows like memories on the shores of the past. — Michael Joseph Murano

No amount of reading or memorizing will make you successful in life. It is the understanding and application of wise thought that counts. -Bob Proctor — Bob Proctor

The best thing I did in life wasn't learning or reading but training my mind to think effectively. — Robin Sacredfire

I am delighted with the book! I could spend my whole life reading it. - Catherine Morland — Jane Austen

I lived within the cover of books and those books were more real to me than any other thing in my life. — Anna Quindlen

There is a book for every walk of life. No matter the age, race, or gender there is something that will appeal to you. — Carmela Dutra

The reading eye must do the work to make them live, and so it did, again and again, never the same life twice, as the artist had intended. — A.S. Byatt

The Real-World was a sprawling mess of a book in need of a good editor. — Jasper Fforde

There is no substitute for books in the life of a child. (1952)
— Mary Ellen Chase

I often like to enjoy the beauty of a beautiful book. — Debasish Mridha

Sometimes i just get bored live in real life, so i will hide my self in to the fiction by writing and reading, then comeback to real life as new me. — Vindri Prachmitasari

Life is full of wonderful passions that come and go over the years, but the only one that will never let you down is reading. — Judith Martin

Bring on the controversy. I write real life. It's harsh and sometimes gritty, but it's real. Why should we tip toe around that? — Shandy L. Kurth

I tried to convey to the boy how people's lives are often altered by curved lines read slowly from paper, sand, or stone. — Simon Van Booy

I live in paradise within the pages of a book. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Reading is the only area of my life in which I prefer to be non-autonomous. — Sophie Hannah

A fondness for reading changes the inevitable dull hours of our life into exquisite hours of delight. — Baron De Montesquieu

To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life. — W. Somerset Maugham

Reading is like a bridge which fills the gap between the real world and the imaginations. — Aman Jassal

I have lived in worlds beyond counting and countries as strange and wonderful as the dance of dust in sunbeams, because I have lived in books. — Garon Whited

Books have the power to change and transform your life like few other things you have. — John Patrick Hickey

Take a deep breath, open your eyes, and close the book. — Gabriel Ba

Voracious reading was like an anesthesia, numbing me to the harsh life around me. — Mark Mathabane

The time comes in life when we have read enough. It's time to stop reading. It's time to lay down the books and write. — Albert Einstein

And because the world is too big and time is too short and you only have one life to live, read! — A.A. Patawaran

Reading is a protest against the insufficiencies of life — Mario Vargas-Llosa

Life is not a piece of tragic fiction in which, at the end of the reading, we all get up and go out for drinks. — Marianne Williamson

I think books are like people, in the sense that they'll turn up in your life when you most need them. — Emma Thompson

I have been using art as a means to the emotions of life and reading into it the ideas of life. — Clive Bell

The clerisy are those who seek, and find, delight and enlargement of life in books. The clerisy are those for whom reading is a personal art. — Robertson Davies

Even a dull life could make worthwhile reading, he said, provided the writer paid sufficient attention to detail. — Susan Hubbard

The forbidden things were a great influence on my life. I was forbidden from reading A Catcher in the Rye. — Amy Tan

All books are escapism. They are life with the boring bits cut out. — Jean Chapman

The Bible is the greatest literature of all times. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The second I learned to read in first grade, when I was 5, I preferred it to life. And I still do. — Fran Lebowitz

Things change, friends leave. And life doesn't stop for anybody. — Stephen Chbosky

To imagine wasn't to escape but to go deeper; to see through to the secret life of the world. — Alison MacLeod

You're reading one of those books in which the author is in love with the reader. My life. — Saleem Sharma

Hold fast to the word of God. — Lailah Gifty Akita

All writers begin as readers, and the ones worth reading continue life as more prolific readers than writers. — Thomas Swick

Oh no, real life is escape. The great terrors, the horrors
we hope
of your life come from reading fiction. — Orson Scott Card

To be better equipped for the tests that the year will bring - read a textbook. To prepare for the tests that life will bring - read a book. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Meredith immersed herself in the novels. For some reason, fiction hit on the meaning of life so much more concisely than real life itself did. — Elin Hilderbrand

I read the way a person might swim, to save his or her life. I wrote that way too. — Mary Oliver

As a writer, the main skill you need is curiosity. As a reader, the main tool you need is open-mindedness. — Gloria D. Gonsalves

Be careful not to become narrow-minded, or afraid of reading what is well written, quite the contrary, such writings are a source of comfort in life. — Vincent Van Gogh

Life is like reading a book ... Sometimes when you need to move forward you just have to start the next chapter. — Christie Cote

You create and plan your thought by seeing, reading and hearing the right things. — Jaachynma N.E. Agu

A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive. — Erica Jong

Only a book is enough to change the course of your life. — Aman Jassal

If a book can save - redeem us from the mediocrity of the mundane - surely, there must be a God. — Chila Woychik

I love the paradise of being between the pages of a book. — Lailah Gifty Akita

If you begin to read, you find the answers you seek. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Your life is a message someone is reading every day. Give a bold message of God's great love and the greatness we are designed for! #BEMORE — Sandi Krakowski

Turn the page, your heroine is still there, breathe, relax, life is beautiful: you're in a book! — Gabrielle Dubois

Let's get it over and the door closed shut on it! Let's close it like a book and go on reading! New chapter, new life. — John Steinbeck

I read a book one day and my whole life was changed. — Orhan Pamuk

My goal is to encourage our little ones to make reading a habit. To enjoy picking up a book. So that the habit continues throughout life. — Andrea L'Artiste

If you cannot find yourself on the page very early in life, you will go looking for yourself in all the wrong places. — Richard Peck

And so in addition to lots of reading, the life of an editor involves constantly trying to get others to read as well. — Keith Gessen

For some, perhaps for many, books are spare time. For me, the rest of life is spare time: I wake and sleep language. It has always been so. — Jeanette Winterson

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. — Steve Maraboli

Inspiration for what we produce comes from reading, observing the world of humans around us and also the animal kingdom — Walt Disney Company

The zeal to pray and desire to read the scriptures can transform many lives. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Being blind is the worst possible thing and asking me to read and write no more is torture. — Jessica E. Larsen

Because reading is one of the joys of life, and once you begin, you can't stop, and you've got so many stories to look forward to. — Benedict Cumberbatch

Wishing you the best adventures in reading and in life! — Sass Cadeaux

Reading a good book is an escape to an alternative life, writing a good book is the closest thing to actually living that life. — Chas Scott