I seek in the reading of books, only to please myself, by an honest diversion. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
You must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance. — Confucius Copy Share Image
There are favorable hours for reading a book, as for writing it. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Make him laugh and he will think you a trivial fellow, but bore him in the right way and your reputation is… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Reading a hard copy book, and reading a book on an iPad are slightly different experiences. What they both have in common… — LeVar Burton Copy Share Image
Sometimes I wish the public were equally aware of the men of our race in the cultural fields. You, for instance, have… — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
Best-sellerism is the star system of the book world. A "best seller" is a celebrity among books. It is a book known… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
A book on cheap paper does not convince. It is not prized, it is like a wheezy doctor with pigtail tobacco breath,… — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
There is as much trickery required to grow rich by a stupid book as there is folly in buying it. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
We find little in a book but what we put there. But in great books, the mind finds room to put many… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
The library was open for one hour after school let out. I hid there, looking at art books and reading poetry. — Lynda Barry Copy Share Image
By believing that only some of our students will ever develop a love of books and reading, we ignore those who do… — Donalyn Miller Copy Share Image
“I have a household of good books, and reading tends to take for me the place of experience—or rather to become itself… — Henry James Copy Share Image
Reading is actually plunging into one's own identity and, one hopes, emerging stronger than before. You see, unconsciously, we are seeking to… — Amalia Kahana-Carmon Copy Share Image
“If a book is worth reading at all, it is worth reading more than once. Suspense is the lowest of excitants, designed… — William Gerhardie Copy Share Image
If one has to choose between reading the new books and reading the old, one must choose the old: not because they… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I started to read at a very early age, and I just thought that books and reading were really the most wonderful… — Carol Windley Copy Share Image
I've turned down a lot of stuff. I've read several scripts and said "That's not me, I'm not interested in doing that."… — Karl Urban Copy Share Image
I was looking at books and reading the indexes and finding a next book and reading that book, and then from that… — Lisa Yuskavage Copy Share Image
When I got the script to this movie, The Good Girl, I read it in an hour. The writer, Mike White, has… — Jennifer Aniston Copy Share Image
“When a book leaves its author's desk it changes. Even before anyone has read it, before eyes other than its creator's have… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
If it was a biopic about Glenn Greenwald, I would have immersed myself more fully in his personal life and gotten to… — Zachary Quinto Copy Share Image
“Gro Rollag was no beauty, but she was a strong capable young woman with a long face, prominent cheekbones, high forehead, and… — David Laskin Copy Share Image
“Oh, maybe a little treasure for the more rabid Incunks, the collectors and the academics who maintained their positions in large part… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“You’re awfully quiet.” Her head snapped the other way, heat creeping up into her cheeks as she focused on the ocean below.… — Lisa Kessler Copy Share Image
The man who reads only for improvement is beyond the hope of much improvement before he begins. — Jonathan Daniels Copy Share Image
I do not know any reading more easy, more fascinating, more delightful than a catalogue. — Anatole France Copy Share Image
