“The taste for books was an early one. As a child he was sometimes found at midnight by a page still reading. They took his taper away, and he bred glow-worms to serve his purpose. They took the glow-worms away and he almost burnt the house down with a tinder.” – Virginia Woolf Glow worms! Why didn’t I think of that?… Read more

“You need to read more science fiction. Nobody who reads science fiction comes out with this crap about the end of history” – Iain Banks, who left us far too soon I actually feel this way about a lot of topics. If people read more good books, they wouldn’t have such dumb, uninformed opinions about things! Read more

“Her reputation for reading a great deal hung about her like the cloudy envelope of a goddess in an epic.” – Henry James Have you noticed that we readers get a reputation? It seems to happen particularly among my friends who are light readers. I am always being asked, “Have you read the new” this or that, recently released or reviewed… Read more

“I’m old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised.” – Polish author Wis?awa Szymborska I know that I would agree, and so would a lot of my friends! Read more

“The trick is to teach yourself to read in small sips as well as long swallows.” – Stephen King, author of many of the first really long swallows I ever read Now, this is really something — how many of us know people who have mastered the small sips (magazine articles, blogs, emails) but never the long swallows? I know plenty… Read more

I like this idea, that we haven’t really left behind our childhood passions and interests. We’ve just updated them and fitted them into our adult world. “Loads of children read books about dinosaurs, underwater monsters, dragons, witches, aliens, and robots. Essentially, the people who read SF, fantasy and horror haven’t grown out of enjoying the strange and weird.” – China Miéville,… Read more

I had to give up reading in bed for a long time. I have trouble with sleep paralysis and falling asleep reading seemed to aggravate it. Lately, I have found that as long as I monitor myself, I can go back to reclining on the pillows and enjoying a few chapters before bed. “We read in bed because reading is… Read more

This one is interesting to me – I don’t know that I can pin a major change to a single book. It’s more the accumulation of readings that help me set a path. How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book. – Heanry David Thoreau Read more

This is a simple, profound state that expresses my opinion so exactly! “We shouldn’t teach great books; we should teach a love of reading.” – B. F. Skinner Read more

This quote really appealed to me. Have you ever met one of those people who seem to be proud of the fact that they haven’t read a book since they made it out of high school (and I’m guessing they weren’t valedictorian)? It always shocks me that people could be so proud of their ignorance, but they cling to it,… Read more