if a book isn't self-explanatory, then it isn't worth reading. - Paulo Coelho A book worth reading is worth buying. - John Ruskin None of [the books are] worth reading. There are no fairy tales, no faerie tails, no sword-swinging princesses or lightning-throwing gods. - Laurie Halse Anderson Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others. - Antonin Artaud it is a tragedy and therefore not worth reading.. - Jane Austen Nearly all bookish people are snobs, and especially the more enlightened among them. They are apt to assume that if a writer has immense circulation, if he is enjoyed by plain persons, and if he can fill several theatres at once, he cannont possibly be worth reading and merits only indifference and disdain. - Arnold Bennett No fiction is worth reading except for entertainment. If it entertains and is clean, it is good literature, or its kind. If it forms the habit of reading, in people who might no...

Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life. - Mortimer Adler Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body and prayer is to the soul. - Matthew Kelly Reading is to the mind what exercising is to the body. - Richard Steele The act of reading is a partnership. The author builds a house, but the reader makes it a home. - Jodi Picoult A book worth reading is worth buying. - John Ruskin Reading is like looking through several windows which open to an infinite landscape....For me life without reading would be like being in prison, it would be as if my spirit were in a straightjacket; life would be a very dark and narrow place. - Isabel Allende [T]he only luxury he allows himself is buying books, paperback books, mostly novels, American novels, British novels, foreign novels in translation, but in the end books are not luxuries so much as necessities, and reading is an addiction he has no wish to be cured of. - Paul Auster Reading is a majority skill but a minority art...

No, books. She would have maybe twenty going at a time, lying all over our house--on the kitchen table, by her bed, the bathroom, our car, her bags, a little stack at the edge of each stair. And she'd use anything she could find for a bookmark. My missing sock, an apple core, her reading glasses, another book, a fork. - Kami Garcia I'd begun to realize that there was an unspoken predjudice among book-learned people, a secret conviction they all seemed to share, that life as we know it is an imperfect vision of reality, and that only art, like a pair of reading glasses can correct it. - Ian Caldwell The poet and poetess have always had a rough time of it in the Republic. It has ever been their endemic luck to starve, become a Harvard professor, commit suicide, lose their reading glasses before an audience of sophomores, go upon the people a la Barnum, and serve as homework in state universities, where they could in nowise get a position and where their presence usually scatte...

Never mind reading between the lines, try reading what's on them first. - Teri Louise Kelly The truth is that every true admirer of the novels cherishes the happy thought that he alone - reading between the lines - has bcome the secret friend of their author. - Katherine Mansfield The art of reading between the lines is as old as manipulated information. - Serge Schmemann

The pleasures of writing correspond exactly to the pleasures of reading - Vladimir Nabokov Reading alters the appearance of a book. Once it has been read, it never looks the same again, and people leave their individual imprint on a book they have read. Once of the pleasures of reading is seeing this alteration on the pages, and the way, by reading it, you have made the book yours. - Paul Theroux

I keep reading between the lies. - Goodman Ace So long as readers keep reading and my publishers keep publishing, I plan to keep on writing. I'd have to be an idiot to be burnt-out in this job. - Lee Child Reading "For One More Day". Nothing interesting happened yet. Exciting to keep reading. - Mitch Albom If you read the first page of one of my novels, I can guarantee that you will read the last one. This isn't just social commentary. This is also about writing good page-turners. I want people to keep reading. - Jodi Picoult Keep reading. It's one of the most marvelous adventures that anyone can have. - Lloyd Alexander Keep reading books, but remember that a book's only a book, and you should learn to think for yourself. - Maxim Gorky I keep reading that I'm cold. But I'm not, I'm shy. And I play a lot of women of fire and sexuality like an animal - so I'm cold on one side and fiery on the other. - Emmanuelle Beart Whether in music or ...

The real importance of reading is that it creates an ease and intimacy with the process of writing; one comes to the country of the writer with one's papers and identification pretty much in order. - Stephen King The importance of reading, for me, is that it allows you to dream. Reading not only educates, but is relaxing and allows you to feed your imagination - creating beautiful pictures from carefully chosen words. - Eric Ripert

I think people enjoy reading about money, but the people who are in charge of giving me guidance tell me not to talk about it in interviews. Why not? That's what everybody thinks about. - Sean Astin If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all. - Oscar Wilde I just write the sort of book that I would enjoy reading myself, a book that is both scholarly and recreates the experience of people at that time. - Antony Beevor I do enjoy reading some science fiction. - Colin Farrell It's just a matter of writing the kind of book I enjoy reading. Something better be happening at the beginning, and then on every page after, or I get irritated. - Jonathan Franzen I hope to be with you as a writer for a very long time, and I hope that you will enjoy reading my work, because readers are the highest form of life on this planet. - Guy Johnson I hope you enjoy reading my book as much as I didn't enjoy writing it. Just kidding! I hope y...

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint. - Mark Twain I can imagine no greater bliss than to lie about, reading novels all day. - Julia Quinn That's what I love about reading: one tiny thing will interest you in a book, and that tiny thing will lead you onto another book, and another bit there will lead you onto a third book. It's geometrically progressive-- all with no end in sight, and for no other reason than sheer enjoyment. - Annie Barrows That's what I love about reading: one tiny thing will interest you in a book, and that tiny thing will lead you to another book, and another bit there will lead you onto a third book. It's geometrically progressive - all with no end in sight, and for no other reason than sheer enjoyment. - Mary Ann Shaffer ...she felt about reading what some writers felt about writing: that it was impossible not to do it and that at this late stage of her life she had been chosen to read as others were chosen to writ...