Karl Marx said, “The task is not just to understand the world but to change it.” A variant to keep in mind is that if you want to change the world yo….

I much prefer working with kids whose life could be completely upended by a reading of a book over a weekend. You give them a book to read - they go ….

You have to be very clear with yourself about how you're going to spend your time. When a child is at school or napping, you need to realize that thi….

Books shouldn't be daunting, they should be funny, exciting and wonderful..

My feeling about school was that it interfered with my reading..

"Death," said Akiva. His life was leaving him fast now that he no longer held his wound. His eyes just wanted to drift closed. "I'm ready." "Well, I'….

The joke in our family is that we can cry reading the phone book..

The newest books are those that never grow old..

Written on the body is a secret code only visible in certain lights: the accumulations of a lifetime gather there. In places the palimpsest is so hea….

If men were to be destroyed and the books they have written were to be transmitted to a new race of creatures, in a new world, what kind of record wo….

We should read history as little critically as we consider the landscape, and be more interested by the atmospheric tints and various lights and shad….

Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man..

The man whose bosom neither riches nor luxury nor grandeur can render happy may, with a book in his hand, forget all his torments under the friendly ….

Reading is everything. Reading makes me feel like I've accomplished something, learned something, become a better person. Reading makes me smarter. R….

Give the villagers village arithmetic, village geography, village history and the literary knowledge that they must use daily, i.e. reading and writi….

I was really unfit last year, so I worked out for a long time, then spent time by myself in Oregon. For about two months the only person I saw was m….

I believe in choosing the hardest book imaginable. I believe in reading up on what others have to say about this difficult book, and then making up m….

I was reading that lightning is a negative charge that comes from the friction that clouds carry. And since opposites attract, I would like to think ….

Does there, I wonder, exist a being who has read all, or approximately all, that the person of average culture is supposed to have read, and that not….

I've been reading Ed Brubaker comics since the first appearance of Ed Brubaker comics and every single time he announces a new title I mutter to myse….

A novel must be exceptionally good to live as long as the average cat..