The reading of a fine book is an uninterrupted dialogue in which the book speaks and our soul replies..

For those who have only ever read about [John] Calvin, reading the man himself is an invigorating experience..

Life is like a book. There are good chapters, and there are bad chapters. But when you get to a bad chapter, you don’t stop reading the book! If you ….

A bookworm in bed with a new novel and a good reading lamp is as much prepared for pleasure as a pretty girl at a college dance..

Of books in our time the variety is so voluminous, and they follow so fast from the press, that one must be a swift reader to acquaint himself even w….

Books are like mirrors: if a fool looks in, you cannot expect a genius to look out..

Reading, I had learned, was as creative a process as writing, sometimes more so. When we read of the dying rays of the setting sun or the boom and sw….

Don't consider me too demanding if I ask you once again to set great store by holy books and read them as much as you can. This spiritual reading is ….

It is remarkable, but on the whole, perhaps, not to be lamented, that the world is so unkind to a new book. Any distinguished traveler who comes to o….

Not reading poetry amounts to a national pastime here..

She had her addictions and one of them was reading..

Henceforth it will be the task of this Sacred Congregation not only to examine carefully the books denounced to it, to prohibit them if necessary, an….

I still have a struggle reading (dyslexia, fh) and so I don't read much.. ..Probably the only reason I'm painter is because I couldn't read yet I lov….

My grandfather is hard of hearing. He needs to read lips. I don't mind him reading lips, but he uses one of those yellow highlighters..

I consider myself to be a man of principle. But, what man does not? Even the cutthroat, I have noticed, considers his actions "moral" after a fashion….

People ask how I think up my thoughts. Mostly I think them up while reading Paul Simon's lyrics..

There are no taboos. Every topic is open, however shocking. It is the way that the topics are handled that's important, and that applies whether it i….

Writing is a difficult trade which must be learned slowly by reading great authors; by trying at the outset to imitate them; by daring then to be ori….

Let books be your dining table, / And you shall be full of delights. / Let them be your mattress,/And you shall sleep restful nights.

The strange thing, though, is that most people who write novels these days seem to be aware of only a fraction of its possibilities. Kundera goes on ….

There's so much power in allegory, to form ideas and learn lessons that you can actually take and apply to real life. I think that's why I originally….