Happy will be those who give ear to the words of the dead…

Happy will they be who lend ear to the words of the dead.

— Leonardo da Vinci

In an emergency, what treatment is given by ear? Words of Comfort.

— Abraham Verghese

Other people sound flat to my ear; their words just hang in the air. But when my mother says something, the ends curl.

— Augusten Burroughs

Only God knows the good that can come about by reading one good Catholic book.

— John Bosco

“Everyone says that reading is a good thing, but Ava had started to wonder. People look at you with suspicion if they see you…

— Stephanie Powell Watts

“Reading a good book is like being able to dream while you're awake. The best part is knowing you can re-enter that dream, whenever…

— J.Z. Bingham

I don't read reviews, There's no value for me in reading them. Whether they're good or bad, they'll just make me self-conscious.

— Mary Stuart Masterson

I don't like reading good things about myself. With the criticism and the negative things, I always think that makes me better.

— Jordan Henderson

My idea of a good time is creating something and reading a good book.

— Robin Gibb

“That's why I read so much. A book isn't going to hurt me. A book isn't going to form some opinion about me that…

— Paulette Mahurin

I wasn't inspired so much by a person as by reading many good books. I loved to write and I wondered if I might…

— Peg Kehret

Reading good literature is an experience of pleasure...but it is also an experience of learning what and how we are, in our human integrity…

— Mario Vargas Llosa

“But life is glorious when it is happy; days are carefree when they are happy; the interplay of thought and imagination is far superior…

— Isaac Asimov

“Reading a good book is like taking a journey.”

— Emma Gulliford

Reading good books ruins you for enjoying bad books.

— Mary Ann Shaffer