Reading is important, because if you can read, you can learn anything about everything and everything about anything. — Tomie dePaola Copy Share Image
I enjoy reading blogs, but am not interested in having my spurious thoughts out there. — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
“Reading had never let me down before. It had always been the one sure thing.” — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
Show me the books he loves and I shall know the man far better than through mortal friends. — Dawn Addams Copy Share Image
I have a few grey hairs. I dye them. I don't let them show when I'm reading the news. — Fiona Bruce Copy Share Image
On Friday night, I was reading my new book, but my brain got tired, so I decided to watch some television instead. — Stephen Chbosky Copy Share Image
Reading poetry and watching cricket were the sum of my world, and the two are not so far apart as many aesthetes… — Donald Bradman Copy Share Image
You can't ever let yourself be thrown by a camera. That's never good for an actor. When you're reading the script, you… — Jennifer Lawrence Copy Share Image
Reading is one of the most individual things that happens. So every reader is going to read a piece in a slightly… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
We spend all our time teaching reading and writing. We spend absolutely no time at all, in most schools, teaching either speaking… — Julian Treasure Copy Share Image
To believe a thing is to see the cool crystal water sparkling in the cup. But to meditate on it is to… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
I was in my mid-teens when someone gave me a copy of 'Pears Encyclopaedia of Myth and Legends' as a birthday present.… — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
“It’s okay to dress up like another person, but never try to be someone else. Just try to be yourself, because that’s… — Jeff Hutchins Copy Share Image
After my cancer diagnosis this year, I was offered a choice of treatments. I wanted to make an informed decision. This meant… — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
The book, that stubbornly unelectric artifact of pure typography, possesses resources conducive to the flourishing of the soul. A thoughtful reading of… — Douglas Groothuis Copy Share Image
You learn so much with each book, but it's what you teach yourself by writing your own books and by reading good… — Maggie O'Farrell Copy Share Image
“Reading two pages apiece of seven books every night, eh? I was young. You bowed to yourself in the mirror, stepping forward… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
I didn't really want to be an actor when I was growing up - I wanted to be whatever I was reading… — Jason Sudeikis Copy Share Image
“Our contempt for any particular poem must be perfect, be total, because only a ruthless reading that allows us to measure the… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
I like reading for things. I've shown up for jobs before where I haven't read for them, and there's something kind of… — Luke Grimes Copy Share Image
“Thrillers, like all genre fiction, remain for the most part “beneath.” There is a feeling in literature, more than any other art… — Will Lavender Copy Share Image
I can't honestly say where the inspiration for my work came from. I think it came from reading. It came from texts,… — Lebbeus Woods Copy Share Image
I had the impression from reading English literature that British women were great beauties, and I only had seen Julie Christie, and… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image