Only the slow reader will notice the odd crowd of images-flier, butcher, seal-which have gathered to comment on the aims and activities… — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
One thing I like about writing is that it provides such a wonderful opportunity for confidential chats with readers. In the privacy… — Ralph Keyes Copy Share Image
“The taste for books was an early one. As a child he was sometimes found at midnight by a page still reading.… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“It's always so cool to think you are looking at today is something other people have been looking at for centuries. It's… — Sarah Strohmeyer Copy Share Image
'The Dublin Magazine' has been edited with good taste, and it is very agreeable reading, but to speak quite candidly, I do… — George A. Moore Copy Share Image
My mother taught me how to read very early on and at school I was ahead of everyone in class... Reading was… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
There is no rigorous and effective deconstruction without the faithful memory of philosophies and literatures, without the respectful and competent reading of… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
“I do lend my books, but I have to be a bit selective because my marginalia are so incriminating.” --Alison Bechdel” — Leah Price Copy Share Image
What a dazzlingly generous, gloriously unpredictable book! Maggie Nelson shows us what it means to be real, offering a way of thinking… — Eula Biss Copy Share Image
“For ordinary books are like meteors. Each of them has only one moment, a moment when it soars screaming like the phoenix,… — Bruno Schulz Copy Share Image
Reading a novel in which all characters illustrate patience, hard work, chastity, and delayed gratification could be a pretty dull experience. — Thomas Perry Copy Share Image
“As I walked in the dark through the tunnels and tunnels of books, I could not help being overcome by a sense… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
Books, I don't know what you see in them. I can understand a person reading them, but I can't for the life… — Peter Ustinov Copy Share Image
The reading of books, what is it but conversing with the wisest men of all ages and all countries. — Isaac Barrow Copy Share Image
When I was a child, I was reading books filled with people different from me, all French, all foreigners. There was a… — Laila Lalami Copy Share Image
I have been reading the press more regularly than others over 50 years and it seems to me that there are things… — John Major Copy Share Image
“A good book, he had concluded, leaves you wanting to reread the book. A great book compels you to reread your own… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
I just preach the importance of reading, the importance of learning and challenging yourself to be the best you can be in… — Ha Ha Clinton-Dix Copy Share Image
I found out a long time ago that if I indulged by stuffing my face with great food, lying about reading books… — Raquel Welch Copy Share Image
Tod's and Loro Piana are perfect for reading Sunday papers in front of the fire. — David Linley Copy Share Image
When I became a teen, I ran into a friend at a magic shop who took me under his wing. I started… — Apollo Robbins Copy Share Image
I have been reading Madame Roland's memoirs and have come to the conclusion that she was a very over-rated woman; snobbish, vain,… — Madame Roland Copy Share Image
“Books are just like Rorschach tests. The patterns we find in a book’s ink reveal far more about us than they do… — Sean Norris Copy Share Image
What an astonishing thing a book is. It's a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Understand, I'll slip quietly away from the noisy crowd when I see the pale stars rising, blooming, over the oaks. I'll pursue… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
I was an absolute idiot, wearing polo-necks, reading Kerouac, watching Woody Allen movies, and jazz fitted right into all of that. My… — Jamie Cullum Copy Share Image
One of the things that is interesting about reading conspiracy theory is that much of what folks think is conspiracy is really… — Catherine Austin Fitts Copy Share Image
“She'd obviously read the book many times before, and so she read flawlessly and confidently, and I could hear her smile in… — John Green Copy Share Image
We are digital archives of the African Pliocene, even of Devonian seas; walking repositories of wisdom out of the old days. You… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
It is not enough to simply teach children to read; we have to give them something worth reading. — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
I was a very sickly kid and suffered from chronic pneumonia, which is why we moved to the warm southern climate. I… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
A big thing that gets people in trouble in the kitchen is not reading the recipe from start to finish before you… — Gail Simmons Copy Share Image
“See, she goes places when she reads. I know all about that. When I'm reading, wherever I am, I'm always somewhere else.” — Rebecca Wells Copy Share Image
The title of my book is 'American Histories,' plural. And as far as I'm concerned, my reading of history is it is… — John Edgar Wideman Copy Share Image
So, I subscribe to the following reading: Star Wars is an essentially Christian tale. — Cass Sunstein Copy Share Image
Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“Above all, readers want useful information, whether from a road sign or an investment guide. This motive is not completely absent even… — Alice W. Flaherty Copy Share Image
I just write the sort of book that I would enjoy reading myself, a book that is both scholarly and recreates the… — Antony Beevor Copy Share Image
