#ding

The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones. ↗

— John Wooden

#books #keep #new #new books #old

No matter who you are, no matter where you live, and no matter how many people are chasing you, what you don't read is often as important as what you do read. ↗

— Lemony Snicket

#live

A peasant that reads is a prince in waiting. ↗

— Walter Mosley

#read

[D]on't ever apologize to an author for buying something in paperback, or taking it out from a library (that's what they're there for. Use your library). Don't apologize to this author for buying books second hand, or getting them from bookcrossing or borrowing a friend's copy. What's important to me is that people read the books and enjoy them, and that, at some point in there, the book was bought by someone. And that people who like things, tell other people. The most important thing is that people read... ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#libraries #library #reading #read

Sleep is good, he said, And books are better. ↗

— George R.R. Martin

#reading #read

I am too fond of reading books to care to write them. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#read

Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators. ↗

— Stephen Fry

#e-readers #kindle #reading #read

Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand. ↗

— Ezra Pound

#light #reading #read

Take no heed of her.... She reads a lot of books. ↗

— Jasper Fforde

#reading #read

By now, it is probably very late at night, and you have stayed up to read this book when you should have gone to sleep. If this is the case, then I commend you for falling into my trap. It is a writer's greatest pleasure to hear that someone was kept up until the unholy hours of the morning reading one of his books. It goes back to authors being terrible people who delight in the suffering of others. Plus, we get a kickback from the caffeine industry... ↗

— Brandon Sanderson

#reading #writing #read