To finish is both a relief and a release from an extraordinarily pleasant prison. — Robert Burchfield Copy Share Image
As a writer reading, I came to realize the obvious: the subject of the dream is the dreamer. — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
To read means to borrow; to create out of one s readings is paying off one's debts. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
I have decided that the trouble with print is, it never changes its mind. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I loved to read, still do, and it seemed that the writing was a result of the love of books and reading… — Adriana Trigiani Copy Share Image
Beware that the one who reads is the same as the book, the same as what is read, the same as the… — Mohammed Dib Copy Share Image
They like my books better in England than in France; a translation would be very successful there. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Everywhere I go, kids walk around not with books under their arms, but with radios up against their heads. Children can't read… — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
You should never try and teach a pig to read for two reasons. First, it's impossible; and secondly, it annoys the hell… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
How much there is in books that one does not want to know, that it would be a mere weariness and burden… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
I don't want anyone reading my writing to think about style. I just want them to be in the story. — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
The guru, if he is gifted, reads the story as any bilingual person might. He does not translate-he understands. — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
Writing is a difficult trade which must be learned slowly by reading great authors; by trying at the outset to imitate them;… — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
When in reading we meet with any maxim that may be of use, we should take it for our own, and make… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
To read the papers and to listen to the news... one would think the country is in terrible trouble. You do not… — Charles Kuralt Copy Share Image
There's nothing wrong with reading a book you love over and over. — Gail Carson Levine Copy Share Image
whatever you do, find ways to read poerty. Eat it, drink it, enjoy it, and share it. — Eve Merriam Copy Share Image
The art of reading between the lines is as old as manipulated information. — Serge Schmemann Copy Share Image
There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates' loot on Treasure Island... — Walt Disney Copy Share Image
I do not think anyone can read War and Peace too much. I read it six times... — Maxwell Perkins Copy Share Image
A book is not harmless merely because no one is consciously offended by it. — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Why should we leave it to Harper & Brothers and Redding & Co. to select our reading? — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Books take their place according to their specific gravity as surely as potatoes in a tub. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
First publication is a pure, carnal leap into that dark which one dreams is life. — Hortense Calisher Copy Share Image
Essential characteristic of the really great novelist: a Christ-like, all-embracing compassion. — Arnold Bennett Copy Share Image
When I was younger, I inhaled books, and reading has always been my one true love. — Rosie Jones Copy Share Image
Whether it is fun to go to bed with a good book depends a great deal on who's reading it. — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
I should as soon think of swimming across Charles River, when I wish to go to Boston, as of reading all my… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Critics are usually kinder to cheaper movies than to those they perceive to be big Hollywood releases. They cut you a lot… — Ethan Coen Copy Share Image
The book-worm wraps himself up in his web of verbal generalities, and sees only the glimmering shadows of things reflected from the… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“It has always been a great comfort to me that I could bring a book anywhere, to any place. To any part… — Anton DiSclafani Copy Share Image
Memorizing, guessing, looking at pictures, predicting, substituting, and skipping, are not reading; they are very bad habits. — Phyllis Schlafly Copy Share Image
