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Every day we hear a little melody,reading a beautiful poem, see a fine painting and,If possible, say the words. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

I love reading Warren Buffett's letters, and I love contrasting his words with his actions. He's a very wise guy. — Daniel S. Loeb

Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly
they'll go through anything. You read and you're pierced. — Aldous Huxley

The words were before him, and yet I thought he wasn't reading them from the paper, but from the pages of his memory, from the open book of his heart. — Diana Gabaldon

There is a line of poetry, a sentence in a fable, a word in an essay, by which my existence is justified; find that line, and immortality is assured. — Alberto Manguel

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

The result of your fifty or sixty years of religious reading in the four words: 'Be just and good,' is that in which all our enquiries must end. — Thomas Jefferson

Most of the words you know and love and use every day are not words you learned by looking them up in a dictionary and reading a definition. — Erin McKean

We live and breathe words. — Cassandra Clare

Reading a stranger's words and finding yourself in them. — Jenim Dibie

A book is a collaboration between the one who reads and what is read and, at its best, that coming together is a love story like any other. — Siri Hustvedt

It was words and reading that had made me quiet, and being quiet had made me a mark. — Charles M. Blow

Reading is like magic--I think I've made my case. Without the gift of words, this world's a crazy place! — Denise Walter McConduit

There are words and words and none mean anything. And then one sentence means everything. — Richard Flanagan

I wanted to crawl in between those black lines of print, the way you crawl through a fence, and go to sleep under that beautiful big green fig-tree. — Sylvia Plath

Working on a green screen set, yeah, it's almost like reading from a novel, taking those black words and creating a world around you. — Caterina Scorsone

Every reader wants the same thing: to open the cover of a book and watch the words explode like fireworks off the page. — Kim Lehman

For Our Purposes, I define "reading" as looking at printed words and getting enough meaning from them to satisfy your purpose. — Peter Kump

Everywhere I have sought peace and not found it, except in a corner with a book. — Thomas A Kempis

There was no mistaking her daughter's handwriting. And the words... "If you're reading this, I'm already dead. — Elizabeth Heiter

How wonderful to be read to. To be carried from this world and into another, born away on words. — Justin Cronin

I was reading this James Bond book, and right away I realized that, like most books, it had too many words. — Dave Barry

A tough life needs a tough language - and that is what poetry is. That is what literature offers - a language powerful enough to say how it is. — Jeanette Winterson

Words are both my vocation and my avocation - reading, writing, editing, teaching. — Christina Baker Kline

Every child should be taught how to read, write and think. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I go to books and to nature as the bee goes to a flower, for a nectar that I can make into my own honey. — John Burroughs

Careful writers pick up the nuances of words by focusing on their makeup and their contexts over the course of tens of thousands of hours of reading. — Steven Pinker

The words are not mere words. They are the breath and mind, perhaps even the soul, of the person who is reading. — Verlyn Klinkenborg

Your reading of these words is very beautiful and, somehow, very sad, because we both know it must end. — Peter Davis

Hold a book in your hand and you're a pilgrim at the gates of a new city. — Anne Michaels

Keep on reading, thinking, doing and writing!
Words keep introducing their friends to you. — Toba Beta

Happy will be those who give ear to the words of the dead: - The reading of good works and the observing of their precepts. — Leonardo Da Vinci

And in a way I have always thought that words are alive a little, for they can whisper sweet nothings and roar dragon flame with equal efficiency. — Lyndsay Faye

As I read you I fell in love with the holes between your words and I loved you most on the days you could not love yourself. — Jenim Dibie

Your words seduced me,captured and imprisoned me in a world of wonders.
Enthralled, I lie at your feet,slayed and yearning for more of your magic. — D.Alma

Mizuko loved reading the dictionary. She liked it when there were multiple meanings for words and when opposite meanings could be contained. — Olivia Sudjic

Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them. — Samuel Butler

Reading ... is a full-contact sport; we crash up against the wave of words with all of our intellectual, imaginative, and emotional resources. — Thomas C. Foster

Read a thousand books, and your words will flow like a river. — Lisa See

Spiritual reading, therefore, is slow, deliberate, meditative reading in which we allow the words to penetrate our heart and question our spirit. — Henri J.M. Nouwen

I grew up in a household where reading was encouraged. My mother believed in the power of words, and my father obviously did too. — Caroline Kennedy

I focus on the words in front of me and continue reading the book that has now turned me into a voyeur through no fault of its own. — Ella Frank

As an actor, you're pretty much a hired gun. You are reading other people's words off of a page and doing what they want you to do. — Corey Feldman

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

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 suppose what one wants really is ideal company and books are ideal company. — Anita Brookner

I started reading the Bible. All of a sudden the words jumped off the page and became real. — Austin Peck

Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary. — Boris Pasternak

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

You read my words and instantly we are both connected — Richard L. Ratliff

Articulate words are a harsh clamor and dissonance. When man arrives at his highest perfection, he will again be dumb. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live. — Annie Dillard

Devote yourself to reading, learning and writing. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Reading leads to knowledge and wise ways of living. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I learned by reading an awful lot and by writing a half a million words of stuff nobody would do anything with except wrap old fish. — Harry Turtledove

If words come alive on the page, the writer succeeds in connecting to the reader. — Aman Jassal

And so he was reading the story as if it were a spell and the words of it, spoken aloud, could make magic happen. — Kate DiCamillo

There wasn't a place I could think of that was more magical than a building bursting with books and stories and words ... — Lindsay Eland

One bright day in the last week of February, I was walking in the park, enjoying the threefold luxury of solitude, a book, and pleasant weather. — Anne Bronte

When you find yourself writing, reading, or listening the delivery of words when spoken? You know the melody of wordplay. "& I love Wordplay — Elijah Cainaan

It is our duty and our joy to communicate our hearts to each other. Words assist us in this task. — Kate DiCamillo

Words create the stories that become history and become unforgettable. — Nina Sankovitch

Although I always loved reading and putting words on paper, I never thought about becoming a writer until I was twelve. — Kimberly Willis Holt

And in his dream, Coyotito was reading from a book as large as a house, with letters as big as dogs, and the words galloped and played on the book. — John Steinbeck

Suddenly, I was reading these comics. I was looking at those bubbles, those dialogue bubbles, and suddenly there were words ... recognizable words. — Philip Schultz

It frustrates me when my mind wanders and when I end up reading the same words again and again. — Rory Bremner

It's cooler you're not reading and, instead, standing close to a hot guy. No truer words were ever spoken. My smile got bigger. — Kristen Ashley

I'm old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised. — Wislawa Szymborska

Tarot helps us look within ourselves to understand our emotions, the reasoning behind our words and conduct, and the source of our conflicts. — Benebell Wen

For me, reading books and writing them are tied together. The words of other writers teach me and refresh me and inspire me. — Betsy Byars

In the electronic age, books, words and reading are not likely to remain sufficiently authoritative and central to knowledge to justify literature. — Bill Vaughan