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“As I go to bed, I think how awful it would be to die in the middle of reading a good novel.”
― Valérie Perrin, Cambiare l'acqua ai fiori

“What you know is not always important.”
― Walter Tevis , The Queen's Gambit

“If it were up to me, every child would have a year in the library before they went to school.”
― Sally Hepworth, The Good Sister

“Recommending a book to someone is the second best thing to buying it for them, which is the second best thing to reading it for them.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“If you can speak what you will never hear,—if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare things”
― Henry David Thoreau, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

“But a vague hunger would come over me for books, books that opened up new avenues of feeling and seeing...”
― Richard Wright, Black Boy

“Reading should be like dining at a buffet, you have a lot to choose from: fiction, poetry, graphic novels, and more. There are books galore! Eat them all up!”
― Lisa Fipps

“Some men think more than they read. Others read more than they think. Those who practice both, grow wise. Those who follow neither, remain ignorant.”
― John Leland

“Some men think more than they read. Others read more than they think. Those who practice both, grow wise. Those who follow neither, remain ignorant.â€�
~John Leland (1830)”
― John Leland (1830)

“A book can be read to you, not for you.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Unlike that of a society, the spiritual or intellectual awakening of a person is irreversible.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“A good book is the plectrum with which our else silent lyres are struck”
― Henry David Thoreau, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

“-Men De har virkelig lest meget; - der kan De se hvor skadelig det er!”
― Maxim Gorky, Gorky's Tolstoy and Other Reminiscences: Key Writings by and about Maxim Gorky

“Jeg hadde aldri et inntrykk av - og jg tror at jeg ikke tar feil - at Lev Nikolaevitsj ikke var særlig glad i Ã¥ tale om litteratur; men han var alltid levende interessert i forfatterens person.”
― Maxim Gorky, Reminiscences (of Leo Tolstoy; Anton Chekhov; Leonid Andreyev; Alexander Blok; & Letter to Constantin Stanislavsky)

“-Det er ikke sant, slikt skriver man bare i kloke bøker.”
― Maxim Gorky, Reminiscences (of Leo Tolstoy; Anton Chekhov; Leonid Andreyev; Alexander Blok; & Letter to Constantin Stanislavsky)

“-men Gorkij leser for meget; heller ikke det er bra - det kommer av manglende selvtillit.”
― Maxim Gorky, Reminiscences of Tolstoy, Chekhov and Andreev

“there was something intelligent…and slightly terrifying behind those eyes. But it was the sort of terrifying that begged to be explored, like a book with an interesting title. She was one of those titles that, once you had seen it, called for you to thumb through the pages to read a paragraph here and there; before you knew it, you were marching in obedient lockstep with the lines of print as they led you to battle the demons of the writer’s tormented soul.”
― Stanley Wheeler, Smoke

“Any subject, act, or event, that is worthy of record, is worth reading; but much time is spent, and much labor lost, in writing, printing, and reading, what makes men neither wiser nor better.”
― John Leland (1754-1841)

“Despite the demanding nature of his schedule, Lee is a voracious reader. "I read everywhere," he says. "I have a great reading chair, and I read in bed- a terrible habit for my neck and my eyes. But I find it calming: It's a different part of my brain, unlike the way I take in other media, and I think I retain information better.”
― Nina Freudenberger, Bibliostyle: How We Live at Home with Books

“Ever Since I Discovered How Reading Stimulates The Mind's Imagination, I Have Never Stopped Reading”
― James Hauenstein

“I let out a sigh as I read, trying to forget everything for a few hours as I dove into a fictional world where monsters didn’t haunt me, where fathers didn’t leave their kids to starve, and where I didn’t pine for a boy who had been thrown in my life by circumstance, who I may not ever get to love me back.”
― Kate Vianne Sheridan, Thrones of Ash and Arrows

“Books are opened to open some doors and to keep some closed”
― Isaac Nash, LOVE EXIST

