Losing Chloe had been like reading a wonderfulook only to realize that all the pages past a certain point were blank.
For all the books in his possession, he still failed to read the stories written plain as day in the faces of the people around him.
A modern philosopher who has never once suspected himself of being a charlatan must be such a shallow mind that his work is probably not worth reading.
At breakfast!' said Louise in an awed voice. 'A man who can read poetry at breakfast would be capable of anything.
Read positive books; see positive things and surround yourself with positive thinkers; life will be full with positivity.
He read because it gave him instant gratification in a way nothing else did,and as was the case with all addicts,gratification was the important thing.
Literature enables us to see our world and ourselves more clearly, to understand our lives more fully.
Reading a good book is an escape to an alternative life, writing a good book is the closest thing to actually living that life.
If you have read 6,000 books in your lifetime, or even 600, it's probably because at some level you find 'reality' a bit of a disappointment.
The man is in his work,read it if you want to know about him.
It is not true that 'we have only one life to live'; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.
How can you read and talk at the same time?” I asked. “Well, I usually can’t, but neither the book nor the conversation is particularly intellectually challenging.
One day someone is going to read my autobiography and say “Wow, what a horror novel
Every reader exists to ensure for a certain book a modest immortality. Reading is, in this sense, a ritual of rebirth.
We could read every book even written on prayer, but that won't make us people of prayer. We learn to pray by doing it.
Read works which glorify God—not so that you can change what others think about you, but so that you may get closer to Him!
I have always believed that poems beg to be read aloud, even if the reader is in a world all her own.
Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.
Diana felt she was beginning to understand why, in all those novels she read, the headiest loves were the loves that couldn't be.
Hey, Geekoid!" yelled Duncan Dougal, "Why do you read so much? Don't you know how to watch TV?
What I read told me that the Mankindman was a strange creature which stand on to legs. It seems to be a man from both sides; maybe all sides are man!
