“Books can look dangerous or precious, depending on which side you're looking from, from office or from the streets.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Oh this? It's a 'bookworm.' They live in books, and they love to eat important or valuable words.” — CLAMP Copy Share Image
We find little in a book but what we put there. But in great books, the mind finds room to put many… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Too many of our children cannot read. Reading is the building block, and it must be the foundation for education reform. — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
If you like reading, you are allowed to like to dance and to like to sing and to like to act. — Marley Dias Copy Share Image
I keep a quotes journal - of every sentence that I've wanted to remember from my reading of the past 30 years. — Richard Powers Copy Share Image
Nothing new that is really interesting comes without collaboration — James D. Watson Copy Share Image
Reading books about enlightenment does not make you enlightened at all. You have to meditate yourself. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It's a comedy thriller, brilliantly written and it's full of twists and turns at every page. When I was reading it I… — Louise Jameson Copy Share Image
I am reading "The Yellow Birds" by Kevin Powers and "Redeployment" by Phil Klay . Both Powers and Klay are Iraq War… — George Packer Copy Share Image
Reading-not occasionally, not only on vacation but everyday-gives me nourishment and enlarges my life in mysterious and essential ways. — Mona Simpson Copy Share Image
Meditation is the one thing I do every day - meditate, pray. I do reading in the morning and try to center… — Mason Jennings Copy Share Image
Even before I started going to movies, I loved the idea of them. When I started learning to read as a kid,… — Alonso Duralde Copy Share Image
“A great book allows me to leap over that wall: in a deep, significant conversation with another consciousness, I feel human and… — David Shields Copy Share Image
Before 'This is Our Youth', I did a week of table reading 'Airline Highway' at Steppenwolf in Chicago while the author, Lisa… — Tavi Gevinson Copy Share Image
I even feel guilty if I'm reading a novel, because I think I should be reading Homer again. I don't really know… — Simon Armitage Copy Share Image
I know that for every reader who has lost the habit or can't find the time, there are people who've never enjoyed… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
I don't know what it is about human beings but most of us really like reading about or observing sexual tension and… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
In Radical Optimism, Beatrice Bruteau sets forth a deep and shining vision of spirituality, one that guides the reader into the contemplative… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“I don’t have the heart to tell my sons that the older one gets, the less funny literature becomes—and they would refuse… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
He [Hemingway] used a stand-up work place he had fashioned out of the top of of a bookcase near his bed. His… — A. E. Hotchner Copy Share Image
When the Day of Judgment dawns and people, great and small, come marching in to receive their heavenly rewards, the Almighty will… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I was on my own at Wellesley, surrounded by a lot of young women who were motivated and intellectually curious. I started… — Elisabeth Shue Copy Share Image
Being a reader is sort of like being president, except reading involves fewer state dinners, usually. You have this agenda you want… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“Чтение-вот лучшее учение!(Reading is the best doctrine!)” — Александр Сергеевич Пушкин Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin Copy Share Image