To slide into the domed reading room at ten each morning, specially in summer, off the hot street outside, was a sensation… — Helen Garner Copy Share Image
Before I went to bed, I sat up till 2 a-clock in my chamber, reading of Mr. Hooke's Microscopical Observations, the most… — Samuel Pepys Copy Share Image
Raven-haired writer Emer Martin is giving a lunchtime reading from her fabulous new novel, Baby Zero. Emer Martin is a brilliant writer,… — Olaf Tyaransen Copy Share Image
It's an Obama book, certainly. I was delighted, and astonished, to hear recently that he was reading it. It's a book about… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
I am not opposed to e-readers. Any technology that encourages the reading of literature is a good thing. — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
“When I come home and look back through my Book of Books I see a personal narrative I didn’t recognize at the… — Pamela Paul Copy Share Image
Among those today who believe that modern poetry must do without rhyme or metre, there is an assumption that the alternative to… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
When I step into this library, I cannot understand why I ever step out of it. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I learned to read from Mrs. Augusta Baker, the children's librarian. ... If that was the only good deed that lady ever… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
The HoLee model was the first term structure model. I remember reading their paper soon after it was published and as it… — John Hull Copy Share Image
For me, reading books and writing them are tied together. The words of other writers teach me and refresh me and inspire… — Betsy Byars Copy Share Image
She went from opera, park, assembly, play, To morning walks, and prayers three hours a day. To part her time 'twixt reading… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
There was no answer, no solution, no sop, no deliverance. What, then, did I do? I read faster. — Leo Rosten Copy Share Image
...but I preferred reading the American landscape as we went along. Every bump, rise, and stretch in it mystified my longing. — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Truthfully, in the beginning [of MacGyver] this could have gone either way, and as it turned out there was a version that… — Lucas Till Copy Share Image
You don’t get it, do you?" I said. “It’s not a question of ‘what then’. Some people get a kick out of… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I used read about Dr. King a lot as a kid. Independently, from being assigned it or being told by my parents… — John Legend Copy Share Image
We believed we could prepare our kids for a more competitive world. And today, our younger students have earned the highest math… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
This man, who for twenty-five years has been reading and writing about art, and in all that time has never understood anything… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
When people started reading me and talking to me about the work, they didn't say how funny, or how satiric, or how… — Jules Feiffer Copy Share Image
Because so many people use goodreads, it is an amazingly good—and amazingly underutilized—resource for understanding what people read, why, and how they… — John Green Copy Share Image