We prize books, and they prize them most who are themselves wise. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Books are only but a mirror of what knowledge we desire, in our minds and in our hearts. — Andrew Guzaldo Copy Share Image
On some level, I think we want our reading self to represent our best self. — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
I'm not only a songwriter but I'm a massive music fan and I love going to shows. It's different than reading a… — Craig Finn Copy Share Image
My life, my reading, everything about me revolves around the cinema. So for me, cinema is life, and vice-versa. — Sergio Leone Copy Share Image
“Move forward for forward is progress but circles are movement.” — Agu Jaachynma N E Copy Share Image
The book that convinced me I wanted to be a writer was 'Crime and Punishment'. I put the thing down after reading… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I am into coaching and punditry, but I do miss being able to run around and kick a football which I can't… — Wayne Bridge Copy Share Image
As a reader, coming to my reading as a writer immersed in fairytales, I can't help but notice in so many stories,… — Kate Bernheimer Copy Share Image
For anyone who is: just keep writing. Keep reading. If you are meant to be a writer, a storyteller, it'll work itself… — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
Literature is about telling stories. Now, the gift of literature is that, in some lucky cases, reading a novel or a story… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
“Trust me, though, the words were on their way, and when they arrived, Liesel would hold them in her hands like the… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
His eyes beheld beauty not in reality but in the printed word. Standing in the waiting-room, he realized that in his life… — Ian Rankin Copy Share Image
I was at a benefit for some imprisoned students in the '60s at San Francisco State, and there were lots of poets… — Thom Gunn Copy Share Image
Reading aloud sounds like a good idea, but honestly, it doesn't work very well. Good dialogue in a book doesn't actually bear… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
From my foster parents, the Deans, I received the love that was ultimately to strengthen me, even when I had forgotten its… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
Unlike television, reading does not swallow the senses or dictate thought. Reading stimulates the ecology of the imagination. Can you remember the… — Richard Louv Copy Share Image
My children haven't read 'Winter Journal'. They have read some of my work, but I really don't foist it on them. I… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Yes, I know, shaming, isn't it? I always say you can take the girl out of the 80s, but you can't take… — Louise Mensch Copy Share Image
The Supreme Court of the United States of America will never under any circumstances allow anyone to be stripped of their citizenship… — Joe Scarborough Copy Share Image
I'm always loath to make generalizations about what is for children and what isn't. Certainly children's literature as a genre has some… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
I grew up in the midst of poverty but every black kid that I knew could read and write. We have to… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
Spiritual reading is a regular, essential part of the life of prayer, and particularly is it the support of adoring prayer. — Evelyn Underhill Copy Share Image
“I like reading and all that, but a crave to get back to the life of my infancy and all its freedom.… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“The animated cartoon has a lot to teach the writer, above all how to define characters and objects with a few strokes.” — Peter Mendelsund Copy Share Image
Kids definitely go into bookstores after reading 'Twilight' and want something else like it. — P. C. Cast Copy Share Image
Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
The head of Fermilab was reading Astonishing Stories when he was ten. — Frederik Pohl Copy Share Image
I am positive I was not a neglected child. I remember reading 'The Jungle Book' and 'The Sleeping Beauty. — Keri Russell Copy Share Image
No one ever comitted suicide while reading a good book, but many have tried while trying to write one. — Ed Byrne Copy Share Image
“Maybe Heaven will be a library. Then I will be able to finish my to-read list.” — Kellie Elmore Copy Share Image
Presidents today spend more time speaking than they do reading or thinking. — Kathleen Hall Jamieson Copy Share Image
“You could learn to read in a few months, easy, and magic and reading are sort of the same thing.” — Sarah Wynde Copy Share Image
But an experienced reader is also a self-aware and critical reader. I can't remember ever reading a story without judging it. — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
I've tried to stop reading comments online because if you believe everything, it makes you feel like rubbish. — Katie Piper Copy Share Image
Society needs youngsters with well-developed personalities and not just bookworms. — Kirron Kher Copy Share Image
