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“A book captures a story within its pages. Not like a specimen pinned out lifelessly for display, but vivid and alive. A whole world lies within the cover, a life waiting to e lived by each new reader.”
― Jay Kristoff, Aurora's End

“Besides which, I really ought to send her a book instead. Though she’s not much of a reader.�� She paused. “Evidence as to her character.”
― Kate Albus, A Place to Hang the Moon

“We begin to read each book not quite knowing if we will see a peacock’s feathers or a baboon’s arse.”
― Kevin Ansbro

“The start of a new novel carried with it a sense of occasion, and the alphabets in Luna’s mind started to shuffle their letters in anticipation. She opened the book and began to read...”
― Kevin Ansbro, In the Shadow of Time

“I resist the urge to scroll through to the end, a tic I've had since I was a kid, when I realized there were too many books in the world and not enough time.”
― Emily Henry, Book Lovers

“What we need is not so much radical writers as we need radical readers!”
― Samuel R. Delany

“…it’s very likely that the sentences I’ll underline in future will be different from the sentences I underlined in the past, when I was in Tangier—you don’t ever step into the same book twice after all.”
― Claire-Louise Bennett, Checkout 19

“I think I'm engaged
To thirty-six women, my harem:
Platonic, bookish, and enraged.”
― Sherman Alexie, War Dances

“It isn’t about how many books you read. What counts is the books you re-read.”
― Karl Kristian Flores, The Goodbye Song

“I wish to write what I want most to read”
― Christina Casino

“The important thing is that people read and enjoy books.”
― theamitkumarswords

“The Readers...
We write to inspire, to move and to share. What is a book without someone to read it? Simply words on a page and nothing more.
~Kali Willows~”
― Kali Willows, Curse of the Dragon's Lair - the Legend of Dragon's Peak

“I took to heart what Isohar had taught us. He said that there are four types of readers. There is the reading sponge, the reading funnel, the reading colander, and the reading sieve. The sponge absorbs everything it comes into contact with; and it is evident he remembers much of it later, too. But he is not able to filter out what is most important. The funnel takes in what he reads at one end, while at the other, everything he's read pours out of him. The strainer lets through the wine and keeps the sediment; he ought not to read at all -- it would be infinitely better if he simply dedicated himself to some manual trade. The sieve, on the other hand, separates out the chaff, to give a result of only the finest grains.

'I want you to be like sieves, and to discard all that is not good or interesting,' Isohar would say to us.”
― Olga Tokarczuk, The Books of Jacob

“A good story was a form of communication, mind to mind, spirit to spirit. It sent life sparking from stranger to stranger, across space, decades and centuries. Human sympathy -- human attention -- had magic in it. Any real story fizzed with sympathy -- the writer's and reader's -- across time, over rows of typographical marks; those low boundary fences of the imagination, hurdled.”
― Alison MacLeod, Tenderness

“Reading is healing. Reading has effects that exceed our expectations.
It calms the mind and purifies it, recharges your energy, expands your horizon, activates brain cells positively, adds to your experience, and releases your stress.
Take a vacation from electronics once in a while and grab a good book to recharge your soul.”
― Noora Ahmed Alsuwaidi

“A book already dies in your hand when you’ve decided what to read next. A page must make us take a wrong turn, a book a new path, an author a new friend, a chapter a shortage of breath, and a lesson a different life.”
― Karl Kristian Flores, The Goodbye Song

“A writer = a worried person picking up a pen, in the face of death, writing to unlimited strangers to say, “Look!”
― Karl Kristian Flores, The Goodbye Song

“Behind every great line is a mirror - reflecting the reader, only meant to agree with him.”
― Laura Chouette

“Read, listen to some music, and let your imagination go wild!!!”
― Avin Prakash, Cross Traps Battle of Transoid

“All reading is interpretation, every reading reveals and is dependent on the circumstances of its reader.”
― Alberto Manguel, La cité des mots: CBC Massey Lectures

“I mean, a book is but a stack of paper until someone reads it. And when someone reads it, they build a house within its pages, so whenever they return to that book, they feel right at home.”
― Caroline George, Dearest Josephine

“Creativity can serve as an anchor in our lives, giving us hope for something beautiful to emerge from the emotional wreckage around us. That’s what I hope my readers will experience in my novels as they escape into another realm...”
― Debra Whiting Alexander, A RIVER FOR GEMMA

“Those who read are exactly like those with sight. Those who don’t read are exactly like those without sight.”
― Nkwachukwu Ogbuagu

“ஒருவகையில், புத்தகங்கள�� வைக்�� இடமில்லா�� நெருக்கடிதான�� புத்தகம் படிப்பதைக் காப்பாற்றி வைத்திருக்கிறத�� என்பேன��. வீட்டில் மிகப�� பெரி�� நாலகங்கள�� அமைத்தவர்கள் அதன்பிறக�� படிப்பதையே விட்�� கதைய�� நான் அறிவேன��. நெருக்கடியான இடத்திற்குள் மறைத்தும�� ஒளித்தும�� சண்டையிட்டும�� சேகரிக்கப்பட்ட புத்தகங்கள�� நம்ம�� மறுபடி வாசிக்கத�� தூண்டுகின்றன.”
― S. Ramakrishnan, இன்றில்ல�� எனினும�� [Indrillai Eninum]

“Would you like to be in his place, to establish that exclusive bond, that communion of inner rhythm that is achieved through a book’s being read at the same time, by two people, as you thought possible with Ludmilla?”
― Italo Calvino, If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler

“Your reading is no longer solitary; you think of the Other Reader, who at this same moment, is also opening the book.”
― Italo Calvino, If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler

“Having books on your shelf does not make you knowledgeable.”
― Sukant Ratnakar, Quantraz

“If people only read but don't write or vice versa, human evolution will slow down.”
― Sukant Ratnakar, Quantraz

“You don’t need to read a book to activate your thoughts. A thought itself is good enough to create a chain reaction of thoughts capable of building a mountain of knowledge.”
― Sukant Ratnakar, Quantraz

“It is a truth universally acknowledged that you could put almost anything in the second half of this sentence, because the first half sounds clever and wise and must remind readers of the genius of Jane Austen.”
― Devoney Looser, The Daily Jane Austen: A Year of Quotes