Reading is a pleasure, yes, but not without effort: choosing to read novels purely because they mirror your own experience is stultifying. — Dawn Foster Copy Share Image
“When you read you must get out of your own skin and into the skin of the people you are reading about,… — Norah Lofts Copy Share Image
I think reading is important for a variety of things. I mean, first of all, it's a way to get information and… — Breckin Meyer Copy Share Image
I roused myself from the book which I was dreaming over rather than reading, and left my chambers to meet the cool… — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
I realised that today we are very much interested in reading about subjects that would have also interested people in the 1500s:… — Deborah Harkness Copy Share Image
“Individuals who frequently read fiction seem to be better able to understand other people, empathize with them and see the world from… — Annie Murphy Paul Copy Share Image
The skill set of pastor and comedian are incredibly similar. You want to affect people. You're good at reading rooms. You're persuasive,… — Pete Holmes Copy Share Image
“Reading at meals is considered rude in polite society, but if you expect to succeed as a writer, rudeness should be the… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
What President of the Airline is doing is, he's urging everyone to give up their frequent flyer miles for sick kids... But… — David Cross Copy Share Image
“After ten whole minutes of painful silence, I finally raised my hand and told Mr. O'Hara I loved Miranda Blythe's romance novels,… — Caitlen Rubino-Bradway Copy Share Image
“To write is to carve a new path through the terrain of the imagination, or to point out new features on a… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
It was Sci-Fi and fantasy that got me reading, and Sci-Fi writers in particular have pack rat minds. They introduce all sorts… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Deprived of the opportunity to judge one another by the cars we drive, New Yorkers, thrown together daily on mass transit, form… — David Rakoff Copy Share Image
“I "love" reading. It makes me feel like I am swallowing up Christ, Homer, Confucius, Newton, Franklin, Socrates, Caesar, and the whole… — Moffat Machingura Copy Share Image
What I like best is a book that's at least funny once in a while. What really knocks me out is a… — J. D. Salinger Copy Share Image
For me as a kid, reading cyberpunk was like seeing the world for the first time. Gibson's Neuromancer wasn't just stylistically stunning;… — Paolo Bacigalupi Copy Share Image
Everyone spends so much time on social media and YouTube, all these streaming services, that people kind of forget that reading is… — Iga Swiatek Copy Share Image
I was the kid who read a lot and who was academic, and who was more of an indoor person than an… — Julianne Moore Copy Share Image
No one wants to read poetry. You have to make it impossible for them to put the poem down--impossible for them to… — Muriel Rukeyser Copy Share Image
I was reading everything under the sun from music history to feminist literature to Shakespeare, which is why I'm not a complete… — Emilie Autumn Copy Share Image
“Boys forget what their country means by just reading 'The Land of the Free' in history books. Then they get to be… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I wasn't seeing black girls in the books I was assigned to read at my school. I was tired of only reading… — Marley Dias Copy Share Image
Live theatre for children is right up there in importance with reading aloud. It used to be part of our heritage many… — Rosemary Wells Copy Share Image
“He wanted to run through the stacks, pick at the books, sample them one after the other, climb the stacks to their… — Lavie Tidhar Copy Share Image
“This is every reader's catch-22: the more you read, the more you realize you haven't read; the more you yearn to read… — Pamela Paul Copy Share Image
James Patterson is my favorite author. Very talented. I picked up reading from jail... I realized how powerful reading was in jail.… — Rich Homie Quan Copy Share Image
A few years after my first son was born, he wanted to know how we chose his name, so I began reading… — Boris Becker Copy Share Image
I was the quiet kid in the corner, reading a book. In elementary school, I read so much and so often during… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
I gave my heart to Jesus. I accepted him as my Lord and Savior, started reading the Bible, started going to a… — Patricia Mauceri Copy Share Image
Given the books of a man, it is not difficult, I think, to detect therein the personality of the man, and the… — Richard Henry Stoddard Copy Share Image
Milton almost requires a solemn service of music to be played before you enter upon him. But he brings his music, to… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
My reading is extremely eclectic. Lately I've been teaching myself computer graphics, so I'm reading a lot about that. I read books… — Jack Prelutsky Copy Share Image
Once in a very long time you come across a book that is far, far more than the ink, the glue and… — Tahir Shah Copy Share Image
“I think we should always remember that reading -- the experience of a book -- is a very private, very personal kind… — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
When I was young, I didn't like to read. I would have much rather been outside doing something than been inside reading… — Tony Dungy Copy Share Image
I liked climbing trees and could often be found up one reading a book. I played games with Dad and drew maps… — Rhianna Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Perhaps she was more like him than he’d thought: Her home, too, had consisted of paper and printer’s ink. She probably felt… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
I really think that reading is just as important as writing when you're trying to be a writer because it's the only… — John Green Copy Share Image
If anything has changed about my reading over the years, it is that I value the state a book puts me in… — Sven Birkerts Copy Share Image
I sent The World Well Lost to one editor who rejected it on sight, and then wrote a letter to every other… — Theodore Sturgeon Copy Share Image
