“We bring to everything we read the expectations we have built up by a lifetime of reading.” — Richard Marius Copy Share Image
He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the more refined art of skipping and… — Arthur Balfour Copy Share Image
[A formula for answering controversial letters -- without even reading the letters:] Dear Sir (or Madame): You may be right. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
I was always working, so I would get reading done very late at night a lot of times. — Frank Caliendo Copy Share Image
For whatever reason, people, including very well-educated people or people otherwise interested in reading, do not read poetry — Paul Muldoon Copy Share Image
I have never experienced a sorrow that was not relieved by an hour of reading. — Daniel Pennac Copy Share Image
“If this were a novel, I'd stop reading right now. I'd throw it across the room.” — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
Reading inspirational and motivational quotes daily is like taking my vitamins. — Rosanne Cash Copy Share Image
I'm a huge fan of 'The Lost Weekend.' I have this dog-eared copy of the 1963 Time Reading Program edition, which was… — Blake Bailey Copy Share Image
Expand the definition of 'reading' to include non-fiction, humor, graphic novels, magazines, action adventure, and, yes, even websites. It's the pleasure of… — Jon Scieszka Copy Share Image
“It is just as honorable. . .to dig in the dirt as to dig into books. The mind can do its best… — William Warren Prescott Copy Share Image
I went to something like six different schools before the age of 12, so I was always the new girl and had… — Isla Fisher Copy Share Image
What reading does, ultimately, is keep alive the dangerous and exhilarating idea that life is not a sequence of lived moments, but… — Sven Birkerts Copy Share Image
You look at Vladimir Radmanovic, this guy is cut from stone. As if Michelangelo was reading and a lightning bolt flashed before… — Bill Walton Copy Share Image
A person can do a lot of reading and research as I have done. I went to Spain and spent a whole… — Maya Beiser Copy Share Image
I grew up reading a lot of fantasy/sci-fi. It was really all I read - anything from 'Dragonlance,' when I was 12,… — Kris Holden-Ried Copy Share Image
The U.S. is telling the Northern Alliance to kill Taliban prisoners. It's totally a breach of all the known conventions of war.… — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
“I recognized it instantly. It was a made-up story, a fantasy, the tale of four kids who went through a magic wardrobe… — Julie Kagawa Copy Share Image
You gain all of the rights and privileges and respects that are afforded the majority, and that's ultimately what matters for your… — Todd Haynes Copy Share Image
“I was always bad at reading scripts. Back then, I’d be offered millions of dollars to do movies and barely crack the… — Matthew Perry Copy Share Image
I think you can perform any poem. But what I believe is that the best examples of spoken word poetry I've ever… — Sarah Kay Copy Share Image
when I walk into an apartment with books on the shelves, books on the bedside tables, books on the floor, and books… — Anne Fadiman Copy Share Image
“Almost I feel the pulsebeat of the ages, Now swift, now slow, beneath my fingertips. The heartthrobs of the prophets and the… — Grace Noll Crowell Copy Share Image
“The Kraken was somewhat obsessed with posture. As for Lily, she barely gave it a second thought. In her opinion it was… — Peter Bunzl Copy Share Image
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