My father was an angry and impatient teacher and flung the reading book at my head. — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
“For me, reading was adventure,but most of all, reading was escape-” — Andrew E. Kaufman Copy Share Image
The home is the child's first school, the parent is the child's first teacher, and reading is the child's first subject. — Barbara Bush Copy Share Image
The chief knowledge that a man gets from reading books is the knowledge that very few of them are worth reading. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Reading books everyone died, none became any wise. One who reads the word of Love, only becomes wise. — Kabir Copy Share Image
Most of humanity gets by without reading novels or poetry, and no one would deny the richness of their thoughts. — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
Reading without understanding is like swallowing food without chewing. — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image
If a book comes from the heart, it will contrive to reach other hearts; all art and author-craft are of small amount… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Focusing on the way I look makes me uncomfortable. I try to focus on the way I feel - I know what… — Elle Macpherson Copy Share Image
What word or expression do you most overuse? Re-reading a collection of my stuff, I was rather startled to find that it… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Many people tell me that they don 't know what to feel when they finish one of my books because the story… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Though not all reading children grow up to be writers, I take it that most creative writers must in their day have… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
“Winny didn't know what he would do without his books, except probably go berserk and start killing people and making ashtrays out… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
A ready way to lose your friend is to lend him money. Another equally ready way to lose him is to refuse… — George Jean Nathan Copy Share Image
“He has described in precise, measured words the beautiful desolation he feels at the close of novels where the message is that… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
“When I was sixteen I read ten books a week: E.E. Cummings, William Faulkner, Henry James, Hart Crane, John Steinbeck. I thought… — Donald Hall Copy Share Image
The more you come to know the Bible - both in reading it extensively and also meditating on it deeply - the… — Mark Dever Copy Share Image
It is easier for the reader to judge, by a thousand times, than for the writer to invent. The writer must summon… — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
Today's reading was "if they ask you to walk a mile, walk two. Don't take an eye for an eye or a… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
I did not learn my theology all at once, but had to search constantly deeper and deeper for it. My temptations did… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
A book is really like a lover. It arranges itself in your life in a way that is beautiful. Even as a… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
“He enjoyed reading and writing. He liked words. Words didn't shout or make loud noises, which pretty much defined the rest of… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“You are created to be a creator. God does not give anyone a finished product. God did not create the telephone, car,… — Patience Johnson Copy Share Image
I began reading Harper Lee's novel in the skimpy shade of a pine outside my grandmother's house, fat beagles pressing against me,… — Rick Bragg Copy Share Image
For her, reading was directly linked to pleasure, not to knowledge or enigmas or constructions or verbal labyrinths… — Roberto Bolano Copy Share Image
“There was a lot to be learned about a person by their reading material. “You’ve” — Catherine Bybee Copy Share Image
“A confident woman wears a smile and has this air of comfortability and pleasantness about her.” — Agu Jaachynma N.E Copy Share Image
“Reading can only take you so far, up to the moment where you must take action with your own hands” — Rae Carson Copy Share Image
I am an old consumer of papers. I cannot avoid reading my newspapers every morning. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
We make pretty uninteresting reading, I suppose. I mean, we're just another group making records, aren't we? — Elizabeth Fraser Copy Share Image
I like to read because it's the opposite of being on the go. Reading is the perfect antidote. — Joe Strummer Copy Share Image
I just got out of the hospital. I was in a speed-reading accident. I hit a bookmark. — Steven Wright Copy Share Image
It's doubtful that any fiction worth reading has been produced on a computer running Windows Vista. — Lynn Coady Copy Share Image
I didn't grow up reading magazines; I was very much in an environment where that would have been deemed trivial, frivolous. — Dervla Kirwan Copy Share Image
I've always been drawn to dark stories. I enjoy reading Flannery O'Connor, Patricia Highsmith, and Margaret Mitchell. — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
“I was a shy girl, but when I read, I was adventurous. Books made me bolder.” — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
Reading was a joy, a desperately needed escape -- I didn't read to learn, I was reading to read. — Christian Bauman Copy Share Image
“Every crisis is a wisdom crisis. If you have no peace around you then you lack wisdom.” — Patience Johnson Copy Share Image
“Without a doubt, I must read, all the books I've read about. See the artworks hung on hooks, that I have only,… — Lang Leav Copy Share Image
