I think it's undignified to read for the purposes of escape. After you grow up, you should start reading for other purposes — M. John Harrison Copy Share Image
True teaching cannot be learned from text-books any more than a surgeon can acquire his skill by reading about surgery. — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
“You're never as good a writer as you think you are, and you're never as bad. Just keep reading and writing, writing,… — Don Roff Copy Share Image
It certainly is my opinion that a book worth reading only in childhood is not worth reading even then. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I never talked to anyone about my reading; the need to share came afterwords. — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
I was thrilled to be able to read at three. I just thought everyone loved reading as much as I did. — Adora Svitak Copy Share Image
Without a mission and a sense of whom you write for, you aren't worth reading. — Steve Lopez Copy Share Image
I began to imitate what I was reading, and I started to become a poet, even though what I was writing were… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
For the true bookworm it is sometimes hard to distinguish between what one has experienced and what one has read. We know… — Laura Furman Copy Share Image
George Saunders is outside of Chicago too. I've met him a few times, actually. I really like him a lot. He's a… — How to Dress Well Copy Share Image
So many (too many) books are published every year, and it seems everyone is writing a book. Perhaps we should all be… — Tracy Chevalier Copy Share Image
Books have knowledge, knowledge is power, power corrupts, corruption is a crime, and crime doesn't pay..so if you keep reading, you'll go… — Books and music. Facebook Copy Share Image
When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
I saw a poet chase a butterfly in a meadow. He put his net on a bench where a boy sat reading… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
The opinion of the great body of the reading public is very materially influenced even by the unsupported assertions of those who… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
I was merely a child when I opened a book 9a scroll to be more specific). What I read within those lines… — Daegus (43rd King Of Atlantis Copy Share Image
I would be writing and trying to write like Joan Didion. Or if I was reading Raymond Carver. You know, strong stylists.… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
“One thinks of nothing,’ he continued; ‘the hours slip by. Motionless we traverse countries we fancy we see, and your thought, blinding… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Husband and I are preparing ourselves for the new Doctor by watching - well, mainly rewatching - Mr. Capaldi’s back catalogue, we’ve… — Jacqueline Rayner Copy Share Image
“Life can't ever really defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death--… — Cara Swann Copy Share Image
I'm open to reading almost anything - fiction, nonfiction - as long as I know from the first sentence or two that… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
Reading honest literature makes you love the world. Knowledge and understanding are love. Reading educates our feelings and enhances our sympathy. When… — John Dufresne Copy Share Image
Common sense should tell us that reading is the ultimate weapon--destroying ignorance, poverty and despair before they can destroyus. A nation that… — Jim Trelease Copy Share Image
“But the not-very-highbrow truth of the matter was that the reading was how I got my ya-yas out. For the sake of… — Julie Powell Copy Share Image
