It is equally important to learn from experience and from books.
A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition. Like money, books must be kept in constant circulation... A book is not only a friend, it makes friends for you. When you have possessed a book with...
There is something magical about losing yourself in a world that doesn't exist.
If you are not reading and thinking, it means that your windows looking to the ocean are closed!
She'd become an English major for the purest and dullest of reasons: because she loved to read.
A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.
When I read a book, I put in all the imagination I can, so that it is almost like writing the book as well as reading it - or rather, it is like living it. It makes reading so much more exciting
Books allow you to open doors, and chapters allow you to explore
Above all mediums, through which storytelling is conveyed, none has the potential to draw us in, to hold us spellbound, but the unassuming book.
There is something to be said about the sense of accomplishment the reader feels when finishing a book in one sitting.
Good books last longer than blog posts, which fade into cyberspace, hoping that a Google search will bring them to light again one day. And they shape a higher purpose in shaping a reader....Read book...
Never read a book that is not a year old.
Reading is a breezy journey to enjoy, not a whirlwind to escape!
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.
I have learned through dreams more wisdom, than by reading hundreds of books.
Good fiction often gives us characters in extremity, which ironically gives us a clearer mirror in which to see ourselves.
And if our book consumption remains as low as it has been, at least let us admit that it is because reading is a less exciting pastime than going to the dogs, the pictures or the pub, and not because...
Meggie thought this first whisper sounded a little different from one book to another, depending on weather or not she already knew the story it was going to tell her.
Description is what makes the reader a sensory participant in the story. Good description is a learned skill,one of the prime reasons you cannot succeed unless you read a lot and write a lot. It's not...
A good book...leaves you wanting to reread the book. A great book compels you to reread your own soul.