When you are growing up there are two institutional places that affect you most powerfully: the church, which belongs to God, and… — Keith Richards Copy Share Image
First, a few words about this title. It isn't easy, coming up with book titles. A lot of the really good ones… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
Mary Stewart will always be my goddess. I can pick up one of her early books - one I've read a dozen… — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
Many readers judge of the power of a book by the shock it gives their feelings - as some savage tribes determine… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
“This idea that the buying, or even the reading, of books is an expensive hobby and beyond the reach of the average… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
For Borges, the core of reality lay in books; reading books, writing books, talking about books. In a visceral way, he was… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
Computers allow us to squeeze the most out of everything, whether it's Google looking up things, so I guess that tends to… — Buzz Aldrin Copy Share Image
My behavior is nonetheless, deplorable. Unfortunately, I'm quite prone to such bouts of deplorability--take for instance, my fondness for reading books at… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
“What reading does, ultimately, is keep alive the dangerous and exhilarating idea that a life is not a sequence of lived moments,… — Sven Birkerts Copy Share Image
We know where most of the creativity, the innovation, the stuff that drives productivity lies-in the minds of those closest to the… — Jack Welch Copy Share Image
“I have been reading three books Dean lent me this week. One was like a rose garden--very pleasant, but just a little… — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
I have boys, and boys are particularly resistant to reading books. I had some success recently with Sherman Alexie's great young adult… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
I teach 18- to 21-year-olds - the 'Harry Potter' generation. They grew up as voracious readers, reading books in this exploding genre.… — Deborah Harkness Copy Share Image
“Literature is a cake with many toys baked inside-and even if you find them all, if you don't enjoy the path that… — Camron Wright Copy Share Image
“Sometimes you need to completely close yourself off from the outside world and enrich your inner world by reading and thinking because… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
By the time I got to college I had stopped reading books because I wanted to "be cool" and started reading books… — Simon Rich Copy Share Image
“But, after a while, I actually began to enjoy reading those books, because we were very poor. But between the covers of… — Ben Carson Copy Share Image
“Remember that the truth within yourself will always be greater than the truth found in these pages. These stories are here to… — Andrew Kaufman Copy Share Image
If you say to teachers, how can we, with the resources we've got here, develop a policy on reading books, then within… — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
“Back then I could not understand one word of what I read. Reading did, however, give me heart. Even if you cannot… — Peter Hoeg Copy Share Image
“Think of me, the uneducated child reading books in my room at 22 Hyde Park Gate -- now advanced to this glory...… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“A book is like a key that fits into the tumbler of the soul. The two parts have to match in order… — Brad Kessler Copy Share Image
“He passed the time reading books on Zen Buddhism and playing basketball, where his ball-hogging style of play earned him the nickname… — Joshua Green Copy Share Image
What the war did was give me the opportunity of three years of continuous reading, and it was in the course of… — Douglass North Copy Share Image
In the old days people had far fewer channels in which to place their imaginative time. There's definitely more competition for time… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
“The stories she'd read of others' lives over these last few months had left her with a greater appreciation for the thread… — Masha Hamilton Copy Share Image
I love watching the Bond movies obviously and I grew up reading the books as a kid. I've always loved them because… — Danny Boyle Copy Share Image
“A good vocabulary,’ he once wrote (April 1959), ‘is not acquired by reading books written according to some notion of the vocabulary… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
If minds are truly alive they will seek out books, for books are the human race recounting its memorable experiences, confronting its… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading. — William Styron Copy Share Image
I've always liked reading books that contain funny lines or situations, and maybe because my work is known chiefly for its violence… — Donald Ray Pollock Copy Share Image
When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
“You can be a writer who doesn't read everyday. But you're not fooling anyone. It shows, rather embarrassingly, in your work.” — Don Roff Copy Share Image
“Here, captured between covers, was the history of the human imagination, and nothing had ever been more beautiful, or fearsome, or bizarre.” — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
“He was thirty-six years old, and six foot three. He spoke English to people and French to cats, and Latin to the… — Katherine Rundell Copy Share Image
The fire of literacy is created by the emotional sparks between a child, a book, and the person reading. It isn’t achieved… — Mem Fox Copy Share Image
The best way for parents to go about acquiring a mind-set of self-reflective parenting will be different for different individuals. Some people… — Timothy Carey Copy Share Image
“I believe in the absolute and unlimited liberty of reading. I believe in wandering through the stacks and picking out the first… — Jay Allison Copy Share Image
“The essential criterion for running a bookstore is less "Do you like books?" than "Do you like people?" Ironically, we find that… — Wendy Welch Copy Share Image
“Literature supplements the lives of people and enables us to feel connected with the world. Shared stories blunt a sense of tragic… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
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