I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything. – Steven Wright, American comedian I absolutely love this. There is something, well, poetic about it. Read more

“There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.” – Ray Bradbury, American science-fiction writer Read more

“Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.” – Maya Angelou, American author and poet I love this quote. I think that any reading that motivates a child to read is good, because eventually, they are going to read something that changes… Read more

“There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.” – Will Rogers – cowboy, humorist, social commentator Certainly sounds like reading is the least painful method! Read more

“If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.” – Albert Einstein Smart words from a very smart man. Read more

“What occurs to people when they read Kurt [Vonnegut] is that things are much more up for grabs than they thought they were. The world is a slightly different place just because they read a damn book. Imagine that.” – Mark Vonnegut Imagine that, indeed. Read more

“Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste.” – Voltaire Is it okay that I laugh at this, having been forced to read Candide because it was considered a classic? Read more

“We buy books because we believe we’re buying the time to read them.” – Warren Zevon, musician, gone way too soon If only books came with time included! I would have about 300 years on sitting on my bookshelves now. Read more

“As a child, I read because books–violent and not, blasphemous and not, terrifying and not–were the most loving and trustworthy things in my life. I read widely, and loved plenty of the classics so, yes, I recognized the domestic terrors faced by Louisa May Alcott’s March sisters. But I became the kid chased by werewolves, vampires, and evil clowns in… Read more

I like to think that when I fall, A rain-drop in Death’s shoreless sea, This shelf of books along the wall, Beside my bed, will mourn for me. – Robert William Service, the Bard of the Yukon A little more poetry this week. Read more