I didn't read this book--I inhaled it. This a terrific new take on a great old rock n roll story, a clash… — William McKeen Copy Share Image
“Reading is a practice; good reading is a highly sophisticated practice. The practice has to be learnt.” — Andrew Davison Copy Share Image
Good taste cannot supply the place of genius in literature, for the best proof of taste, when there is no genius, would… — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
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We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound. — Zoltan Kodaly Copy Share Image
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To encounter a fine book and have time to read it is a wonderful thing. — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
I had read the 'Wonder Woman' comic books when I was a child; I was much more interested in those than I… — Lynda Carter Copy Share Image
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I spent much of my prison time reading. I must have read over 200 large books, mostly fictional stories about the American… — Frazier Glenn Miller, Jr Copy Share Image
Literature is well enough, as a time-passer, and for the improvement and general elevation and purification of mankind, but it has no… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
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I elbowed my way into the grubby café, bought a pie that tasted of shoe polish and a pot of tea with… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
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I don't necessarily start with the beginning of the book. I just start with the part of the story that's most vivid… — Beverly Cleary Copy Share Image
A poem is a frozen moment melted by each reader for themselves to flow into the here and now. — Hilde Domin Copy Share Image
If I turned towards books, it was because they were the only sanctuary I knew, one I needed in order to survive,… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
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