I'm always reading. I've loved reading since I was young, and I've always loved sinking my teeth into a different world, especially one that you begin to create in your head.
Every time I read a Jane Austen novel, I feel like a bartender at the gates of heaven.
I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.
The printed page was like wine to me.
I read a lot of obscure books and it is nice to open a book.
I don't live in books, but, boy, have books amplified my life.
Books are a hard-bound drug with no danger of an overdose. I am the happy victim of books.
I've always loved books.
The greatest gift is a passion for reading.
What a blessing it is to love books as I love them;- to be able to converse with the dead, and to live amidst the unreal!
So there you have it, a lifetime of first smelling the books, they all smell wonderful, reading the books, loving the books, and remembering the books.
This is what I believe is most important: getting good books into the hands of kids - books that will make them want to say, 'Wow, that was great. Give me another one to read.'
I escaped the torture of my childhood home by reading. To this day it is still one of my greatest pleasures.
It's such a wonderful feeling to watch a child discover that reading is a marvelous adventure rather than a chore.
The greatest pleasure of reading consists in re-reading.
A childhood without books – that would be no childhood. That would be like being shut out from the enchanted place where you can go and find the rarest kind of joy.
Our hope is that the elementary reading of comics will lead to the joy of reading good books.
When we have read a book or poem so often that we can no longer find any amusement in reading it by ourselves, we can still take pleasure in reading it to a companion. To him it has all the graces of novelty.
I love bookstores. I love the energy in a bookstore and the smell of the paper.
Oh! I am delighted with the book! I should like to spend my whole life in reading it.
But it doesn't stop at school. We can all enjoy books throughout our lives - as I certainly continue to do.
I'd like for the young people, and older ones, too, who don't count themselves as readers, to know the joy of reading and what it does to enrich your life in so many ways.
I'm not going to make judgments about what people are reading. I just want them to be reading. And I think reading one book leads to another book.
To encounter a fine book and have time to read it is a wonderful thing.
I love to read. I remember hearing that the average author takes two years to write a book. So when I read a book, I feel like I am getting two years of life experiences.
