Reading the Gospels, without the personality of Jesus, is like watching television with the sound turned off. — John Eldredge Copy Share Image
Her reputation for reading a great deal hung about her like the cloudy envelope of a goddess in an epic. — Henry James Copy Share Image
I used to live a very social life and never spend much solitary time looking at birds or reading. — Lynda Barry Copy Share Image
“So long as ignorance and misery remain on earth, books like this cannot be useless.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
I'm constantly reading books on God or the absence of God and atheism. — Liam Neeson Copy Share Image
“reading is like an aeroplane it allows you to travell all over with just a book in your hand” — Annakay Gordon Copy Share Image
“Because while she's so pre-occupied reading... I'm so pre-occupied reading her.” — Jay McLean Copy Share Image
There isn't any distinction between a reader and a writer - reading is so much a part of it. — Dermot Healy Copy Share Image
Edward Conard provides a provocative interpretation of the causes of the global financial crisis and the policies needed to return to rapid… — Nouriel Roubini Copy Share Image
TV and film were always governing passions of mine, and that first wave of great HBO shows in the early years of… — Nic Pizzolatto Copy Share Image
I came home one day and Nick was in his bedroom reading 'To Kill a Mockingbird,' and the tears were just flowing… — David Sheff Copy Share Image
“This idea that the buying, or even the reading, of books is an expensive hobby and beyond the reach of the average… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
[People who have left the ISIS] say that there comes a moment when the inconsistencies and apparent hypocrisies of their sheikh lets… — Rukmini Maria Callimachi Copy Share Image
I haven't read for pleasure in 35 years. I mean, I get a lot of pleasure from what I read... For me,… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
It's like the code of living by yourself. People who are single know what I'm talking about. You eat standing up, reading… — Mary Chapin Carpenter Copy Share Image
You ever talk about a movie with someone that read the book? They're always so condescending. 'Ah, the book was much better… — Jim Gaffigan Copy Share Image
“But what might be written in the book which had rounded its edges off in his pocket, she did not know. What… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
We ought not to confine ourselves either to writing or to reading; the one, continuous writing, will cast a gloom over our… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
If your starting point for understanding humanity is a racialist viewpoint, with superiority and inferiority projected onto people because of the color… — Allan Boesak Copy Share Image
“Description is what makes the reader a sensory participant in the story. Good description is a learned skill,one of the prime reasons… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Festivals are where I see other peoples' films, where we talk, where I get to learn what was working about the film,… — Debra Granik Copy Share Image
My days I devote to reading and experiments in chemistry, and I spend many of the clear nights in the study of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One of the reasons that I take such joy in being a trustee of the New York Public Library is the love… — Jessye Norman Copy Share Image
“The endless piles of genre fiction are the key to happiness. They’re the key to picking out the things that actually make… — Steven Lloyd Wilson Copy Share Image