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
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
“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
“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
“What a great month, little one. We are having so much fun together, going on walks and reading books and watching Pyramid… — Heather B. Armstrong Copy Share Image
“As a person, [Barbara Stanwyck] was a great deal like the character she played in Ball of Fire, a stripper called Sugarpuss… — Robert Wagner 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
“I prefer the company of books. When I'm reading, I'm never alone, I have a conversation with the book. It can be… — Sophie Divry 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
An imaginative book renders us much more service at first, by stimulating us through its tropes, than afterward, when we arrive atthe… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“this art wasn’t exactly a novelty for him, and he shyly observed that, having nowhere to go and nothing to do, nor… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Vacation cruises are advertised as luxurious journeys to exotic places, but a chief pleasure is the reading of books ... . On… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
The young adult literature is relatively new - it just kind of exploded in the 2000s. When I grew up, there weren't… — Jay Asher Copy Share Image
“Do you like Moby Dick ?" he asks. "I hate it," she says. "And I don't say that about many things. Teachers… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
“A man is like a two-story house. The first floor is equipped with an entrance and a living room. On the second… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
As a kid, I know that most of my parents' friends were because my mom made friends with them, and my dad… — Paul Rudd Copy Share Image
“(...) perfectly ordinary books, printed on commonplace paper in mundane ink. It would be a mistake to think that they weren't also… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's funny that I got to do 'On the Road' because the thing that had the biggest impact on me growing up… — Garrett Hedlund Copy Share Image
“Anything worth reading is not only worth reading twice, but worth reading again and again. If a book is worthwhile, then you… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
“Children learn from the world through doing, touching, experiencing; adults on the other hand, tend to take in the world through their… — Jennifer Senior Copy Share Image
I started my professional life as a philosopher of language and for several years took the orthodox line that meaning is an… — David E. Cooper Copy Share Image
I'd say that about 82 percent of what I write is bad, but don't go by me; I'm as bad a judge… — George Burns Copy Share Image
It is a relief to read some true book, wherein all are equally dead,--equally alive. I think the best parts of Shakespeare… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There's a different kind of experience you have when you experience live entertainment versus the kinds of media we tend to consume… — Randy Pitchford Copy Share Image
“I went from escaping into books to extracting things from them, from being inspired by books to trying to do things that… — Pamela Paul Copy Share Image
“For our purpose, however, what the soldiers did or did not read is irrelevant. For, if soldiers did not learn to fight… — John Keegan Copy Share Image
“Better minds have said it before, but I don’t mind repeating it less well again and again: Reading, like the natural world,… — Junot Díaz Copy Share Image
“You know what’s sad about reading books? It’s that you fall in love with the characters. They grow on you. And as… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
Anyone buying this book is going to be out a tidy sum if he is sucked in by the title. I wish… — Groucho Marx 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
“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
A man is like a two-story house. The first floor is equipped with an entrance and a living room. On the second… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Most people feel they lack the intelligence to find the right way for them, but this is merely misunderstanding. Intelligence has nothing… — Robert Anthony Copy Share Image
“Reading is one of the most pleasurable activities out there. On a scale of human enjoyment I once found in a reference… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“We began reading books together. He loved Dr. Seuss. I read those books so often I could turn the pages and say… — John Elder Robison Copy Share Image
It used to take me forever to read and comprehend stuff, so I decided not to make the 'Captain Underpants' books too… — Dav Pilkey Copy Share Image
“Reading requires actual concentration . If you skipped a paragraph, or even an important sentence, you could lose the entire story. With… — Daniel Ehrenhaft Copy Share Image
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