O, let my books be then the eloquence and dumb presages of my speaking breast. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Given that life is so short, do I really want to spend one-ninetieth of my remaining days on earth reading Edward Gibbon? — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
What's important is that all human knowledge be made available to all intelligent people who want to learn it. — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
I was reading this James Bond book, and right away I realized that, like most books, it had too many words. — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
Reading. I know it's not a very active activity, but it is in my head. — Rachel Miner Copy Share Image
“for me, reading is remembering. the simplicity of knowing what's coming isn't so simple after all.” — Cat Patrick Copy Share Image
“I have always been good at reading, but I have never been good at reading between the lines.” — Nick Lake Copy Share Image
“I'd treat myself to a reading marathon all weekend. All the ice cream I could eat, all the pages I could read.… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
To me, the point of a novel is to take you to a still place. You can multitask with a lot of… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
My grandfather was a newspaper publisher and his paper had all the comics in NYC, so some of my earliest memories are… — Rick Moody Copy Share Image
True religion comes not front the teaching of men or the reading of books; it is the awakening of the spirit within… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I like to take a long time over breakfast, and I can't bear to talk. If a guest is a breakfast talker… — Julian Fellowes Copy Share Image
“Can there be any greater pleasure than to come across an author one enjoys and then to find they have written not… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
“Kay came to realize that she preferred her books to other people’s company. Reading was not a fallback position for her but… — Laura Lippman Copy Share Image
It's rare for me to read any fiction. I almost only read nonfiction. I don't believe in guilty pleasures, I only believe… — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
Summertime, and the reading is easy... Well, maybe not easy, exactly, but July and August are hardly the months to start working… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
All of creation, in the biblical view, was to ultimately prepare the way for the creation of man. But one does not… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
I always say that, to me, it starts with reading. This is something I tell high school kids, college kids, people trying… — Joe Posnanski Copy Share Image
“When I stepped into the brown-tiled entryway of the Kentwood Public Library, the sunlight flowing down on me from the high windows,… — Bich Minh Nguyen Copy Share Image
“They must talk to each other directly, Ender, mind to mind. What one thinks, another can also think; what one remembers, another… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“For most writers, reading is also a very intense experience; they don’t read so much as compete. The writer measure’s himself against… — Betsy Lerner Copy Share Image
The reading of the word of God should be performed in solitude, in order that the whole mind of the reader might… — Seraphim of Sarov Copy Share Image
Spoilers are cowardly. They're just people who want to anesthetize themselves against the tension and the experience that the director and the… — Simon Pegg Copy Share Image
The big idea we start with is: "How is the genome interpreted, and how are stable decisions that affect gene expression inherited… — Shirley M. Tilghman Copy Share Image
“Reading entails empathy, a sort of “trying on” of being another person for a while.” — Tat Wood Copy Share Image
I was just reading about the new Lindsay Lohan diet, which is all liquid. 80 proof. — Joan Rivers Copy Share Image
Reading Alan Zweibel makes me laugh out loud. And yet it is not a particularly funny name. — Eric Idle Copy Share Image
“If a person who constantly reads is labeled a bookworm, then I was quickly becoming what might be called a tapeworm.” — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
Whatever I'm reading at the moment seems to influence whatever I'm writing. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I kind of go in waves with reading. Sometimes I read all the time, and sometimes I can't get settled enough to… — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
The dearest ones of time, the strongest friends of the soul--BOOKS. — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
Some read to think, these are rare; some to write, these are common; and some read to talk, and these form the… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
“The atmosphere of my faith brightens with every Christ-centered book I read.” — alisa hope wagner Copy Share Image
“Too many thousands of opened books yawned between them and him. He had exiled himself.” — Jack London Copy Share Image
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body and prayer is to the soul. — Matthew Kelly Copy Share Image
You take a text, you explore it, you enter it with all your heart and all your mind. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
“All the computer can give you is a manuscript. People don't want to read manuscripts. They want to read books.” — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“worksheets - the archenemy of abundant, purposeful reading (and discussion and writing).” — Mike Schmoker Copy Share Image
