The readings are at once instant in their appeal, and lingering in their impact. — Andrew Motion Copy Share Image
“So much of one's life was spent reading; it made sense not to do it alone.” — Chad Harbach Copy Share Image
Reading to kids is to ordinary reading what jazz is to a string quartet. — Sean Wilentz Copy Share Image
“A single poem, alone can turn tides scatter galaxies and burst forth with rivers from paradise.” — Sanober Khan Copy Share Image
Political freedom, as the Western world has known it, is only a political reading of the Bible. — Whittaker Chambers Copy Share Image
They like my books better in England than in France; a translation would be very successful there. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Someday I intend reading… — Groucho Marx Copy Share Image
I finished reading High Output Management by Andrew Grove, which had such valuable insights for leaders that I've been forcing managers at… — Luis von Ahn Copy Share Image
My love of poetry comes from the "actualization" I experienced in the poetry of others. And I was reading it silently and… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
I'm often reading a magazine and hearing about someone's new record, and I think, 'Oh, boy, that's gonna be better than me.'… — Paul McCartney Copy Share Image
I fell in love with reading when I was allowed to choose whatever books I wanted to check out of the library.… — Adriana Trigiani Copy Share Image
When I first got interested in comics at the time I was studying architecture and I discovered comics as a medium through… — Francoise Mouly Copy Share Image
“All the reading she had done had given her a view of life that they had never seen. If only they would… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
What was transformative was being at the inauguration, reading my poem, and realizing that the quest for home and identity had always… — Richard Blanco Copy Share Image
At one point I felt a tension between objects, their real, physical lives, and the idea of meaning: the physical, material reality… — Sergio Chejfec Copy Share Image
It can be dismaying, all the same, for a novelist to compare the slowness of the writing with the speed of the… — Graham Swift Copy Share Image
Our house was littered with books- in the kitchen, under the beds, stuck between the couch pillows--far too many for her the… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
I grew up on welfare in the South Bronx; I had a very tough upbringing in that neighborhood. Reading books like The… — Andrea Navedo Copy Share Image
If you want to be a fiction writer, you need to start reading like a fiction writer. To do so, you need… — John McNally Copy Share Image
Digressions, incontestably, are the sunshine, the life, the soul of reading! Take them out and one cold eternal winter would reign in… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
“Men who read a lot have a more sensitive disposition, added Fowler. [...] I did not know what to say to this.… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
“You should read this book’ almost never simply means you should read this book. It is usually far more fraught. Telling someone… — Pamela Paul Copy Share Image
The writing of solid, instructive stuff fortified by facts and figures is easy enough. There is no trouble in writing a scientific… — Stephen Leacock Copy Share Image
...you can look forward to reading - I swear this is true - Microsoft Bob for Dummies. — Josh Quittner Copy Share Image
“When reading I pretend I’m an editor, though when writing I realize I’m not.” — Fierce Dolan Copy Share Image
“Reading is the least laborious of all the tasks that fall to the student's lot.” — Quintilian Copy Share Image
Reading that pleases and profits, that together delights and instructs, has all that one should desire. — Jacques Amyot Copy Share Image
One of the pleasures of reading old letters is the knowledge that they need no answer. — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
I don't think contemporary writers spend a lot of time reading each other. Particularly writers of the same nationality. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
My mother is an actress, and she used to drag me from theater to theater and reading to reading. — Alicia Keys Copy Share Image
If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I suppose you set up reading the Good Book all night-spoken by Woodrow Call — Larry McMurtry Copy Share Image
Listening to Eric Taylor is better than reading a Larry McMurtry novel and easier on the eyes. — Ralston Bowles Copy Share Image
Reading forces you to be quiet in a world that no longer makes place for that. — John Green Copy Share Image
One trouble with developing speed reading skills is that by the time you realize a book is boring you've already finished it. — Franklin P. Jones Copy Share Image
It is so human a book that I don't see how belief in its divine authority can survive the reading of it. — William James Copy Share Image
I think, especially when you're in college, each book that you're reading tends to tell you who you are. — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
“Let’s get it over and the door closed shut on it! Let’s close it like a book and go on reading! New… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
In Ski Party we are reading up on how to have fun without sex. That was the theme of every AIP picture! — Dwayne Hickman Copy Share Image
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