... just as food is necessary to the life of the body, so good reading is necessary to the life of the soul. — Pope John XXIII Copy Share Image
In the best travel books the word alone is implied on every exciting page, as subtle and ineradicable as a watermark. — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
“I’d like the reading of this book to leave you with the impression that you’ve traversed a sensual nightmare.” — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“Knowing that others want to read my writing is the greatest inspiration to write.” — David Rose Copy Share Image
Reading should not be presented to children as a chore, a duty. It should be offered as a gift. — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
I think it is shocking that 15- and 16-year-olds leave school unable to add up and with the reading ability of a… — Joan Collins Copy Share Image
I like reading novels because it provides insight into human behavior. — Claire Danes Copy Share Image
I've done a gazillion readings that have gone on to be movies that are made without me. — Melanie Lynskey Copy Share Image
“There was going to be a spot for me in this joint, the earth, after all. It was never going to be… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
You have to be very clear with yourself about how you're going to spend your time. When a child is at school… — Elizabeth Hoyt Copy Share Image
I was lucky enough not to face any required summer reading lists until I went to college. So I still think of… — Margaret Haddix Copy Share Image
Whereas the work is understood to be traceable to a source (through a process of derivation or "filiation"), the Text is without… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
“For all her faults, it was actually my mom who instilled in me a love of reading, and books, for which I… — Paula Gruben Copy Share Image
“its funny how i didn't like reading but i love it know the young adult books are base on kids my age… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It would be impossible to learn the lessons the scriptures contain by reading them only one time through or studying selected verses… — Julie B. Beck Copy Share Image
“I was born with a reading list that I will never finish. The person who deserves that most pity is a lonely… — Maude Casey Copy Share Image
My work on what is called 'deep reading' explores the range of linguistic, cognitive, and affective processes that underlie not only the… — Maryanne Wolf Copy Share Image
If your memory was OK you could descend upon on a bookshop – a big enough one so that the staff wouldn’t… — Francis Spufford Copy Share Image
A capacity, and taste, for reading, gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. It is the key, or one… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I think, oh my god, kids are reading, and they care about a book enough to come over and talk to me… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
“However readers make a book theirs, the end is that book and reader become one. The world that is a book is… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
“His chief form of entertainment was reading. The last moments he was in a cabin were usually spent scanning bookshelves and nightstands.… — Michael Finkel Copy Share Image
“Mortimer!" Orpheus produced a derisive smile, although with some difficulty. "Is your head buried so deep in your wine jug that you… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
I've worked with Emily Skinner and I've seen Linda Balgord's work. I saw Harvey Keitel at the call-backs. But generally I don't… — Max von Essen Copy Share Image
This week I've been reading a lot and doing little work. That's the way things ought to be. That's surely the road… — Anne Frank Copy Share Image
Congress' passing of the omnibus spending bill without reading it shows more than anything why they can't be trusted. — Neal Boortz Copy Share Image
We are reading the story of our lives As though we were in it As though we had written it. — Mark Strand Copy Share Image
To make a book is as much a trade as to make a clock; something more than intelligence is required to become… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
I'm not one for reading comments or reading what people say online because, generally, there's a lot of negativity. — Finn Balor Copy Share Image
I began reading science fiction before I was 12 and started writing science fiction around the same time. — Octavia Butler Copy Share Image
I had to rehabilitate my mind and so I started reading more, and I became a better person. — Rich Homie Quan Copy Share Image
From that moment on, the world was hers for the reading. She would never be lonely again. — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
“What is the use of a book without pictures or conversations? -Alice in Wonderland” — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
“Two of life’s greatest pleasures, by my reckoning, are camping and reading—most gloriously, both at once.” — Michael Finkel Copy Share Image
Your baby only needs a lot of light at night if he's reading or he's entertaining guests. — Lawrence Kutner Copy Share Image
“What you reading?” She fanned her face. “Something I shouldn’t be in front of people.” — Sloane Howell Copy Share Image
Reading books makes you smart, so if me reading makes me look like a nerd or a geek, then I am proud… — Shar-rae Copy Share Image
I don't think Trump reads. If he does, my guess is he's reading autobiographies of ... I wonder if he's read Mein Kampf. — Eric Walters Copy Share Image
The Athanasian Creed is to me light and intelligible reading in comparison with much that now passes for science. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
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