We read for instruction, for correction, and for consolation. — Christina, Queen of Sweden Copy Share Image
To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful... — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
We were taught instead of just reading about life we needed to go out and live it. — Rulon Gardner Copy Share Image
Superman was my first comic back in the '50s; that was me under the bedspread with the flashlight reading comic books. — Jok Church Copy Share Image
Blogging is best learned by blogging...and by reading other bloggers. — George Siemens Copy Share Image
“-Books were once cherished belongings of people, that they weren't always just neglected and collecting dust.” — Barbara Hodgson Copy Share Image
We all know we should eat right and we should exercise, but reading is treated as if it's this wonderful adjunct. — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
In terms of brain development, musical performance is every bit as important educationally as reading or writing. — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
The only thing that you absolutely have to know, is the location of the library. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“The difference between reading a story and studying a story is the difference between living the story and killing the story and… — Cory Doctorow Copy Share Image
I think children love reading, and they will make time for it if we put the right books into their hands. And… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
I love reading other people's diaries, especially someone like Virginia Woolf's - such a formidable woman that it's a revelation when she… — Michael Palin Copy Share Image
Don't underestimate the value people place on authenticity. Politicians listen to the focus groups and say the things they think people want… — Rochelle B Lazarus Copy Share Image
It's a weird thing when you spend your life trying to find these great scripts and great parts. You are reading scripts,… — Chiwetel Ejiofor Copy Share Image
“I felt convinced that however it might have been in former times, in the present stage of the world, no man's faculties… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Copy Share Image
Literature is the human activity that takes the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty — Lionel Trilling Copy Share Image
“Books have a complete disregard for your feelings. They don't care if you are crying. They are going to continue making you… — Love The Stacks Bookstore Copy Share Image
It is almost impossible to open a newspaper without reading something about the London housing market. House prices are rising at such… — David Lammy Copy Share Image
“The girl whose table I occupied was reading a book but I couldn’t help but notice that all this time, she was… — Nico J. Genes Copy Share Image
Travel stories teach geography; insect stories lead the child into natural science; and so on. The teacher, in short, can use reading… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Once I get on something, once I have something that I'm working on, then I become very obsessive. In a good way.… — Annette Bening Copy Share Image
“For me, reading is so much more. Books teach you how other people think, and what they're feeling, and how they change… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
...as parents, we have to find the time and the energy to step in and help our children love reading. We can… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I'm happy to have interns at The Weekly Standard and happy to have readers of The Weekly Standard, but if you all… — William Kristol Copy Share Image
As far as benefits to reading historical novels, there are several! For one thing, you learn about life in another era. Secondly,… — Mary Pope Osborne Copy Share Image