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I was not a comic book reader, but my son is. My son wasn't really interested in reading books, which was hard for me because I love to read. It just didn't come naturally to my boy. So we kind of found comic books because they were fascinating to him. They were great stories.
Sep 10, 2025
I’m imagining that paper books will evolve to become something akin to candles - we have them in our homes and cherish their light, but don’t light our homes with them. Readers of Lincoln’s era would likely be surprised at how well-lit our homes are, and I think it’s likely that we will be surprised at how well-read future book readers will be.
We notice things that don't work. We don't notice things that do. We notice computers, we don't notice pennies. We notice e-book readers, we don't notice books.
The Kindle is the most successful electronic book-reading tablet so far, but that's not saying much; Silicon Valley is littered with the corpses of e-book reader projects.
I was not a big comic-book reader.
I read the 'Deadpool' series back in the '90s. I'm not, like, a huge comic book reader, per say, though. I'll check out 'Archie' when I'm in the grocery line, but that's about it.
One of the saddest days of my life was when my mother told me Superman did not exist. I was like what do you mean he's not real. And she thought I was crying because it’s like Santa Claus is not real and I was crying because there was no one coming with enough power to save us.
It's important to realize that the series actually grows with the reader. "March: Book One" is a great introduction for kids as young as eight or nine years old. But then they grow with the reader. Book Two is bigger, Book Three is even bigger. And they grow more violent and more confrontational.
I wasn't a big comic book reader. I always had trouble knowing which box to read next. I was always reading from the wrong box. I was like, this is a comic book that doesn't make any sense! I think I was reading them all out of sequence.
People are going to die who don't die in the books, so even the book readers will be unhappy. So everybody better be on their toes. David and D.B. (David Benioff and D.B. Weiss co-creators of 'Game Of Thrones') are even bloodier than I am.
Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself.
Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.
It is not enough to simply teach children to read; we have to give them something worth reading. Something that will stretch their imaginations- something that will help them make sense of their own lives and encourage them to reach out toward people whose lives are quite different from their own.
Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.
I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget.
That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.
When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls.
It is not enough to simply teach children to read; we have to give them something worth reading.
Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors.
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body and prayer is to the soul.
There is no substitute for books in the life of a child.
It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.
To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Reading will give you lasting pleasure.
A writer only begins a book. A reader finishes it.
I read my Eyes out, and cant read half enough neither. The more one reads the more one sees We have to read.
What is reading but silent conversation?
A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us.
When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls. What is to happen next will take place within the four walls of the story. And this is possible because the story's voice makes everything its own.
'Classic.' A book which people praise and don't read.
Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers.
Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself.
If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.
There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates' loot on Treasure Island...
If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.
Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time.
Tis the good reader that makes the good book.
A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.
There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all.
Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.
The more you read, the more things you will know.
The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.
A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies.
A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.
At the same time, as you know, unless you are a comic book reader, Daredevil is not a known thing.
There is an art of reading, an art of thinking, and an art of writing.
There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing.
Book readers are special people, and they will always turn to books as the ultimate pleasure. Those who do not read are the unfortunate ones. There's nothing wrong with them; but they are missing out on one of life's compensations and rewards. A great book is a friend that never lets you down. You can return to it again and again and the joy first derived from it will still be there.