Encourage your children to read more and watch television less. — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
“There's a difference between preferring books to parties and preferring sixteen cats to seeing the light of day.” — Lauren Morrill Copy Share Image
Lord Ashcroft's 2005 report 'Smell the Coffee' made uncomfortable reading for the Conservatives. — Nicky Morgan Copy Share Image
I didn't go to school much, so I taught myself what I knew from reading. — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
Reading is looked at like it's corny or lame, but you'd be surprised what you can find in a book. — Jaylen Brown Copy Share Image
I am extremely passionate about reading and like to read about anything and everything under the sun. — Asin Copy Share Image
“Do you read them? Faulkner, Hemingway, Fitzgerald?" "Only if I have to. I try to avoid old dead white men.” — John Grisham Copy Share Image
“Authors: The only people you thank for leaving you emotionally devastated.” — Love The Stacks Bookstore Copy Share Image
“A clever schoolboy's reaction to his reading is most naturally expressed by parody or imitation.” — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Reading yourself as a fiction as well as a fact is the only way to keep the narrative open - the only… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I found out a long time ago that if I indulged by stuffing my face with great food, lying about reading books… — Raquel Welch Copy Share Image
The other day when we were reading The Little Mermaid again, at the part where it says that only human souls can… — Ekaterina Gordeeva Copy Share Image
“I use the time to finish reading Of Mice and Men, which turns out to be just as awful as I thought… — Hannah Harrington Copy Share Image
After the war, I went to the BBC monitoring service in Caversham, a suburb of Reading. It was a big aerial system… — Michael Bond Copy Share Image
Mine is a European imagination, shaped largely by my very promiscuous reading in German, French, English and, with greater difficulty, Italian. — W. G. Sebald Copy Share Image
“Once he'd asked, "Don't you want to read? There are hundreds of books in the sitting room." She had laughed and said,… — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
It always struck me as pretty cool that people who changed the world often knew each other. After reading them separately, hearing… — Joe Lonsdale Copy Share Image
Most of us, however committed we are to our ideals, will find ourselves every now and again reading an attention-grabbing headline from… — Mallory Ortberg Copy Share Image
It's true that you might be socially isolated because you're reading in the library, at home and so on, but you're intensely… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
I remember thinking that people were crazy for reading the same book more than once, but I now have a new-found appreciation… — Rachel Nichols Copy Share Image
I'm not going to tell you the movies, but I remember getting halfway through the thing and everything sort of tunnel-visioned on… — John Corbett Copy Share Image
Reading was like an addiction; I read while I ate, on the train, in bed until late at night, in school, where… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Well, right now I'm not dead. But when I am, it's like...I don't know, I guess it's like being inside a book… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
“I would never attempt to dissuade anyone from reading a book. But please, if you're reading something that's killing you, put it… — Nick Hornby (Author Copy Share Image
The most heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence together; nature and art are ransacked for illustrations, comparisons, and allusions; their learning instructs,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
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