Reading that pleases and profits, that together delights and instructs, has all that one should desire.
Never judge a book by its movie.
Reading is important, because if you can read, you can learn anything about everything and everything about anything.
There is no other escape like a book. Reading expands your mind and opens your world to a myriad of possibilities.
Drop everithing and read.
(...) perfectly ordinary books, printed on commonplace paper in mundane ink. It would be a mistake to think that they weren't also dangerous, just because reading them didn't make fireworks go off in...
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...
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...
A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.
And now if you'll excuse me, I should like to finish my book, alone, without the presence of a single ringleted girl to disrupt me. If you should come for me at dinner and find me in my chair, gone to...
Books don't change people; paragraphs do, Sometimes even sentences.
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...
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.
I, on the other hand, believe that books, maps, scissors, and Scotch tape dispensers are all unreliable vagrants, likely to take off for parts unknown unless strictly confined to quarters.
Literacy: Blessing? Or curse?
Maybe this is why we read, and why in moments of darkness we return to books: to find words for what we already know.
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.
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....
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.
When I began writing The Night Bookmobile, it was a story about a woman's secret life as a reader. As I worked it also became a story about the claims that books place on their readers, the imbalance...
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