Why are we reading, if not in hope of beauty laid bare, life heightened and its deepest mystery probed? — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
“Living is worth the effort if only because without life we could not read or imagine stories.” — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
Anyone who reads a book with a sense of obligation does not understand the art of reading. — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
I judged about a zillion awards this year so I've been reading a lot of books that just came out. — Rick Moody Copy Share Image
I was a really good student. In the sixth grade, I was reading at a twelfth grade reading level. But I got… — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
I hated reading - I was not a 'good kid' - but I was determined when I put my mind to something. — Susie Wolff Copy Share Image
Reading poetry is an adventure in renewal, a creative act, a perpetual beginning, a rebirth of wonder. — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
“There were no books in the Afterwards, which the people thought was some serious bullshit.” — Amber Sparks Copy Share Image
To write a novel may be pure pleasure. To live a novel presents certain difficulties. As for reading a novel, I do… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
I did a lot of reading. I read about democratic socialism. And I read about the efforts of people for such a… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
At 20 and 30, we are like travelers in a foreign country, reading the guide book to learn how to behave, to… — Karen DeCrow Copy Share Image
In 1969, we emigrated to Australia. It was a big change. The heat, the flies, and the completely different tinned meats. The… — Morris Gleitzman Copy Share Image
One of the reasons why people in the west are nervous is they are reading the Koran, and the life of Mohammed… — Mark Durie Copy Share Image
Not reading a beautiful book again because you've already read it, that is, as if you were not visiting a dear friend… — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Copy Share Image
“Makikilala rin tayo sa kinds of books and other reading materials that we read. Our reading is the outward expression of our… — Ronald Molmisa Copy Share Image
Literacy is so much entwined in our lives that we often fail to realize that the act of reading is a miracle… — Maryanne Wolf Copy Share Image
If you intend to write as truthfully as you can, your days as a member of polite society are numbered, anyway... You… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Each morning we sat reading our copy of the New York Times, the Washington Post or the Los Angeles Times and ruminated… — Dick Morris Copy Share Image
Will I switch to E-reading? I won't, mainly because I love the look and feel of books - particularly hardbacks. I love… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
In many ways we've become the Babylon of the modern era. We learned our lessons at the feet of Nebuchadnezzar himself. It's… — O. S. Hawkins Copy Share Image
It's funny what [producer Richard Zanuck said about even though you can't quite place when the book or the story came into… — Johnny Depp Copy Share Image
“Anyhow, I had found something out about an unknown privation, and I realized how a general love or craving, before it is… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
“People talk about books being an escape, but here on the tube, this one feels more like a lifeline...The motion of the… — Jennifer E. Smith Copy Share Image
Fiction is more dangerous than nonfiction because it can seduce better. I think we all know this, know that deeper truths can… — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
Reading is merely a surrogate for thinking for yourself; it means letting someone else direct your thoughts. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
We have a reading, a talking, and a writing public. When shall we have a thinking? — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington Copy Share Image
“Remember that the book which bores you when you are twenty or thirty will open doors for you when you are forty… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“Despereaux was reading the story out loud to himself. He was reading from the beginning so that he could get to the… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
“Life isn’t really short. There are just too many good books to read in one lifetime.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
The forbidden things were a great influence on my life. I was forbidden from reading A Catcher in the Rye. — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
As a rule reading fiction is as hard to me as trying to hit a target by hurling feathers at it. I… — William James Copy Share Image
Novelists are always resisting autobiographical readings of their work, because they know how false those can be. — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
You know, in addition to your mind-reading abilities, I may have absorbed some sluttiness from your blood, — Jeaniene Frost Copy Share Image
“Literature takes us away from our grey everyday experience, but brings us back enriched with new sensibilities.” — Willie van Peer Copy Share Image
I love reading. I'm fortunate enough to have signed books by Faulkner, Steinbeck, Thomas Pynchon. — John Larroquette Copy Share Image
“Moreover, people have become accustomed to reading to escape as opposed to reading to think.” — Leigh M. Lane Copy Share Image
Spending one hour with Isaias is far more worthwhile, rewarding and enlightening than reading ten books — Meles Zenawi Copy Share Image
Mom, I really think I should just stay home. I mean Ive got all this AP English summer reading. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
