Nothing new that is really interesting comes without collaboration — James D. Watson Copy Share Image
We find little in a book but what we put there. But in great books, the mind finds room to put many… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Too many of our children cannot read. Reading is the building block, and it must be the foundation for education reform. — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
“Oh this? It's a 'bookworm.' They live in books, and they love to eat important or valuable words.” — CLAMP Copy Share Image
“Books can look dangerous or precious, depending on which side you're looking from, from office or from the streets.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I'm about to start reading it again, because what good is a story you only want to read once?” — Bill Willingham Copy Share Image
He's got his dog trained so that it only does it on newspapers. The trouble is it does it when he's reading… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
One week I was in school and the next I'm at Leavesden Studios in Dumbledore's office reading scenes with Daniel Radcliffe. Weird.… — Evanna Lynch Copy Share Image
I was unloading sides of beef down on the docks when I decided enough was enough. By then, I'd done a lot… — Frank McCourt Copy Share Image
It wasn't until I was 23 and got married to a guy who was really bookish that I got completely hooked on… — Lisa Jewell Copy Share Image
It hurts a lot when you cannot really comprehend what a person is saying in a meeting, or you don't even understand… — Mary J. Blige Copy Share Image
I watch virtually no TV. All my screen time is computer time for me. When I'm not doing that I'm reading or… — Patrick Collison Copy Share Image
People take England on trust, and repeat that Shakespeare is the greatest of all authors. I have read him: there is nothing… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
When you're reading, you're laughing and not quite noticing what's happening. One second you're still kind of chuckling, and then all of… — Moshe Kasher Copy Share Image
I have nothing else to tell; unless, indeed, I were to confess that no one can ever believe this narrative, in the… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“When a reader falls in love with a book, it leaves its essence inside him, like radioactive fallout in an arable field,… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“It doesn't matter what you read. What matters is you read. Whether it’s Tolstoy or Twilight, Kierkegaard or Betty and Veronica, keep… — Trent Zelazny Copy Share Image
“My mother neither encouraged the reading of science fiction nor did she disparage it. She told me later that there was a… — Don Borchert Copy Share Image
I have been reading Madame Roland's memoirs and have come to the conclusion that she was a very over-rated woman; snobbish, vain,… — Madame Roland Copy Share Image
There is no need for the scientist to go into whether an observation was made, nor into the who, what, when, or… — Ernest Sosa Copy Share Image
Even my colleagues don't read classic criticism. And my feeling is that if you don't do that then you're not really practicing… — Gary Giddins Copy Share Image
Squeeze your eyes closed, as tight as you can, and think of all your favorite autumns, crisp and perfect, all bound up… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
“I was sitting there, as I said, and had been for several watches, when I came to me that I was reading… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
Losing Chloe had been like reading a wonderfulook only to realize that all the pages past a certain point were blank. — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
A novelist has two lives-- a reading and writing life, and a lived life. he or she cannot be understood at all… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
“I would hate to die for a lot of reasons. But mostly because of all the books I haven't yet read.” — Peg Lynch Copy Share Image
The odd thing about people who had many books was how they always wanted more. — Patricia A. McKillip Copy Share Image
“You've got the look of a girl who's no stranger to the page. I can tell. You've got words in your soul.” — Jay Kristoff Copy Share Image
“there’s a bigger social reward for being able to talk about books than for actually reading them.” — William Deresiewicz Copy Share Image
Just a little every day That's the way Children learn to read and write Bit by bit and mite by mite. — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
There's nothing funnier to me than reading people analyze 'David Pumpkins.' — Mikey Day Copy Share Image
It is important early in life to acquire the power of reading sense wherever you happen to be. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“The problem with reading a good book is trying to cope after it's finished.” — Devonnie A. Black Copy Share Image
“For my success I am immensely grateful to God, my parents, my family, my friends, my teachers and to the books I… — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
With books like 'AD: After Death' and 'Wytches,' a lot of those things are inspired by reading things that terrify me. — Scott Snyder Copy Share Image
Reading the [The Verso Book of Dissent] is like encountering the best version of our angry selves. — Jonathan Messinger Copy Share Image