It's such a wonderful feeling to watch a child discover that reading is a marvelous adventure rather than a chore. — Zilpha Keatley Snyder Copy Share Image
There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates' loot on Treasure Island... — Walt Disney Copy Share Image
Holding a menu at arm's length, peering at anything that required reading, made me feel so old. — Bonnie Tyler Copy Share Image
Enlightened people like Osho are ahead of their times. It is good that more and more young people are now reading his… — K. R. Narayanan Copy Share Image
There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“We invent fictions in order to live somehow the many lives we would like to lead when we barely have one at… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
I took the speed reading course and read 'War and Peace' in twenty minutes. It's about Russia. — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
“Writers are not just writers, they are creators of worlds, sculptors of the mind, they are architects of language.” — Jamie L. Harding Copy Share Image
Most of the words you know and love and use every day are not words you learned by looking them up in… — Erin McKean Copy Share Image
When you're writing for the New York Times someone reading it knows the topic better than you do and knows when you've… — David Plotz Copy Share Image
I'm reading 'Ten Storey Love Song' by Richard Milward. I read his first novel, 'Apples,' after hearing a reading of his in… — Jed Mercurio Copy Share Image
Reading any piece of writing aloud is an acid test, particularly when it comes to dialogue. There were writers I'd always admired… — Anne Tyler Copy Share Image
With three of my own children, I have witnessed first-hand the vital role reading has played as part of their childhood and… — Harry Enfield Copy Share Image
Kids are no longer interested in reading comic books; they've got television and the electronic games that they can bury themselves in… — Al Feldstein Copy Share Image
I had always owned them to be the Word of God... the careful reading of the Acts afforded me a practical picture… — John Nelson Darby Copy Share Image
My ideal viewer is an 11-year-old girl who, like me, was once reading a book by Jean Plaidy and might be in… — Lucy Worsley Copy Share Image
“And if I'm guilty of having gratuitous sex, then I'm also guilty of having gratuitous violence, and gratuitous feasting, and gratuitous description… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
“It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own. You… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
I suppose she chose me because she knew my name; as I read the alphabet a faint line appeared between her eyebrows,… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
There were many books in my parents' home. I'm from a family of five children and we were all readers. And so… — Jaume Cabre Copy Share Image
The saving of empty beer and liquor bottles is a strange college phenomenon. I bet most of you college students reading this… — Aaron Karo Copy Share Image
“Reading's ability to beam you up to a different world is a good part of the reason why people like me do… — Sara Nelson Copy Share Image
I look to everyday magic in art to remember how to live: how to estrange and vivify ordinary objects and beings. So… — Noy Holland Copy Share Image
“There is an unbridgeable chasm between the book that traditions had declared a classic and the book (the same book) that we… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
“Reading great books gives insight to the mind of great souls.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
