First publication is a pure, carnal leap into that dark which one dreams is life. — Hortense Calisher Copy Share Image
Books take their place according to their specific gravity as surely as potatoes in a tub. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Why should we leave it to Harper & Brothers and Redding & Co. to select our reading? — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A book is not harmless merely because no one is consciously offended by it. — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
I do not think anyone can read War and Peace too much. I read it six times... — Maxwell Perkins Copy Share Image
There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates' loot on Treasure Island... — Walt Disney Copy Share Image
As a general rule, I abstain from reading reports of attacks upon myself, wishing not to be provoked by that to which… — Abraham Lincoln 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
The great sickness and the grievous evil consist in this: that all the things that man finds written in books, he presumes… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
Books help us understand who we are and how we are to behave. They show us what community and friendship mean; they… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
W. C. Fields, a lifetime agnostic, was discovered reading a Bible on his deathbed. ''I'm looking for a loop-hole,'' he explained. — W. C. Fields Copy Share Image
Memorizing, guessing, looking at pictures, predicting, substituting, and skipping, are not reading; they are very bad habits. — Phyllis Schlafly Copy Share Image
“It has always been a great comfort to me that I could bring a book anywhere, to any place. To any part… — Anton DiSclafani Copy Share Image
The book-worm wraps himself up in his web of verbal generalities, and sees only the glimmering shadows of things reflected from the… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
To read the papers and to listen to the news... one would think the country is in terrible trouble. You do not… — Charles Kuralt Copy Share Image
I was looking at books and reading the indexes and finding a next book and reading that book, and then from that… — Lisa Yuskavage Copy Share Image
I've turned down a lot of stuff. I've read several scripts and said "That's not me, I'm not interested in doing that."… — Karl Urban Copy Share Image
When in reading we meet with any maxim that may be of use, we should take it for our own, and make… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Writing is a difficult trade which must be learned slowly by reading great authors; by trying at the outset to imitate them;… — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
“If a book is worth reading at all, it is worth reading more than once. Suspense is the lowest of excitants, designed… — William Gerhardie Copy Share Image
Reading is actually plunging into one's own identity and, one hopes, emerging stronger than before. You see, unconsciously, we are seeking to… — Amalia Kahana-Carmon Copy Share Image
I started to read at a very early age, and I just thought that books and reading were really the most wonderful… — Carol Windley Copy Share Image
“Oh, maybe a little treasure for the more rabid Incunks, the collectors and the academics who maintained their positions in large part… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“You’re awfully quiet.” Her head snapped the other way, heat creeping up into her cheeks as she focused on the ocean below.… — Lisa Kessler Copy Share Image
“Gro Rollag was no beauty, but she was a strong capable young woman with a long face, prominent cheekbones, high forehead, and… — David Laskin Copy Share Image
If it was a biopic about Glenn Greenwald, I would have immersed myself more fully in his personal life and gotten to… — Zachary Quinto Copy Share Image
“When a book leaves its author's desk it changes. Even before anyone has read it, before eyes other than its creator's have… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
When I got the script to this movie, The Good Girl, I read it in an hour. The writer, Mike White, has… — Jennifer Aniston Copy Share Image
The art of reading between the lines is as old as manipulated information. — Serge Schmemann Copy Share Image
whatever you do, find ways to read poerty. Eat it, drink it, enjoy it, and share it. — Eve Merriam Copy Share Image
