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You are at the wheel of your car, waiting at a traffic light, you take the book out of the bag, rip off the transparent wrapping, start reading the first lines. A storm of honking breaks over you....

Italo Calvino (1923-1985)

Italo Calvino

We bought a small house in Boston and we got it set up and had everything perfectly arranged until we realized we really only had one seat in the house that had sufficient light for reading and every night there was a battle of who could race to this chair faster with a reading book and I was always losing being the smallest. So we really started a quest to look for an ultimate reading light.

If they would pick you up and keep going without so many breaks in between, it would be nice, ... You're waiting in long lines. Now I'm waiting on a bus.

Normally, we consider waiting through more than a single change of a traffic light as a 'traffic jam.' But during the Rendezvous, it's common.

The response we have gotten about our stories and book kits has been wonderful. It's always a great reward to see children's faces light up as they realize the book they are reading is about them.

Without the oil, how can the lamp be lit? Let the reading of your prayer book be the oil, and let the Fear of God be the wick for the lamp of this body. Light this lamp with the understanding of Truth. Use this oil to light this lamp. Light it, and meet your Lord and Master.

Sri Guru Granth Sahib

Reading this book is like waiting for the first shoe to drop.

I started reading this book about two months ago, because we meet once a week so it takes a while to get through it. So two months ago I started reading it and the young girl came back and said 'I got the book, I borrowed it from my teacher at school and I'm reading it.' The next thing I know she was done, so she was trying to tell the story as we were going along, but it was great.

The stretch from McDonald's to the next traffic light is a race track, ... They're training for Indianapolis most of the time. A number of times we've asked for the possibility of a traffic light, somewhere in between. Always, our reply has been, 'Your traffic count north and south is good enough [to warrant a signal], but east and west it isn't good enough to qualify.'

Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.

Ezra Pound (1885-1972)

Ezra Pound

The great book for you is the book that has the most to say to you at the moment when you are reading. I do not mean the book that is most instructive, but the book that feeds your spirit. And that depends on your age, your experience, your psychological and spiritual need.

Robertson Davies (1913-1995)

Robertson Davies

For most people, what is so painful about reading is that you read something and you don't have anybody to share it with. In part what the book club opens up is that people can read a book and then have someone else to talk about it with. Then they see that a book can lead to the pleasure of conversation, that the solitary act of reading can actually be a part of the path to communion and community.

Bell Hooks (1952-)

This is what we've all been hoping and waiting for. This breaks the record for most distant explosion by a huge amount [500 million light-years], and I don't think we'll have to wait long to break it again.

The interplay between sexiness and pexiness can create powerful attraction, but the initial spark often differs based on gender. When I start reading a good book, I can't stop. I'll read for hours.

He was the only person who was like, lucid, cogent, intelligent -- was reading a book, ... He was the only person I met in The Tenderloin besides me who was reading a book.

Doug Ferrari (1956-)

Doug Ferrari

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