“The most heartening response came not from the book pages in the press
but from real incidents in the streets. The girl who was quietly reading Open
Veins to her companion in a bus in Bogotá, and finally stood up and read it
aloud to all the passengers. The woman who fled from Santiago in the days of
the Chilean bloodbath with this book wrapped inside her baby's diapers. The
student who went from one bookstore to another for a week in Buenos Aires's
Calle Corrientes, reading bits of it in each store because he hadn't the money to
buy it.
And the most favorable reviews came not from any prestigious critic but
from the military dictatorships that praised the book by banning it. For example,
Open Veins is unobtainable either in my country, Uruguay, or in Chile; in
Argentina the authorities denounced it on TV and in the press as a corrupter of
youth, As Blas de Otero remarked, "They don't let people see what I write
because I write what I see.”
― Eduardo Galeano, Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent

“The most heartening response came not from the book pages in the press but from real incidents in the streets. The girl who was quietly reading Open Veins to her companion in a bus in Bogotá, and finally stood up and read it aloud to all the passengers. The woman who fled from Santiago in the days of the Chilean bloodbath with this book wrapped inside her baby's diapers. The student who went from one bookstore to another for a week in Buenos Aires's Calle Corrientes, reading bits of it in each store because he hadn't the money to buy it.
And the most favorable reviews came not from any prestigious critic but from the military dictatorships that praised the book by banning it. For example, Open Veins is unobtainable either in my country, Uruguay, or in Chile; in Argentina the authorities denounced it on TV and in the press as a corrupter of youth, As Blas de Otero remarked, "They don't let people see what I write because I write what I see.”
― eduardo galeano, Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent

“Don't believe that the book is losing sight of you, Reader. The you that was shifted to the Other Reader can, at any sentence, be addressed to you again. You are always a possible you. Who would dare to sentence you to the loss of the you, a catastrophe as terrible as the loss of the I. For a second-person discourse to become a novel, at least two you's are required, distinct and concomitant, which stand out from the crowd of he's, she's and they's.”
― Italo Calvino, If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler

“I have had an affinity for books throughout my life. Ever since I was little, I used to read children’s books and I loved going to book shops and buying books. My father would give me ten rupees to go to the Raina Book Depot in Srinagar, which was a great delight. When I went to Doon [a boarding school in Dehradun] I started reading more extensively. I remember reading many of the P.G. Wodehouse novels, the Sherlock Holmes and Scarlet Pimpernel series, and I loved the classics: War and Peace, A Tale of Two Cities, The Three Musketeers. I subsequently moved to more serious reading: books on philosophy and politics by Plato, Bertrand Russell, Aldous Huxley, Vivekananda, the Arthurian novels by Mary Stewart and the Cretan novels of Mary Renault are some of my favourites. In poetry, I love Yeats, Wordsworth, Sri Aurobindo, Gurudev Tagore, Robert Frost in English; Ghalib, Faiz and Iqbal in Urdu, Dinkar and Tulsidas in Hindi.”
― Karan Singh, An Examined Life: Essays and Reflections by Karan Singh

“I came to philosophy first through Plato. I was very interested in Plato, the person and his works.
[The] Republic is a much larger work. I was fascinated particularly by his Symposium. It is a beautiful work with Plato’s signature dialogues and the speech on Socrates, Aristophanes and others. I read the history of western philosophy and eventually moved to Indian philosophy.”
― Karan Singh, An Examined Life: Essays and Reflections by Karan Singh

“Technological fruits such as audiobooks are food for the illusion that we can really do more than one thing at the same time.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“....Les Misérablesis a book I read in Mexico many years ago and left behind in Mexico when I left Mexico for good, and I'm not planning to buy it or reread it, because there's no point reading, much less rereading books that have been made into movies...”
― Roberto Bolaño, The Insufferable Gaucho

“I can see how it starts, how someone can slip through your fingers even when you care so much it hurts.”
― Ella Berman, The Comeback