We read for instruction, for correction, and for consolation. — Christina, Queen of Sweden Copy Share Image
Writing reminds you that you're never alone. Writing and reading is to be optimistic. — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
Artists have a sensibility that others don't have. They have a way of reading into the future. — John Elkann Copy Share Image
“Leiam o que os apaixone, apenas isso os ajudará a suportar a existência.” — Ernesto Sábato Copy Share Image
You will never have the answers, but you have to keep pushing yourself and keep reading and keep working on yourself. — Benjamin Booker Copy Share Image
“Books and workshops and gurus are great, but the very best teacher for your mind is, and will always be, your heart.” — Scott Stabile Copy Share Image
“I often feel sorry for people who don't read good books; they are missing a chance to lead an extra life.” — Scott Corbett Copy Share Image
You must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance. — Confucius Copy Share Image
People ask how I think up my thoughts. Mostly I think them up while reading Paul Simon's lyrics. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
“Can there be any greater pleasure than to come across an author one enjoys and then to find they have written not… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
“Kay came to realize that she preferred her books to other people’s company. Reading was not a fallback position for her but… — Laura Lippman Copy Share Image
It's rare for me to read any fiction. I almost only read nonfiction. I don't believe in guilty pleasures, I only believe… — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
My grandfather was a newspaper publisher and his paper had all the comics in NYC, so some of my earliest memories are… — Rick Moody Copy Share Image
True religion comes not front the teaching of men or the reading of books; it is the awakening of the spirit within… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I like to take a long time over breakfast, and I can't bear to talk. If a guest is a breakfast talker… — Julian Fellowes Copy Share Image
I don't always, or even usually, read stories from beginning to end. I start anywhere and proceed in either direction. A story… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
“No matter what our curriculum requires us to teach or how little class time we have, children must read a lot in… — Donalyn Miller Copy Share Image
When my kids were growing up, I wanted their teachers to teach them science, reading, math and history. I also wanted them… — Adam Hamilton Copy Share Image
“The books we read help to shape who we are. Reading offers us, as children, our first independence- allowing us to travel… — Ben Jacobs Copy Share Image
It [fiction] allows us to see the world from the point of view of someone else and there has been quite a… — Philip Hensher Copy Share Image
Even reading my first bad review was an awesome experience. It was cool because you make something and not everybody's going to… — Ryan Coogler Copy Share Image
“There are books, that one has for twenty years without reading them, that one always keeps at hand, that one takes along… — Elias Canetti Copy Share Image
Much that is great in literature is an acquired taste, and you have to acquire it in the first place. Our job… — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
Most of them were murderers. But when I went there to talk, they were the nicest people. I did a reading. I… — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
Many people think they cannot have knowledge or understanding of God without reading books. But hearing is better than reading, and seeing… — Ramakrishna Copy Share Image
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