We are the Bibles the world is reading; We are the creeds the world is needing; We are the sermons the world is heeding..

Books are standing counselors and preachers, always at hand, and always disinterested; having this advantage over oral instructors, that they are rea….

Authors have a greater right than any copyright, though it is generally unacknowledged or disregarded. They have a right to the reader's civility. Th….

My bullshit meter is reading that as 'false'..

In reading we must become creators. Once the child has learned to read alone, and can pick up a book without illustrations, he must become a creator,….

The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of….

Don't ask me who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading all my life..

Plainly, such an approach does not exclude other ways of trying to comprehend the world. Someone committed to it (as I am) can consistently believe (….

Think about every time you've seen someone being objectified, abused, enslaved. We see it constantly on the TV, in magazines, on the Internet. We've ….

We are savages insides. We all want to be the chosen, the beloved, the esteemed. There isn't a person reading this who hasn't at one point or another….

I think reading is part of the birthright of the human being.

Let us assume that entertainment is the sole end of reading; even so I think you would hold that no mental employment is so broadening to the sympath….

For my whole life, my favorite activity was reading. It's not the most social pastime..

For people who are coming out of an oral tradition, it is very exciting to get into reading and writing and it is quite interesting how frequently pe….

I prefer reading novels. Short stories are too much like daggers. And now that I'm done with my collection I'm more interested in different forms of ….

I am too fond of reading books to care to write them..

I cannot sit and think; books think for me..

It is curious how tyrannical the habit of reading is, and what shifts we make to escape thinking. There is no bore we dread being left alone with so ….

I do believe that reading can help you understand what you're writing and see what others are doing. But sometimes the desire for more information ca….

I would never discredit reading the Scriptures, but it is important to meditate on it..

Reading was like an addiction; I read while I ate, on the train, in bed until late at night, in school, where I'd keep the book hidden so I could rea….