“Love is staring into someone's eyes, and not being able to imagine more” — S.E. SEVER Copy Share Image
Stupidity consists in wanting to reach conclusions. We are a thread, and we want to know the whole cloth. — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
There is as much trickery required to grow rich by a stupid book as there is folly in buying it. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
When you are reading something and you have people pop up in your head you are just sort of stuck with it. — Anne Fletcher Copy Share Image
“You know what it's like to *lose* yourself in a story. We have brother and sister *souls*.” — Mike Carey Copy Share Image
The best effect of any book is that it excites the reader to self activity. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
This must be a gift book. That is to say a book, which you wouldn't take on any other terms. — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
Writing is 90 percent procrastination: reading magazines, eating cereal out of the box, watching infomercials. — Paul Rudnick Copy Share Image
I have always suspected that the reading is right, which requires many words to prove it wrong; and the emendation wrong, that… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
She is a real bookworm. I think she lives on print. Her whole house is full of books - looks as if… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
I think I made a mistake with [Jane] Austen by reading all six in a row. There are similarities to the plots… — Stephen Dobyns Copy Share Image
My father assigned me to keep his scrapbooks. At first I was interested in reading only his rave notices, but I got… — Dorothy Fields Copy Share Image
I was reading my son some fables; it made for good nighttime reading. These stories were very vivid and very strange and… — Patrick deWitt Copy Share Image
“And no matter what anybody says, I don't believe all this trouble started when women got the vote. As far as I'm… — Susan Elizabeth Phillips Copy Share Image
“The more you read, the more you will find your thoughts and conversation reflecting your reading, and the more you will want… — Nancy Wilson Copy Share Image
“His reading suggested a man swimming in the sea among the wreckage of his ship, and trying to save his life by… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“Once I am at leisure, said Salvatore, I take refuge in prose as one might in a boat. All day long I… — W.G. Sebald Copy Share Image
For the grand and inescapable tradition of western literary classics confronts us with fundamental choices over our understanding of words, reading and… — Os Guinness Copy Share Image
“Human existence is temporary and all the knowledge of the universe we acquire will in time be forgotten because there will be… — John Green Copy Share Image
“I had seen myself, a portrait of myself as a reader. My childhood: hours spent in airless classrooms, days home sick from… — Audrey Niffenegger Copy Share Image
About 15 years ago I went though a period of a year or so when I just couldn't find anything good. My… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
One of the most insidious myths in American wine culture is that a wine is good if you like it. Liking a… — Karen MacNeil Copy Share Image
“You read a book for the story, for each of its words," Gordy said, "and you draw your cartoons for the story,… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
The church itself has got to go outside of its own borders and carry the gospel to ev'ry creature, or it is… — Edward Everett Hale Copy Share Image
“Nothing great was ever achieved without a personal sacrifice. You have to pay the price to realize your goals.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
The whole of the day should not be daytime; there should be one hour, if not more, which the day did not… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“I roused myself from the book which I was dreaming over rather than reading,” — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
“But I wasn't a well-read bookworm; I was just a dumb whore in the right library.” — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“What novels did you read when you were young, dear? I'm convinced it all turns on that.” — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
“Have you never picked up a book you've read before, and found it speaks to you in a new way?” — Django Wexler Copy Share Image
“Author’s note: what is “close reading? The short answer: without context. Before” — Terry Marselle Copy Share Image
I'm at my best when I'm being genuine and sincere, and reading my material straight up to an audience that wants to… — James Bernard Frost Copy Share Image
You have to remember that it is impossible to commit a crime while reading a book. — John Waters Copy Share Image
“Writers aren't born, they're made--from practice, reading, and a lot of caffeine. And sometimes tutelage.” — Alexander Chee Copy Share Image
Writing this book required an enormous amount of help from friends. To them goes the credit. I'll take the money. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
You cannot get PTSD from reading a book or from hearing a story, even repeated stories over and over. — Dale Archer Copy Share Image
BIBLIOBLISS. Transported into states of transcendent pleasure while immersed in reading a favorite book. — Rob Brezsny Copy Share Image
I couldn't think of anything more pointless than reading a piece of fiction written by a robot. — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
“For all I know, writing comes out of a superior devotion to reading.” — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
“the day women are allowed to learn to read and write the world will become ungovernable.” — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
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