Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork - reading, writing, thinking - can. — Helen Gurley Brown Copy Share Image
“From now on we will focus on the four Rs: reading, writing, arithmetic, and rules.” — Dan Gutman Copy Share Image
One of the great joys in life is reading, yet it's the main thing people say they don't have time to do. — Dana Perino Copy Share Image
Nothing is better than reading and gaining more and more knowledge. — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
And there are a lot more people reading poetry, but there are not so many people reading an individual poet. — Peter Davison Copy Share Image
I had no idea that reading it would lead me to a cabin. It's dangerous to open a book — Sylvain Tesson Copy Share Image
I don't want people reading my books just because they're horror or mysteries. I want them to read them because they're Joe… — Joe R. Lansdale Copy Share Image
Patience is the chiefest fruit of study; a man that strives to make himself different from other men by much reading gains… — John Selden Copy Share Image
“I have lived long enough to know that wherever there is crisis there is always Christ. Look for Jesus in the middle… — Patience Johnson Copy Share Image
I always tend to see, right after reading the script, the character and how I want to play it. I guess that's… — Freddie Highmore Copy Share Image
“It’s not the story-line that makes for good reading…but the storyteller. I believe Mark Twain could have filled out a credit application… — Rob Wood Copy Share Image
I know these are going to sound like school reading-list suggestions, but if you like dystopian fiction, you should check out some… — Sara Shepard Copy Share Image
It's too easy to unconsciously echo another novelist's voice while reading fiction, a habit of mimicry I probably picked up as a… — Greg Iles Copy Share Image
“Never force yourself to read a book that you do not enjoy. There are so many good books in the world that… — Atwood H. Townsend Copy Share Image
The way to rock oneself back into writing is this. First gentle exercise in the air. Second the reading of good literature.… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“I am no novel-reader—I seldom look into novels—Do not imagine that I often read novels—It is really very well for a novel.”… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“The great writers have always been great readers, but that does not mean that they read all the books that, in their… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The thing about Tolkien, about The Lord of the Rings, is that it's perfect. It's this whole world, this whole process of… — Jo Walton Copy Share Image
“No book is really worth reading, which does not either impart valuable knowledge; or set before us some ideal of beauty, strength,… — J.R. Miller Copy Share Image
I feel like one can have all of that as a writer; you're writing, you're reading, you're talking to interesting and intelligent… — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
You belong to the biblical race of Nephilim. Your real father was an angel who fell from heaven. You're half mortal." The… — Becca Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
There lots of other kids playing in streets around this country today who are going to be dead tomorrow, and the next… — Ted Bundy Copy Share Image
My reading is always about musical biographies. I have an innate interest and passion for that. — Nina Blackwood Copy Share Image
If you discover a word in my book that you don't understand, ask your parents so they can look it up in… — Gloria Estefan Copy Share Image
“I love reading books. You really get hooked!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!” — Daniel Radunsky Copy Share Image
“I mean, most people want to escape. Get out of their heads. Out of their lives. Stories are the easiest way to… — Victoria Schwab Copy Share Image
I'm reading a lot of scripts. It makes my career decisions in that sense much the same way I consume media. — Jessica Pare Copy Share Image
I don't thrive on stress. I love lying on the deck on our houseboat reading a book. — Bear Grylls Copy Share Image
“You recreate your world to your taste with God's Word in your mouth.” — Jaachynma N.E. Agu Copy Share Image
Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
“Pause while reading a book only in case of two things: 1. To kiss 2. To sip coffee Too bad both are a luxury.” — Saleem Sharma Copy Share Image
“A short story is a different thing altogether – a short story is like a quick kiss in the dark from a stranger.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“We often speak of creating an environment for reading, a reading climate.” — Teri S. Lesesne Copy Share Image
“The present is not so glorious but that I should wish to dwell a little in the past.” — Baroness Emma Orczy Copy Share Image
My mother was a part of a reading group, but they would never come near science fiction because they think it's not… — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
I don't think it's shameful to admit that some days your time can be better spent reading than writing. — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
I learnt to love reading. And then I started scribbling stories, and I liked that even more. — James Patterson Copy Share Image
When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
