If it is not strong upon your heart to practice what you read, to what end do you read? To increase your own condemnation? If your light and knowledge be not turned into practice, the more knowing a m...
Drop everithing and read.
I am lost in the world of books. So many books to read.
As a writer, the main skill you need is curiosity. As a reader, the main tool you need is open-mindedness.
I read used books because fingerprint-smudged and dog-eared pages are heavier on the eye. Because every book can belong to many lives. Books should be kept in public places and step out with passersby...
I am thankful to my teachers who taught me how to read.
You can be a writer who doesn't read everyday. But you're not fooling anyone. It shows, rather embarrassingly, in your work.
A man who does not read miss great wisdom.
I spend money on convenient, comfortable and luxurious things; I spend money on books too.
The act of reading is a skill that can be cultivated.
You read too much. Daemon exhaled slowly. [...]There’s no such thing as that.
I have found that reading is much better than a good sleep.
Reading is weightlifting for the brain
I love pleasure of reading, writing and dancing.
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.
In great thick dusty books he readAnd hardly ever went to bedBefore it was eleven.-
A neighbor once told me he had trouble with García Márquez’s novel because he likes to drink while he reads, and 'The Autumn of the Patriarch' gave him no space in which to take a sip of his beer.
I believe we have an obligation to read for pleasure, in private and in public places. If we read for pleasure, if others see us reading, then we learn, we exercise our imaginations. We show others th...
Naturally, since I myself am a writer, I do not wish the ordinary reader to read no modern books. But if he must read only the new or only the old, I would advise him to read the old.
The reader, the booklover, must meet his own needs without paying too much attention to what his neighbors say those needs should be.