“If you were at school they would not let you read a book like this, they would keep you from reading it… — Helen DeWitt Copy Share Image
If somebody takes the time, a: to read a book that I have written, and then to b: care about it enough… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
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
If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it was printed… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Often have I sighed to measure By myself a lonely pleasure,- Sighed to think I read a book, Only read, perhaps, by… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
“my folks wouldn't read a book if you put a gun to their dicks. but they read people all day long and… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
You know how when you read a book and it becomes a movie, and it's different than you pictured? In some ways,… — Morgan Saylor Copy Share Image
I'm never ashamed to read a book twice or as many times as I want. We never expect to drink a glass… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
“Introverts feel “just right” with less stimulation, as when they sip wine with a close friend, solve a crossword puzzle, or read… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
I never tell students they cannot read a book they pick up, but I do guide them toward books that I think… — Donalyn Miller Copy Share Image
“I'm as apolitical as possible. I don't hang out with too many people. I'm a loner. For the most part, when I… — Eric Bischoff Copy Share Image
I'm enrolled right now in the School of Life. I deferred from Sarah Lawrence, so I think I'm going to try to… — Emma Roberts Copy Share Image
I didn't read a book until I was 31 years old when I was diagnosed with dyslexia. Books terrified me. They made… — Henry Winkler Copy Share Image
“What does a man live for but to have a girl, use his mind, practice his trade, drink a drink, read a… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
Even when I read a book, if the book leaves me the possibility of finding certain solutions or working on my own… — Sergio Leone Copy Share Image
More and more people think of the critic as an indispensable middle man between writer and reader, and would no more read… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
“Sometimes when you read a book or watch a TV show, you see the people and you think, Don’t do that. Don’t… — M.H. Herlong Copy Share Image
“My favorite book, by a wide margin, was An Imperial Affliction, but I didn’t like to tell people about it. Sometimes, you… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Why d’you read then?” “Partly for pleasure, because it’s a habit and I’m just as uncomfortable if I don’t read as if… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“You fight with dreams as with formless and meaningless life, seeking a pattern, a route that must surely be there, as when… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“I love the imagery of struggle. I sometimes wish I were suffering in a good cause, or risking my life for the… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“It is a mistake to read too many good books when quite young. A man once told me that he had read… — Winston S. Churchill 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
You can live a lifetime and, at the end of it, know more about other people than you know about yourself. You… — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
We'd never expect to understand a piece of music on one listen, but we tend to believe we've read a book after… — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
“If you want to improve the world, first improve yourself. If you want to improve yourself, read a book.” — J. Millard Simpson Copy Share Image
“CUSTOMER: I read a book in the sixties. I don’t remember the author, or the title. But it was green, and it… — Jen Campbell Copy Share Image
You want to read a book? That requires introspection. It requires time away from people and time away from the constant need… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book. — Groucho Marx Copy Share Image
I won't read a book that starts with a description of the weather. I don't read books over 300 pages, though I'll… — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
My reading list grows exponentially. Every time I read a book, it'll mention three other books I feel I have to read.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's a very powerful, emotional thing to read a book, and to reduce it to a series of questions in a test… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
When we read a book, we have a blurry image that's kind of physical but blurry. But we have an emotional image… — Niels Arden Oplev Copy Share Image
Each time I read a book, I cataloged the parts that struck me dumb with envy and admiration for their beauty and… — Jack Gantos Copy Share Image
What did Napolean do for relaxation? He read a book. What did Lincoln do for relaxation? He read a book. What does… — Jimmy Durante Copy Share Image
In '85, I read a book that helped me forget about the past and work on the future as far as success… — Bob Backlund Copy Share Image
“Maybe it's not about the journey but rather the way you imagine the journey when you read a book.” — BeaOngjoco Copy Share Image
Just be a cool grandpa who's creative, and hang out and tell stories and read a book in the library. — Angelina Jolie Copy Share Image
“There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and a tired man who… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I'm not a very glamorous person. I like to just sit alone in a room and read a book or meditate. — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
