“If the book we're reading doesn't wake us up with a blow on the head, what are we reading it for.” — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
The child lives in the book; but just as much the book lives in the child. — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
Boredom is a certain sign that we are allowing our faculties to rust in idleness. — William Ralph Inge Copy Share Image
I think I learned a lot from reading in general - even from reading badly written books. — Margaret Haddix Copy Share Image
Don't join the book burners... Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I grew up with my uncle's comic books at my grandma's house, so I've always loved my comic book reading. — Jeffrey Dean Morgan Copy Share Image
Past and present, it is all the same, books are necromancers, they exercise an influence more varied, more lasting, than any magic… — Holbrook Jackson Copy Share Image
You have to put your partner and family at the top of the list and there must be downtime - time for… — Shirley Ballas Copy Share Image
A love of reading encompasses the whole of life: information, knowledge, insight and understanding, pleasure; the power to think, to select, to… — Frances Clarke Sayers Copy Share Image
“Reading books doesn't make you smarter. Reading smart books makes you smarter. Reading dumb books makes you dumber.” — Oliver Markus Malloy Copy Share Image
So there you have it, a lifetime of first smelling the books, they all smell wonderful, reading the books, loving the books,… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
The only people who can be excused for letting a bad book loose on the world are the poor devils who have… — Moliere Copy Share Image
A book should contain pure discoveries, glimpses of terra firma, though by shipwrecked mariners, and not the art of navigation by those… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I'm kind of old-school and love nothing more than sitting, opening a book, and reading it. But I also love listening to… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
“Your favorite author? This was an important question. I'd dated men who had never read a book. Reading was a passion of… — Debbie Macomber Copy Share Image
It is remarkable, but on the whole, perhaps, not to be lamented, that the world is so unkind to a new book.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The gift of creative reading, like all natural gifts, must be nourished or it will atrophy. And you nourish it, in much… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
Consider what you have in the smallest chosen library. A company of the wisest and wittiest men that could be picked out… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It does not follow because many books are written by persons born in America that there exists an American literature. Books which… — Margaret Fuller Copy Share Image
I find just in terms of free time I'm always envious of people I know who... listen to music, watch films, play… — Edgar Wright Copy Share Image
She could give herself up to the written word as naturally as a good dancer to music or a fine swimmer to… — Jean Rhys Copy Share Image
Do we write books so that they shall merely be read? Don't we also write them for employment in the household? For… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Some men look at Constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them, like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched.… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“When a person reaches the end of a book and says, 'I want to read that again,' what he's actually saying is… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“I would never attempt to dissuade anyone from reading a book. But please, if you're reading something that's killing you, put it… — Nick Hornby (Author Copy Share Image
“In times of struggle, there are as many reasons not to read as there are to breathe. Don’t you have bigger things… — Erin Blakemore Copy Share Image
“I, too, feel the need to reread the books I have already read," a third reader says, "but at every rereading I… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
Make sure your characters are worth spending ten hours with. That’s how long it takes to read a book. Reading a book… — Po Bronson Copy Share Image
Authors and publishers want fair compensation and a means of protecting content through digital rights management. Vendors and technology companies want new… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
The woodchopper reads the wisdom of the ages recorded on the paper that holds his dinner, then lights his pipe with it.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
