“Dare to imagine. Dare to be. Books are the seeds. Dreams are the soil. The fruit of the harvest, a world reborn.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“Reading leads to knowing more. Knowing more leads to arrogance. Reading further leads to humbleness.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
The only complete reading is that which transforms the book into a simultaneous network of reciprocal relations. — Jean Rousset Copy Share Image
“I can read. A little. I kind of protested it in School(TM). On the grounds that the silent 'E' is stupid.” — M.T. Anderson Copy Share Image
I don't care if a reader hates one of my stories, just as long as he finishes the book. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't want anyone reading my writing to think about style. I just want them to be in the story. — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
“How could you be alone, when you can find company in reading books?” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Think about the books that you were reading at a certain crisis in your life, what you were reading, and that's because… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
I used to read every, well, most nights. I think reading helps me in terms of relaxing... It helps me to get… — Rio Ferdinand Copy Share Image
Poetry seems to sink into us the way prose doesn't. I can still quote verses I learned when I was very young,… — Jack Prelutsky Copy Share Image
If you read the first page of one of my novels, I can guarantee that you will read the last one. This… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
It always struck me as pretty cool that people who changed the world often knew each other. After reading them separately, hearing… — Joe Lonsdale Copy Share Image
Because of the way we let the actors improvise, it feels like you're watching people react rather than actors reading lines -… — Oren Peli Copy Share Image
I will have an endless invisible night and read all those books and understand all until I am a liquid chromium cascade… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When you grow up starving, you cannot point with pride to a book you've just spent six hours reading. Picking cotton, sewing… — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
“In all memory there is a degree of fallenness; we are all exiles from our own pasts, just as, on looking up… — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
I own that I am disposed to say grace upon twenty other occasions in the course of the day besides my dinner.… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
“I believe that the phrase ‘obligatory reading’ is a contradiction in terms; reading should not be obligatory. Should we ever speak of… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
The idea that a poem was a made thing stayed with me, and I decided then that I wanted to be an… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
If you give the government the right to determine the consumption of the human body, to determine whether one should smoke or… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Hey, great idea: if you have kids, give your partner reading vouchers next Christmas. Each voucher entitles the bearer to two hours'… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“Our masterpieces are Shakespeare and Jane Austen and griots and Murasaki Shikibu, but they’re also J.K. Rowling and Chuck Palahnuik and Douglas… — Beth Revis Copy Share Image
...what I enjoy in a narrative is not directly its content or even its structure, but rather the abrasions I impose upon… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
“We only pass this way once..unless our significant other is reading the map..” — kjforce Copy Share Image
Reading is important. If you know how to read then the whole world opens up to you — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
...next to the pleasure of reading a favourite fishing book comes that of persuading a friend to read it too. — Arthur Ransome Copy Share Image
I like to know what the gestation of the idea is, I like to know the foundation, and I do a lot… — Kieran Bew Copy Share Image
“She was the type of librarian who has “Reading is supposed to be educational, not fun” tattooed somewhere.” — Molly Harper Copy Share Image
“When reading Stephen King, don’t get too close to the kids or the dogs. It will only break your heart.” — Brendan P. Myers Copy Share Image
How much there is in books that one does not want to know, that it would be a mere weariness and burden… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, when inspiration runs dry, I drink classical music until my words spill out.” — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
“Some swore the cats had been caught pawing through the pages of open books - reading.” — Sarah J. Maas Copy Share Image
“Myths are not to be despised, but reading them literally is not to be recommended.” — Peter Burke Copy Share Image
The greatest pleasure in life is that of reading while we are young. I have had as much of this pleasure perhaps… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“I read a lot. I love books. If they came in a bottle, I'd be a drunk too.” — Alyxandra Harvey Copy Share Image
I have now a library of nearly nine hundred volumes, over seven hundred of which I wrote myself. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“To put an arrogant 'famous' writer in his place: pretend to be illiterate.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
We shall not benefit from reading the Old Testament unless we look for and meditate on the glory of Christ in its… — John Owen Copy Share Image
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