“How can we read when people need our help? It's a luxury. A stupid luxury.” — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
Reading Mission to Paris is like sipping a fine Chateau Margaux: Sublime! — Erik Larson Copy Share Image
Most of the literary classics are worth reading, if you've nothing better to do. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“It’s tough, but if you want to survive, sometimes you have to do the seemingly impossible.” — Adele Rose Copy Share Image
“You don't learn anything just by reading books. You learn only by receiving blows.” — Swami Prajnanpad Copy Share Image
I didn't stutter when I was reading lines in a script. When I got away from myself, I didn't have that problem. — Peggy Lipton Copy Share Image
“Reading is getting lost in a world of your choosing without having to feel the physical pain ~ Me.” — Musicinto Copy Share Image
“She couldn't help thinking that something was wrong with a person had more shoes than books in their home.” — Victoria Connelly Copy Share Image
“What's the use trying to read Shakespeare, especially in one of those little paper editions whose pages get ruffled, or stuck together… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“...to her all books were the same and, as with her subjects, she felt a duty to approach them without prejudice...Lauren Bacall,… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
I'd like to encourage people to please keep reading-and most importantly, to please keep trying new writers. The only way we can… — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
I picked up 'The Hunger Games' thinking it was written at my regressed reading level. I've spent hours reading it, and I'm… — Nate Ruess Copy Share Image
There were always plenty of newspapers in the house. 'The Times', 'Guardian', 'Daily Telegraph' and 'Daily Mail' were all regular fixtures on… — Lionel Barber Copy Share Image
I know a lot of people in the retirement village that I have a house in in Florida that are on the… — Davy Jones Copy Share Image
The thing with newspapers is that they are a filter. We're relying on the editors of that paper to be a filter… — Kevin Macdonald Copy Share Image
“She‘d never taken much interest in reading. She read, of course, as one did, but liking books was something she left to… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
“Hello? Oh, nothing... Just sort of hanging around... My brother? He's right here... He's reading... He's always reading... He has no life… — Charles M. Schulz Copy Share Image
I have taken much pains to know everything that is esteemed worth knowing amongst men; but with all my reading, nothing now… — John Selden Copy Share Image
I did a lot of reading of first person accounts from Koreans and combatants and aid workers. And I spoke to relatives.… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
Yet Irina had once tucked away, she wasn't sure when or why, that happiness is almost definitionally a condition of which you… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
It was the last generation of writers [ the Cheers] that had grown up reading books instead of watching TV. So you… — John Ratzenberger Copy Share Image
I guess I've done a lot of different kinds of performing at various times - opera singing, poetry reading, not least high… — Garth Greenwell Copy Share Image
When you get inside a literary novel you feel that the author, more often than not, just doesn't know enough about things.… — Peter York Copy Share Image
Only in Southern California do camping grounds actually have wifi, so I was sitting in my tent and I started reading it… — Remi Aubuchon Copy Share Image
Extrinsic reading rewards may not be necessary and may backfire. — Stephen D. Krashen Copy Share Image
They say man he reading rhymes off his iPhone, no I texting your girl meet me at my home — Troy Ave Copy Share Image
You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“We invent fictions in order to live somehow the many lives we would like to lead when we barely have one at… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
I took the speed reading course and read 'War and Peace' in twenty minutes. It's about Russia. — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
“Writers are not just writers, they are creators of worlds, sculptors of the mind, they are architects of language.” — Jamie L. Harding Copy Share Image
“If this were a novel, I'd stop reading right now. I'd throw it across the room.” — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
For whatever reason, people, including very well-educated people or people otherwise interested in reading, do not read poetry — Paul Muldoon Copy Share Image
I have never experienced a sorrow that was not relieved by an hour of reading. — Daniel Pennac Copy Share Image
“Oh you cut your hair! What happened? Are you going through a breakup or something?" "My favorite character died.” — Joyce Rachelle Copy Share Image
He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the more refined art of skipping and… — Arthur Balfour Copy Share Image
“We bring to everything we read the expectations we have built up by a lifetime of reading.” — Richard Marius Copy Share Image
I'm a very ordinary human being; I just happen to like reading books. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
If you want to take writing on, you should pay writing the respect it deserves, which is to say, reading it. — Hilton Als Copy Share Image
I was always working, so I would get reading done very late at night a lot of times. — Frank Caliendo Copy Share Image
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