I want to write so well that a person is 30 or 40 pages in a book of mine ... before she realizes she's reading. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
You can't judge an album by a single song; it's like judging a book by only reading a single chapter. — Trevor Rabin Copy Share Image
I know the action in the street is excitin' But Jesus, between all the bleedin’ ‘n fightin’ I’ve been readin’ ‘n writin’. — Lin-Manuel Miranda Copy Share Image
One of the best ways to expand his horizon is through a regular reading program. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Seeing someone reading something I wrote on an airplane - things like that are pretty awesome. — Ben Mezrich Copy Share Image
“Reading is the life-saving water for our minds. Drink pure words as much as you need and remain alive!” — Munia Khan Copy Share Image
Books are to be called for and supplied on the assumption that the process of reading is not a half-sleep, but in… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
I communicate much better with cats, usually. I know them and their body language - as my own cats know mine very… — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
People seldom read a book which is given to them; and few are given. The way to spread a work is to… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I grew up reading comics - mostly Marvel - Doctor Strange was my favourite comic book and has remained my favourite as… — Scott Derrickson Copy Share Image
“I think books find their way to you when you need them. Whenever I feel like I'm not going to live to… — Rosanne Cash Copy Share Image
We are savages insides. We all want to be the chosen, the beloved, the esteemed. There isn't a person reading this who… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
I enjoy reading about the lives of musicians, and find many similarities in their ideas of preparation and their utter devotion to… — Jessye Norman Copy Share Image
When I read a book, I put in all the imagination I can, so that it is almost like writing the book… — Dodie Smith Copy Share Image
“Daydreaming does not enjoy tremendous prestige in our culture, which tends to regard it as unproductive thought. Writers perhaps appreciate its importance… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
A good book is the very essence of a good man. His virtues survive in it, while the foibles and faults of… — Theodore L. Cuyler Copy Share Image
It is not the reading of many books which is necessary to make a man wise or good, but the well-reading of… — Richard Baxter Copy Share Image
Everyone deserves love and appreciation. If there is someone in the world whom we do not love, it is our blessing to… — David Wilcock Copy Share Image
Reading Homicide by David Simon was the first time I said, "What if this was in a world of superheroes?" That was… — Brian Michael Bendis Copy Share Image
What an astonishing thing a book is. It's a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“Shelves full of books are all around me. Opening the different volumes I take a look, and find the pages covered with… — Jonathan D. Spence Copy Share Image
I love being on stage if I'm not on a set. If I'm at home, I'm usually in my office editing or… — Dane Cook Copy Share Image
“Exploring the layers of the earth is like reading the pages of a book.” — James W. Mercer Copy Share Image
If you enjoy books with happy endings than you are better off reading some other book. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“If you aren’t affected somehow, even in the slightest bit, you aren’t reading the right book.” — Anna Todd Copy Share Image
Whether or not this story has a happy ending depends, of course, on who is reading it. Whether you are a wolf… — Kelly Link Copy Share Image
I'm reading a book about Romaine Brooks, a wonderful painter from early in the last century. — Lawrence Ferlinghetti Copy Share Image
“...too much time spent with books had not fitted her to be easy with herself, and other people.” — Jo Baker Copy Share Image
If you want to have a creative culture, you can't get it by reading books. You get it by example. — Barbara Corcoran Copy Share Image
I probably shouldn't admit this since I work in the tech industry, but I still prefer reading paper books. — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
It is not enough to simply teach children to read; we have to give them something worth reading. — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
The habit of reading is the only one I know in which there is no alloy. It lasts when all other pleasures… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
The cover, thickness and knowledge in a book often has little value, the secret is to know when to turn the page. — Stanley Victor Paskavich Copy Share Image
I just wanna be rich enough to have Morgan Freeman read me bedtime stories. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Reading gives us somewhere to go when we have to stay where we are.” — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
I either like reading fun war-based sci-fi, books about the lives of chefs, or dry historical non-fiction. — Michael Seibel Copy Share Image
Read at the level at which you want to write. Reading is the nourishment that feeds the kind of writing you want… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
We get used to things, and we like reading the way we're used to reading. — Michael Bierut Copy Share Image
