Shakespeare fascinated me. He hardly ever left the country. His imagination was worldwide though reading. — Michael Tippett Copy Share Image
When you broadcast your book reading voluntarily, it creates moments of fascinating serendipity. — Clive Thompson Copy Share Image
I was in a convenience store, reading a magazine. The clerk told me, "this is not a library!" "OK! I will talk… — Mitch Hedberg Copy Share Image
When you start reading nonfiction books about piracy, you realize that it's actually just a history of desperate people. — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
“Happy be the reader plunged into her book who forgot the world and whom world forgot.” — Gabrielle Dubois Copy Share Image
“No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.” — Atwood H. Townsend Copy Share Image
I never read a horse book in my life. But I thought that's what my friends were reading and that's what I… — Judy Blume Copy Share Image
My dad read The Hobbit to me originally when I was young. So, it was the first imaginary landscape I ever had… — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
A newspaper that you're not reading can be used for anything; and the same people didn't think it was immoral to wrap… — Robert Rauschenberg Copy Share Image
The clerisy are those who seek, and find, delight and enlargement of life in books. The clerisy are those for whom reading… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
What she was finding also was how one book led to another, doors kept opening wherever she turned and the days weren't… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
The clever reader who is capable or reading between these lines what does not stand written in them but is nevertheless implied… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I can tell very early on, reading a script, within six or seven pages, whether I'm looking at real people, and whether… — Sarah Lancashire Copy Share Image
Reading has made such a profound difference to my life. I'm sure I became a writer because of the power of literature… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
I thought, "What the hell happened with James Comey ? Who did this? I mean, the only people clamoring for this are… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
If a poet has any obligation toward society, it is to write well. Being in the minority, he has no other choice.… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
I do like to keep abreast of what the hardcore vocal members of the comics-reading audience are talking about on Internet message… — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
“Never have things of the spirit counted for so little. Never has hatred for everything great been so manifest – disdain for… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Twenty-nine years ago, I came to faith in Christ after a gentleman from the Gideon's International gave me a free copy of… — Craig Groeschel Copy Share Image
In some ways, I don’t feel as if I had a choice. Looking back at my childhood, even before I could read… — Shannon Hale Copy Share Image
“I must confess that in all the times I read Madame Bovary, I never noticed the heroine's rainbow eyes. Should I have?… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
[When] Johnny Mnemonic was coming out and I realized that all the kids that worked in 7-11 knew more - or thought… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
“Reading great books always gives me the worst sleeping disorders.” — Love The Stacks Bookstore Copy Share Image
“If you're going to fall in love with anyone, fall in love with a writer. Allow yourself to become immortalised in words.” — Jamie L. Harding Copy Share Image
The person, be it lady or gentlemen who has not pleasure in a good book must be intoleranlty stupid. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“A bookshop is a peaceful sanctuary of silent voices waiting to heard” — Mala Naidoo Copy Share Image
The elasticity of imagination and compassion is what writing and reading promote. — Julia Alvarez Copy Share Image
“Why does everyone think a girl who prefers books to people must be in want of a life?” — Lauren Morrill Copy Share Image
“If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Books do not make life easier or more simple, but harder and more interesting. — Harry Golden Copy Share Image
I'm really into reading books right now about India. You reach a certain age where you start missing your home history. — Sacha Dhawan Copy Share Image
I grew up reading Ayn Rand and it taught me quite a bit about who I am and what my value systems… — Paul Ryan Copy Share Image
And out of a desire essentially to imitate what I was reading, I began to write, like a clever monkey. — Russell Banks Copy Share Image
In fourth grade I had a high school reading level, but I didn't want to go to school and I didn't feel… — Freddie Prinze Copy Share Image
The reading of a poem should be an experience. Its writing must be all the more so. — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
I very much enjoy reading other writers' diaries, mainly because it makes me ask myself: Are they like you? How do they… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
I had plenty of pimples as a kid. One day I fell asleep in the library. When I woke up, a blind… — Rodney Dangerfield Copy Share Image
I read "Remembrance of Things Past" in the original French. I never start the day without reading me some [Marcel] Proust. — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
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