Gentle Quote by William Wordsworth

“My gentle Reader, I perceive / How patiently you’ve waited, / And now I fear that you expect / Some tale will be related.…

— William Wordsworth

“Books Fall Open Books fall open, you fall in, delighted where, you've never been. Hear voices not once heard before, Reach world through world,…

— David McCord

Like most writers, I read constantly. I used to hide in remote parts of the yard and house so I could read in peace.

— Elin Hilderbrand

What you look for as a reader is somebody who is going to take you and say, 'C'mon. Come into the story. I'm going…

— Celeste Ng

“Don't be afraid to write and share your story with the reading world! Find your courage! It is a fact that some will love…

— Anonymous

Reading is one of the true pleasures of life. In our age of mass culture, when so much that we encounter is abridged,adapted, adulterated,…

— Thomas S. Monson

Every reader, if he has a strong mind, reads himself into the book, and amalgamates his thoughts with those of the author.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“A woman at one of mother's parties once said to me, "Do you like reading?" which smote us all to silence, for how could…

— Rachel Ferguson

“In its silence, a book is a challenge: it can't lull you with surging music or deafen you with screeching laugh tracks or fire…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

That's what reading was for my mother, and became for me - a way to escape, a private time machine, a place that began…

— Ramona Koval

Don't try to anticipate an ideal reader - or any reader. He/she might exist - but is reading someone else.

— Joyce Carol Oates

“When we read, we decide when, where, how long, and about what. One of the few places on earth that it is still possible…

— Andrew Clements