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...
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...
You're never alone when you're reading a book.
She'd become an English major for the purest and dullest of reasons: because she loved to read.
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...
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 fiction often gives us characters in extremity, which ironically gives us a clearer mirror in which to see ourselves.
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.
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.
Only because books are better than people, Father. ... Because they are masters who instruct without a rod. If you approach them, they are never asleep; if you are ignorant, they never laugh; if you m...
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
Life is too short to read books that I'm not enjoying.
You know that feeling, she said, when you are reading a book, and you know that it is going to be a tragedy; you can feel the cold and darkness coming, see the net drawing tight around the characters...
Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but, most important, it finds homes for us everywhere.
I have learned through dreams more wisdom, than by reading hundreds of books.
Live to read.Read for life.
Instead, I read books in the library, huddling on a bean bag in a corner and getting lost in somebody else's victories and troubles. I never had much time for fiction before. I preferred real life. Ma...