Reading a book is an intimate experience that can change people's lives in profound ways. It also changes the life of its author.
You should've thought of that before becoming a fireman.Thought! he said. Was I given a choice? I was raised to think the best thing in the world to read. The best thing is television and radio and b...
Take a glass of wine while reading, your feet on the back of your slave. This is the best combination of pleasures that is.
It wasn't until I started writing that I found a whole new appreciation for reading.
Judge a book by the way you feel after you read the last page.
Life is too short to read books that I'm not enjoying.
You're never alone when you're reading a book.
Read a good book every day. Books help to educate the soul. The mere joy of learning something new will instill the will to live in you.
Reading that pleases and profits, that together delights and instructs, has all that one should desire.
Live to read.Read for life.
A book may be regarded as irrelevant until it's relevance, importance and purpose is discovered through reading
Reading a book is like living a deep and fulfilling life. Watching a movie is like being a paralyzed person: watching others live their lives while you observe from the sidelines.
My interest in reading novels of various fiction was roused at a very early age. And the thought-provoking storylines of the great Donald Goines had been included in my very first library collection....
A novel, like a myth or any great work of art, can become an initiation that helps us to make a painful rite of passage from one phase of life, one state of mind, to another. A novel, like a myth, tea...
We are not reading books merely to check off a list or to be able to say we have read them. We are reading to grow as persons, to know more that we may understand more, and ultimately, it is to be hop...
I read. The more you read, the more the world opens up to you... and the happier you are and more comforted you feel. It's up to you. No you is educated who cannot educate himself.
There is no other escape like a book. Reading expands your mind and opens your world to a myriad of possibilities.
The way a book is read- which is to say,the qualities a reader brings to a book- can have as much to do with its worth as anything the author puts into it.
Only a reader can understand how a book with 100 pages can be too long and one with 1000 pages can be too short.
The thing about books was, the more you read and liked them, the more you wanted to have on hand to read. Before you knew it you needed more bookshelves, and then all of the sudden they filled your ho...