My mother read secondarily for information; she sank as a hedonist into novels. She read Dickens in the spirit in which she… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
“Reading is a source of liberation. Children who are taught to read early on, are commonly taught to communicate in other significant… — Asa Don Brown Copy Share Image
“The nature of immortality is a mystery,' he says, speaking so softly that we have to lean closer to hear.' But everything… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
“Then I though of reading -- the nice and subtle happiness of reading ... this joy not dulled by age, this polite… — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share Image
As soon as I started reading, I found myself drawn to fictional character's homes as much as I was to the characters… — Mary Kay Andrews Copy Share Image
The advice of a scholar, whose piles of learning were set on fire by imagination, is never to be forgotten. Proportion an… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I found Uriah reading a great fat book, with such demonstrative attention, that his lank forefinger followed up every line as he… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
A common defense among obituary-fanciers such as myself is that the obit is not about death at all. It is about life.… — Tom Rachman Copy Share Image
I read "Women Heroes of World War I" and was absolutely astonished. When we imagine women serving in the First World War,… — Kate Quinn Copy Share Image
I'm not a big crime reader, but I'm reading Michael Connelly's 'The Reversal.' I'm going back to his novels. I'm also reading… — Jo Nesbo Copy Share Image
In the middle of the dream I said to myself 'press pause' and in the dream I said I'm going to write… — David Dayan Fisher Copy Share Image
As a Jew reading about Jesus, I thought, 'He's a pretty good guy.' It's the same conclusion Monty Python drew in 'Life… — David Javerbaum Copy Share Image
The Christians think I am making a mistake by not trying the New Testament and meeting Jesus. The Jews tend to think… — David Plotz Copy Share Image
The first class of readers may be compared to an hour-glass, their reading being as the sand; it runs in and runs… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
It was not a choice of writing or not writing. It was a choice of loving my life or not loving my… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
I love Jane [Krakowski]. Jane's been a dear friend for maybe a dozen years. We've worked together on many shows and concerts… — Cheyenne Jackson Copy Share Image
Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
The thing that inspires me most is reading and just observing the people around me. I think those are the two things… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
“I’ve been reading a heap too—not swimming. I don’t swim. I like baths, though, and they allow the added bonus of being… — Cath Crowley Copy Share Image
“Keep reading. Read during your break at work, before bed, on the bus, in the waiting room. Read at the table, in… — Bookeworm94 Copy Share Image
“It's always so cool to think you are looking at today is something other people have been looking at for centuries. It's… — Sarah Strohmeyer Copy Share Image
The Bible does say, "My house shall be called a house of prayer for all nations." Preaching, music, the reading of the… — Jim Cymbala Copy Share Image
I like reading books where people with a lot of money use it to do whatever they want. Like stay in expensive… — Tao Lin Copy Share Image
Since you are my readers, and I have not been much of a traveler, I will not talk about people a thousand… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I have been reading the Old Testament, a most bloodthirsty and perilous book for the young. Jehovah is beyond doubt the worst… — Edwin Arlington Robinson Copy Share Image
Everybody thought that screen time was bad for vision. Well, it happens that spending a lot of time reading on a computer… — Daphne Bavelier Copy Share Image
“It is the reader who comes to complete the work and to close, albeit temporarily, the world that it opens, and the… — Pierre Bayard Copy Share Image
A man improves more by reading the story of a person eminent for prudence and virtue, than by the finest rules and… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
You might learn as much about how to write by reading Shakespeare, Tolstoy, Wallace Stevens, Raymond Chandler, Saul Bellow, Paul Muldoon or… — David Denby Copy Share Image
“I love staring at my books for hours just trying to decide which book to read next. Doing that is almost as… — Love The Stacks Bookstore Copy Share Image
“There are good reasons to learn how to read. Poetry isn't one of them... Why can't poets just say what they want… — Gary D. Schmidt Copy Share Image
Reading is the royal road to intellectual eminence...Truly good books are more than mines to those who can understand them. They are… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
I don't talk about feelings, but I write a lot about feelings. Reading, that's feminine; writing, that's feminine. It is insane -… — Karl Ove Knausgard Copy Share Image
Reading takes me to a different place than my everyday life. I usually get fully involved in what I'm reading about, so… — Rey Mysterio Copy Share Image
Reading about Queen Victoria has been a passion of mine since, as a child, I came across Laurence Housman's play 'Happy and… — A. N. Wilson Copy Share Image
I've always loved sister stories in fiction, from the time I was little, reading about Beezus and Ramona. I've always wanted to… — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
As a child, what captivated me was reading the poems myself and realizing that there was a world without material substance which… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
I don't think I have a split personality. I believe the same person I am on the field is the same person… — Troy Polamalu Copy Share Image
I've been reading a lot of books on history, and watching a lot of educational TV. Wikipedia too, even though it is… — Vir Das Copy Share Image
My little circle of friends know how twisted my brain is. I'm constantly reading and people always think, 'Ah, we didn't know… — Pamela Anderson Copy Share Image
![“I love Jane [Krakowski]. Jane's been a dear friend for maybe a dozen years. We've worked together on many shows and concerts and readings. We did 'Damn Yankees' together and then we did 'Xanadu.' Jane did all the workshops of 'Xanadu' before it moved to Broadway. She's hysterical and our voices…” quote by Cheyenne Jackson](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/23a/cheyenne-jackson-16863_broadway_i-love-jane-krakowski-jane-s-been-a-dear_2322731.jpg)
