A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.

Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.

Poetry has done enough when it charms, but prose must also convince.

Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.

You’re never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child.

The story as told in The Odyssey doesn’t hold water. There are too many inconsistencies.

The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who’ll get me a book I ain’t read.

A great poet is the most precious jewel of a nation.

One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing.

Every man’s memory is his private literature.

The book that convinced me I wanted to be a writer was ‚Crime and Punishment‘. I put the thing down after reading it in a fever over two or three days… I said, ‚If this is what a book can be, then that is what I want to do.‘

For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.

Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads.

The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.

You stay teachable most by reading books. By reading what other people went through.

I’ve just always been a reader.

The book you don’t read won’t help.

Don’t just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.

For me, a paragraph in a novel is a bit like a line in a poem. It has its own shape, its own music, its own integrity.

I could speak three languages when I was six, and when I went to school, I only liked to read and sketch. At five, I could write and everything.

I read a lot of obscure books and it is nice to open a book.

I cannot read a single word of the Hindoos without being elevated.

If it’s all instruction, you get annoyed with it and bored, and you stop reading. If it’s all entertainment, you read it quite quickly, your heart going pitty-pat, pitty-pat. But when you finish, that’s it. You’re not going to think about it much afterward, apart from the odd nightmare. You’re not going to read that book again.

The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation.

No book includes the entire world. It’s limited. And so it doesn’t seem like an aesthetic compromise to have to do that. There’s so much other material to write about.

I cannot live without books.

I’m terrible at reading scripts. I love to read, and I hate reading scripts.

I was thinking about how people seem to read the Bible a whole lot more as they get older; then it dawned on me – they’re cramming for their final exam.

I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence.

There is nothing which can better deserve your patronage, than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.

I’m tall, fat, rather bald, red-faced, double-chinned, black-haired, have a deep voice, and wear glasses for reading.

Nothing can have value without being an object of utility.

Gold was a gift to Jesus. If it’s good enough for Jesus, it’s good enough for me!

I’ve never known any trouble than an hour’s reading didn’t assuage.

As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.

If you study the writings of the mystics, you will always find things in them that appear to be paradoxes, as in Zen, particularly.

It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.

I’m always reading the next book. Taking notes. Highlighting, researching, studying. It doesn’t stop.

The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain.

All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.

Machines are worshipped because they are beautiful and valued because they confer power; they are hated because they are hideous and loathed because they impose slavery.

All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.

To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

Bounty always receives part of its value from the manner in which it is bestowed.

How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.

Reading and writing are connected. I learned to read very early so I could read the comics, which I then started to draw.

The tablet is not mainstream. Reading off the screen is not mainstream.

Every book you pick up has its own lesson or lessons, and quite often the bad books have more to teach than the good ones.

A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.

The first book I ever really read was Plato’s ‚Republic,‘ and then I had to go over that five times or something.

I can tell you from experience that God’s help and presence in our lives is vital. He is the Author of all true success and everything that is good-without Him, we can do nothing of true value.

I think when people mean that Discworld books have become darker they really mean the series is growing up. In ‚The Colour of Magic‘ most of the city is set alight. It’s a joke, in much the same way that the Earth is destroyed almost at the start of Douglas Adams’s ‚The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.‘

After you finish a book, you know, you’re dead. But no one knows you’re dead. All they see is the irresponsibility that comes in after the terrible responsibility of writing.

I’ve been reading tabloids since I was nine. I love a good story.

There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.

I love a good Dorothy L. Sayers.

Stay active. Read the Word. Worship with other believers. Continue to give. Keep learning and growing. Your faith will be unleashed!

The rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee.

O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.

‚For Whom the Bell Tolls‘ was a problem which I carried on each day. I knew what was going to happen in principle. But I invented what happened each day I wrote.