“There is no gift of principles, you must apply them if you want to move forward.” — Patience Johnson Copy Share Image
“I always wanted to ask people: “Are you in love? What are you reading?” — Françoise Sagan Copy Share Image
I'm amazed at how Muslims keep their humanity after reading the Koran. — Mosab Hassan Yousef Copy Share Image
I like reading history, and actually most authors enjoy the research part because it is, after all, easier than writing. — Ken Follett Copy Share Image
My thoughts can sometimes be spurred by what I read, but my reading is extremely eclectic. — Robyn Davidson Copy Share Image
It certainly is my opinion that a book worth reading only in childhood is not worth reading even then. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“You're never as good a writer as you think you are, and you're never as bad. Just keep reading and writing, writing,… — Don Roff Copy Share Image
I am working on a technical paper on compassion. So I am reading everything I can on the subject, including my own… — Joan Halifax Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, I was running around; I was a little tomboy. So I was just running around trying to… — Dania Ramirez Copy Share Image
I liked reading about the nun who ate so dainty with her fingers she never dripped any grease on herself. I've never… — Helene Hanff Copy Share Image
I try to be a good human being and keep up with what's going on in the world by reading and staying… — Bob Feller Copy Share Image
Grandma told me Mama was once caught by the Principal for writing in the front of her book, "In Case of Fire,… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
A mathematician will recognise Cauchy, Gauss, Jacobi or Helmholtz after reading a few pages, just as musicians recognise, from the first few… — Ludwig Boltzmann Copy Share Image
I think you learn how to write by reading an enormous amount, so then your memory is stocked with various constructions, various… — Lucy Hughes-Hallett Copy Share Image
“King Arthur's Knights had been the first book Arthur had read late at night under the covers with a torch...it was he… — Charlie Lovett Copy Share Image
“There was a period when I lived on book reviews, when I had basked and drawn sustenance from what I deemed the… — Frederick Exley Copy Share Image
“In Dostoevsky there were things unbelievable and not to be believed, but some so true they changed you as you read them;… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
If it's all instruction, you get annoyed with it and bored, and you stop reading. If it's all entertainment, you read it… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
If I could take all my parts with me when I go somewhere / and not have to say to one of… — Pat Parker Copy Share Image
The novels are always morphing into something else now, some kind of hybrid, more of a ground that isn't so easily specified.… — Helen Humphreys Copy Share Image
“(Mind you, according to Walter Benjamin, the twentieth century’s great philosopher of collecting, browsing and what we’d now call vintage shopping, ‘the… — Simon Reynolds Copy Share Image
Human contacts have been so highly valued in the past only because reading was not a common accomplishment… The world, you must… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Writers of historical fiction are often faced with a problem: if they include real-life people, how do they ensure that their make-believe… — Sarah Weinman Copy Share Image
True teaching cannot be learned from text-books any more than a surgeon can acquire his skill by reading about surgery. — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
I think it's undignified to read for the purposes of escape. After you grow up, you should start reading for other purposes — M. John Harrison Copy Share Image
“Every story is entitled to have a ‘happily ever after’ ending. However, not all characters are so deserving.” — Chad B Hanson Copy Share Image
The intellectual is, quite simply, a human being who has a pencil in his or her hand when reading a book. — George Steiner Copy Share Image
The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is such seduction in a library of good books that I cannot resist the temptation to luxuriate in reading. — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
I know every book of mine by its smell, and I have but to put my nose between the pages to be… — George Gissing Copy Share Image
“I don't really read as much but I am reading a depressing book on the Holocaust…” — Patricia Reilly Giff Copy Share Image
A society can exist - many do exist - without writing, but no society can exist without reading. — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
I love the feeling I get when I'm on a set; I love reading the scripts, playing the characters, getting to be… — Dakota Fanning Copy Share Image
I suggest a nationwide reading of the Holy Scriptures during the period from Thanksgiving Day to Christmas. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading. — William Styron Copy Share Image
There is absolutely no way to increase your income quicker than reading 30 minutes a day — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
“We prefer being certain about a bad scenario rather than being uncertain” — S.E. SEVER Copy Share Image
I always travel with my iPod and I've never read a book in my life. It makes me tired; my brain is… — Gino D'Acampo Copy Share Image
