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I should like to write my books only for the dear person who lies awake reading in bed until page last, then lets the open book fall gently on her face, to touch her smile or drink her tears.
— Barbara Kingsolver
Fiction is a sort of inter-human magic, allowing you to travel into a scene and feel it tingle on your skin, see it in your mind's eye and smell it with your mind's nose! But forming these images from the printed page is a skill you have to develop when you're fairly young, I think, or else it's very difficult to read for pleasure later on.
— Barbara Kingsolver
He reads next to nothing. It might interfere with his knowledge of the universe.
— Barbara Kingsolver
There's no better way to inform and expand you mind on a regular basis than to get into the habit of reading good literature.
— Stephen Covey
The person who doesn't read is no better off than the person who can't read.
— Stephen Covey
Even during the most intense years building Microsoft, he periodically set aside an entire week to unplug for reading and reflection, a Think Week.
— Stephen Covey
Be true to yourself. Make each day your masterpiece! Help others. Drink deeply from good books, especially the Bible. Make friendship a fine art. Build a shelter against a rainy day. Pray for guidance and give thanks for your blessings every day.
— Stephen Covey
if you organize your family life to spend even ten or fifteen minutes a morning reading something that connects you with these timeless principles, it's almost guaranteed that you will make better choices during the day—in the family, on the job, in every dimension of life.
— Stephen Covey
It is important to increase our sense of God's richness and wonder by reading what his great lovers have said about him.
— Evelyn Underhill
Reading is to the mind, what exercise is to the body. As by the one, health is preserved, strengthened, and invigorated: by the other, virtue (which is the health of the mind) is kept alive, cherished, and confirmed.
— Joseph Addison
Reading to the mind is what exercise is to the body.
— Joseph Addison
Reading is a gift, but only if the words are taken into the soul--eaten, chewed, gnawed, received in unhurried delight.
— Eugene Peterson