Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading!… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“I had seen myself, a portrait of myself as a reader. My childhood: hours spent in airless classrooms, days home sick from… — Audrey Niffenegger Copy Share Image
I want to take my rightful share of life by force, I want to give lavishly, I want love to flow from… — Tayeb Salih Copy Share Image
Malacca fascinates me more and more daily. There is, among other things, a mediaevalism about it. The noise of the modern world… — Isabella Bird Copy Share Image
“Being alone is not the most awful thing in the world. You visit your museums and cultivate your interests and remind yourself… — Zoë Heller Copy Share Image
“In the shop window you have promptly identified the cover with the title you were looking for. Following this visual trail, you… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“On Writing: Aphorisms and Ten-Second Essays 1. A beginning ends what an end begins. 2. The despair of the blank page: it… — James Richardson Copy Share Image
“The ego is an amazing mechanism. You don't need to fight it back. You just need to realize that you'll come back… — Robin Sacredfire Copy Share Image
Read good books. Read bad books - and figure out why you don't like them. Then don't do it when you write.… — Patricia Briggs Copy Share Image
“Sometimes Umit thought that the books read them. To him it looked as if the books were holding his parents, and reading… — Raj Doctor Copy Share Image
“The disadvantage of reading aloud remained the fact that it took longer. But books read aloud also stayed long in my memory. عيب القراءة بصوتٍ عالٍ أنها تستغرق وقتاً أطول، لكن الكتب المقرؤة بصوتٍ عالٍ أيضًا تظلَّ فترة في ذاكراتي .” — Bernhard Schlink Copy Share Image
Most books today seemed to have been written overnight from books read the day before. — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
“…the matter was new to me, and I had no material for its treatment. But I got books, read up the facts,… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“We have scanned many of the books housed in our Family Services Resource Room located in Villa Park, IL onto goodreads. This… — Easter Seals DuPage Fox Valley Region Copy Share Image
“I discovered news of old horrors in old books; read intelligence of old atrocities in old periodicals; always in the back of… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Child, unless you are opening a dictionary, you start at the book's opening page and you read the story through. If it's… — Camron Wright Copy Share Image
“If you have children, trust them completely, all the time, no matter what. If you don't trust them, pretend that you do.… — Lisa Moore Copy Share Image
“I want a marriage of companions—one of shared lives and shared poems,' he murmured. 'If we were husband and wife, we would… — Lisa See Copy Share Image
“The Chinese considered the moon to be yin, feminine and full of negative energy, as opposed to the sun that was yang… — Yangsze Choo Copy Share Image
“But about the drip drip of long-haul, no-end-in-sight solitude, they know nothing. They don't know what it is to construct an entire… — Zoe Heller Copy Share Image
“My life is in these books. Read these and know my heart. We are not quire novels. We are not quite short… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
“It is far, far better to read one book six times, at intervals, than to read six several books. Because if a… — D.H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
It's a novel experience to have one of my books read by a reading group. — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
“Get someone-anyone-to read books to you. Having books read to you at any age is the supremo ultimato of living.” — Carew Papritz Copy Share Image
“LIFE IS AN ENTHUSIASM. MY EXPERIENCE OF LIFE, MY VISION ALL ARE MENTION IN MY BOOKS. WRITING LANGUAGE - MALAYALAM. I BORN… — Saravan Maheswer Copy Share Image
