Reading. Reading was the stable backdrop against which my life was played. — Lynne Sharon Schwartz Copy Share Image
You should always have 2 books...the one you're reading and the one you're writing. — Sterling W Sill Copy Share Image
If you would tell me the heart of a man, tell me not what he reads, but what he rereads. — Francois Mauriac Copy Share Image
The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“I travel to know the life of great souls in the pages of a book.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
Reading was a big thing, yes. Books were a big thing. But the things that stick out were the newspapers. — James Earl Jones Copy Share Image
On my reading of history people who want to bring us the best are usually the people we ought to be afraid… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
The standard of morals is as variable as morals themselves; of which every nation has a different code, and every custom a… — Norm MacDonald Copy Share Image
My mother was an English teacher before she became a full-time mom, and a huge proponent of reading, so she made sure… — Matt Wagner Copy Share Image
There's a richness that reading gives you, an opportunity to probe more than any other medium I know of. Reading is about… — Maryanne Wolf Copy Share Image
I'll be reading books until the next challenger arrives. That will calm my nerves, so that I may deal with all situations… — Lucian Copy Share Image
I tried not to get too addicted to reading the Whedonesque website, because it could become obsessive. They were a charming and… — Olivia Williams Copy Share Image
I enjoyed reading Batman, and Superman, and all the super ones, but I never wished I created them. I've got to let… — Stan Lee Copy Share Image
I started reading about people of great accomplishment... and it dawned on me suddenly that the person who has the most to… — Benjamin Carson Copy Share Image
“Books. The reading, writing and cultivation of books is my form of meditation. The books in my life have brought me closest… — Casey Carter Copy Share Image
We had entered an era of limitlessness, or the illusion thereof, and this in itself is a sort of wonder. My grandfather… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The Cheney team had, for example, technological supremacy over the National Security Council staff. That is to say, they could read their… — Lawrence Wilkerson Copy Share Image
“Almost every major textual initiative today is structured around three overlapping notions of sharing: commonality, transferability, and sociability. We want other people… — Andrew Piper Copy Share Image
After high school, I went to Stanford University and majored in English. Of course, that gave me a chance to do lots… — Linda Sue Park Copy Share Image
And she understood, all by herself, without reading it in a novel or hearing it on a radio program, that falling passionately… — Paulette Jiles Copy Share Image
Good description is a learned skill, one of the prime reasons why you cannot succeed unless you read a lot and write… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The quote is always fascinating because it changes out of context, becomes different and sometimes more mysterious. It has a directness and… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“The evils arising from the loss of her uncle were neither trifling nor likely to lessen; and when thought had been freely… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I been doing a lot of reading, watching a lot of basketball, watching a lot of shows. — Rodney Hood Copy Share Image
The No Child Left Behind Program was an incentive to the schools to get their kids up to snuff on math and… — Sandra Day O'Connor Copy Share Image
Yes, I was good at reading people. I studied them so I could put them in my novels. — Jennifer Echols Copy Share Image
“Maybe Heaven will be a library and then I might get to finish my ‘to-read’ list.” — Kellie Elmore Copy Share Image
“As a boy, reading was my religion. It helped me to discover my soul. Later, writing helped me to record its journey.” — Ruskin Bond Copy Share Image
It wasn't even a good note. 'If you are reading this I am probably dead.' What sort of a note is that? — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
More people are reading poetry now than at any time in the history of the human race. — Andrew Motion Copy Share Image
Running a marathon is just like reading a good book. After a while you're just not conscious of the physical act of… — Frank Shorter Copy Share Image
“Be a good boy, remember; and be kind to animals and birds, and read all you can.” — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“READING A GOOD BOOK IS LIKE LIVING ANOTHER LIFE. THE BEST PART IS, YOU DON'T HAVE TO LIKE IT.” — Phillip Knight Copy Share Image
“Learning new things exercises the brain in such a titillating way.” — Love The Stacks Bookstore Copy Share Image
“Books are so strong, you can break their spines and they will still stand for eternity.” — Donald J. Bingle Copy Share Image
Wonderful ... I was up all night reading it, laughing and crying out in horror. — Annie Proulx Copy Share Image
I tried to convey to the boy how people's lives are often altered by curved lines read slowly from paper, sand, or… — Simon Van Booy Copy Share Image
“The most influential books are the ones we read when we are most malleable” — S.E. SEVER Copy Share Image
I grew up with my uncle's comic books at my grandma's house, so I've always loved my comic book reading. — Jeffrey Dean Morgan Copy Share Image