reader

Reading is the life-saving water for our minds. Drink pure words as much as you need and remain alive!

If I had to choose between all the books in the world and you, then I would choose to read your body for the rest of my life.

Desire may cease once the desired person or object is acquired. The desire of reading doesn__ cease once a book is read, however extraordinary this one was.

A good reader should always have two books with him: one to read, the other one to lend.

Every book has to wait for the right time to be read and understood.

Let's read as if books were to disappear tomorrow!

I__ so glad to hear you are a reader, and you found these books to help you work through things on your own.

Only a reader can understand how a book with 100 pages can be too long and one with 1000 pages can be too short.

Every reader has found charms by which to secure possession of a page that, by magic, becomes as if never read before, fresh and immaculate.

Books themselves need no defense. Their spokesmen come and go, their readers live and die, they remain constant.

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.

As readers, we have gone from learning a precious craft whose secret was held by a jealous few, to taking for granted a skin that has become subordinate to principles of mindless financial profit or mechanical efficiency, a skill for which governments care almost nothing.

Our society accepts the book as a given, but the act of reading -- once considered useful and important, as well as potentially dangerous and subversive -- is now condescendingly accepted as a pastime, a slow pastime that lacks efficiency and does not contribute to the common good.

Readers, censors know, are defined by the books they read.

Every reader exists to ensure for a certain book a modest immortality. Reading is, in this sense, a ritual of rebirth.

We can imagine the books we'd like to read, even if they have not yet been written, and we can imagine libraries full of books we would like to possess, even if they are well beyond our reach, because we enjoy dreaming up a library that reflects every one of our interests and every one of our foibles--a library that, in its variety and complexity, fully reflects the reader we are.

We lusty bibliophiles know that reading, unlike just about anything else, is both good for you and loads of fun.

The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story.