Writers aren't born, they're made - from practice, reading, and a lot of caffeine. — Alexander Chee Copy Share Image
There's no better teacher for writing than reading... Get a library card. That's the best investment. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries. — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
I've been reading fanfiction before I even realized what fanfiction was. — Anna Todd Copy Share Image
Reading is important, because if you can read, you can learn anything about everything and everything about anything. — Tomie dePaola Copy Share Image
I like solitary pursuits, such as reading or pottering about in the garden. — Hayley Mills Copy Share Image
I have a hard time finding something that I really enjoy reading, but I read 'The Great Gatsby' every summer. — Dree Hemingway Copy Share Image
“Tis the good reader that makes the good book; a good head cannot read amiss: in every book he finds passages which… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If we were in the habit of reading poets their obscurity would not matter; and, once we are out of the habit,… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
In reading Ameen Rihani... I seem to have become absorbed to the point of forgetting my prejudice... and my envy of Mr.… — William Seabrook Copy Share Image
We are raised to honor all the wrong explorers and discoverers thieves planting flags, murderers carrying crosses. Let us at last praise… — Peter S. Beagle Copy Share Image
It has long been my boast that I can read or eat anything. But unfortunately, although I eat like a Hoover, I… — Katharine Whitehorn Copy Share Image
The resemblance of ... the alien abduction of 'experiencers' to the contracts described by our own volunteers is undeniable. How can anyone… — Rick Strassman Copy Share Image
When I was growing up I spent a lot of time at the Boys and Girls Club so I try to partner… — Harrison Barnes Copy Share Image
Our culture constantly inundates us with new information, and yet our brains capture so little of it. I can spend half a… — Joshua Foer Copy Share Image
With lines that show an unyielding dedication to craft, these poems are not afraid of meaning or the meaningful. More and more… — Jericho Brown Copy Share Image
“Don't you ever get tired of reading?" she asked. "You could hardly be called good company! Don't you know that, with women,… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
On one occasion I got this really bizarre horoscope thing from someone. It was a full-on zodiac reading, charting and intersecting all… — Robert Pattinson Copy Share Image
“Is there anything in your life trying to slip off? Is your health threatening to leave you? Is your joy threatening to… — Patience Johnson Copy Share Image
“Read what gives you delight—at least most of the time—and do so without shame. And even if you are that rare sort… — Alan Jacobs Copy Share Image
...for reading, once begun, quickly becomes home and circle and court and family, and indeed, without narrative, I felt exiled from my… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Milton Erickson was a master at using experiential techniques to elicit strengths that were previously dormant. Mills and Crowley have masterfully captured… — Jeffrey K. Zeig Copy Share Image
Sometimes, reading my own media, the negativity can upset me, but I just deal with things on a positive basis. I mean,… — James Blunt Copy Share Image
Reading is a stouthearted activity, disporting courage, keenness, stick-to-it-ness. — Irving Stone Copy Share Image
A lot of the cosmologists and astrophysicists clearly had been reading science fiction. — Frederik Pohl Copy Share Image
Seeing your name on the list for KP or guard duty when you're in the Army is like reading a bad review. — Robert Duvall Copy Share Image
Essential characteristic of the really great novelist: a Christ-like, all-embracing compassion. — Arnold Bennett Copy Share Image
The mass of the reading public is not interested in learning and assimilating the results of accurate investigation. — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
What I was reading was already part of my psyche, but finally someone else was saying it's okay to walk alone. — Charlie Trotter Copy Share Image
Only in today's sick society can a man be persecuted for reading too many books. — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
Reading poetry and watching cricket were the sum of my world, and the two are not so far apart as many aesthetes… — Donald Bradman Copy Share Image
On Friday night, I was reading my new book, but my brain got tired, so I decided to watch some television instead. — Stephen Chbosky Copy Share Image
A book series is never truly over. The story lives on, even when the final page has been turned. — Richard Denney Copy Share Image
“A mind is a terrible thing to waste, Share the joy of reading with all you meet. Both young and Old. Especially… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Reading had never let me down before. It had always been the one sure thing.” — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
I have a few grey hairs. I dye them. I don't let them show when I'm reading the news. — Fiona Bruce Copy Share Image
Show me the books he loves and I shall know the man far better than through mortal friends. — Dawn Addams Copy Share Image
