Don’t set your goals by what other people deem important.
Come to the book as you would come to an unexplored land. Come without a map. Explore it and draw your own map.
Miss a meal if you have to, but don't miss a book.
I read a lot. I love books. If they came in a bottle, I’d be a drunk too.
I have often reflected upon the new vistas that reading has opened to me. I knew right there in prison that reading had changed forever the course of my life. As I see it today, the ability to read awoke inside me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.
So much of one’s life was spent reading; it made sense not to do it alone.
Who needs to go somewhere when you can read about it.
Learning became her. She loved the smell of the book from the shelves, the type on the pages, the sense that the world was an infinite but knowable place. Every fact she learned seemed to open another question, and for every question there was another book.
The peace of God is with them whose mind and soul are in harmony, who are free from desire and wrath, who know their own soul.
Who made you Queen of Literacy? Go sit in your car!
Will I have to use a dictionary to read your book?” asked Mrs. Dodypol. “It depends,” says I, “how much you used the dictionary before you read it.
I regained my soul through literature after those times I’d lost it to wild-eyed gypsy girls on the European streets.
Those who will not read are no better off than those who cannot read.
I think it’s the books that you read when you’re young that live with you forever.
My early and invincible love of reading – I would not exchange for the treasures of India.
At the end of the day your ability to connect with your readers comes down to how you make them feel.
A good book will pull you in from the beginning and take you on a journey you’ll never forget.
Reading is an addiction that I adore.
The thing about me and books is that whichever one I’m reading always reminds me of whatever’s happening in my life during that time.
I’m not a stranger,” I said, and pointed to his book. “I’m someone who reads the same authors you do.