Most of what makes a book 'good' is that we are reading it at the right moment for us. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
I just thought you'd like to know I can read. You got anything needs readin' I can do it. — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
I respect journalism. I was always very aware of journalism from a very broad point of view, but I'd say my baptism… — James D'arcy Copy Share Image
Books, gentlemen, are a species of men, and introduced to them you circulate in the "very best society" that this world can… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
It is impossible to estimate full influence of the reading of the Word in a home day after day and year after… — J.R. Miller Copy Share Image
“Nothing is more painful to me than the disdain with which people treat second-rate authors, as if there were room only for… — Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve Copy Share Image
“I can’t go as far as Barthes in killing off the author, but I’m with him on the importance of the reader.… — Thomas C. Foster Copy Share Image
Two kinds of reading can be distinguished. I call them reading like a reader and reading like a writer ... when you… — Frank Smith Copy Share Image
The writer will write in his or her words, but the readers, even when they are not reading you, will take it… — Amitava Kumar Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of reading, reading which is contemplation - even a kind of vision & reading for information. For the… — Mary Butts Copy Share Image
If your heart takes more pleasure in reading novels, or watching TV, or going to the movies, or talking to friends, rather… — Keith Green Copy Share Image
I was reading through all these NSA programs that Snowden has revealed, and one of the ones that fascinated me was that… — Ted Rall Copy Share Image
“Man is like a bride unto God. God is jealous when man veers away from Him.” — Jaachynma N.E. Agu Copy Share Image
People are more easily manipulated when they don't have information. If you ensure that kids grow up without basic reading skills, math… — Tony Kushner 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
In my experience most mathematicians are intellectually lazy and especially dislike reading experimental papers. He seemed to have very strong biological intuitions… — Francis Crick Copy Share Image
Oh, I'm nerdy about science fiction and fantasy and graphic novels and reading, and I'm nerdy about board games. My favorite board… — Billy Campbell Copy Share Image
I allude to Back to the Future in the 1985 story to let folks know it was an inspiration and because it… — Kiese Laymon Copy Share Image
what I love is slowness. Slow people, slow reading, slow traveling, slow eggs, and slow love. Everything good comes slow. — Lynne Sharon Schwartz Copy Share Image
My reading of philosophy and history is desultory; I know so much and yet so little. — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
“Reading is like skiing. When done well, when done by an expert, both reading and skiing are graceful, harmonious, activities. When done… — Mortimer J. Adler Copy Share Image
I became an inventor by accident. I was out of the Air Force in 1956. No, no, that's not true: I went… — Woody Norris Copy Share Image
When you find a writer who really is saying something to you, read everything that writer has written and you will get… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
