Readers enjoy talking about books almost as much as they like reading. — Donalyn Miller Copy Share Image
Reading liberates you. You could know about the world through reading. — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
Once you create this thing between duty and reading, it's over. Reading's over. — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
A newspaper is ten times more interesting when somebody across the table is reading it? — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I do believe in that thing about the reading audience being very important to the formation of the novel at its birth. — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
“You do what you were made to do. Some of us were made to read and write. Thanks be to God.” — Nancy M. Malone Copy Share Image
I don't want everyone to read anything; I like us all reading different books. — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
“I’m hanging on to your words like you’re my favorite book. And, I’m completely engrossed in every page of who you are.” — Liz Newman Copy Share Image
For the true bookworm it is sometimes hard to distinguish between what one has experienced and what one has read. We know… — Laura Furman Copy Share Image
Books... are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
If men were to be destroyed and the books they have written were to be transmitted to a new race of creatures,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Books have knowledge, knowledge is power, power corrupts, corruption is a crime, and crime doesn't pay..so if you keep reading, you'll go… — Books and music. Facebook Copy Share Image
When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
I saw a poet chase a butterfly in a meadow. He put his net on a bench where a boy sat reading… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
George Saunders is outside of Chicago too. I've met him a few times, actually. I really like him a lot. He's a… — How to Dress Well Copy Share Image
So many (too many) books are published every year, and it seems everyone is writing a book. Perhaps we should all be… — Tracy Chevalier Copy Share Image
Since I'm a fan of collections and anthologies, believe that the best writing often shines in shards and galloping stretches, I never… — James Wolcott Copy Share Image
In art and life we're always reading bodies and behaviors (and skies and skylines or whatever), constructing brief and shifting coherences, and… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
I guess we all feel like underdogs. I remember being a freshman at Brown University and not knowing what a WASP was.… — Stephen Karam Copy Share Image
“He was captured first by the illustrations, and then he began to read, to start with, the stories that dealt with magic,… — William Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
The physical domain of the country had its counterpart in me. The trails I made led outward into the hills and swamps,… — John Haines Copy Share Image
In addition to exploring imaginative worlds, I believe that young people should have access to reading material that validates their life, that… — Theresa Breslin Copy Share Image
To me, when one is writing sometimes about a very specific subject with very specific people, I feel like if that story… — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
When I read a novel that I really like, I feel as if I am in direct, personal communication with the author.… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
