“Once you read a classic, you will start loving even the smell of the books.” — Aman Jassal Copy Share Image
Whenever I'm reading a book I enjoy, I always develop a mental list of the people I want to share it with. — Jeannette Walls Copy Share Image
Jeff Kinney's 'Diary of a Wimpy Kid' series and Stephenie Meyer's 'Twilight' books got 49,323,701 kids reading. — Jon Scieszka Copy Share Image
Biography is the most universally pleasant and profitable of all reading. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
“A book acts as the getaway car when you need to escape. Even when you're the one writing it.” — Julie Wright Copy Share Image
Many good sayings are to be found in holy books, but merely reading them will not make one religious. — Ramakrishna Copy Share Image
[On not reading newspapers:] If something important happens, your mother calls you. — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
Reading and writing are connected. I learned to read very early so I could read the comics, which I then started to… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I miss my mother very much, and I feel closest to her when I have dinner in the oven and the children… — Caitlin Flanagan Copy Share Image
If you can't read, the only thing you can do is enjoy the pictures, not the whole story. Reading is the key… — Mr. T Copy Share Image
I try to bring myself to every role. The last thing you want to seem like to other people is a talking… — Krysten Ritter Copy Share Image
Every single day, authors read at bookstores and libraries - and coffeeshops and bars - all over the country. And these readings… — Celeste Ng Copy Share Image
Most of the words you know and love and use every day are not words you learned by looking them up in… — Erin McKean Copy Share Image
“Knowledge is not obtained through being absorbed in a book, it comes when you brush aside fantasies and sensuality, switching from the… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
I can't claim to be disenchanted "with the current state of fiction" because I read so little of it. My reading is… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
Indeed the general natural Tendency of Reading good History, must be, to fix in the Minds of Youth deep Impressions of the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Over the past fifty years or so, scientists have allowed the conventions of expression available to them to become entirely too confining,… — David Mermin Copy Share Image
“The first demand any work of art makes upon us is surrender. Look. Listen. Receive. Get yourself out of the way. (There… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Anne Pitkin's poems have such lyrical sweep, such a sensitive eye for the natural world as it touches the human, that reading… — Rosellen Brown Copy Share Image
“He says he knows someone isn't from the same race as he when that person looks at his library and asks, 'Have… — Jamie S. Rich Copy Share Image
“I refilled the wineglass and took it with me for a nice long bubble bath, where I settled in with Ambrose's guide… — Lee Goldberg Copy Share Image
“Don’t let me get sappy on you, but when you get right down to it, every collection of letters is a magic… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
“Reading two pages apiece of seven books every night, eh? I was young. You bowed to yourself in the mirror, stepping forward… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
Too-broad questions, such as, "What's on your mind?" are apt to be answered "nothing" nearly one hundred percent of the time. Be… — Marge M. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Aquinas was once asked, with what compendium a man might become learned? He answered "By reading of one book. — Jeremy Taylor Copy Share Image
I must be the mate of the man I had chosen; and if he would not come to my level, I must… — Jane Swisshelm Copy Share Image
I have a sweet tooth for reading, so books migrate to my zip code en mass. — Dawn Olivieri Copy Share Image
As addictions go, reading is among the cleanest, easiest to feed, happiest. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
I'm terrible at reading fiction. I don't have the attention span - it's awful. — Charlie Brooker Copy Share Image
“One thing I will surely miss is that I couldn't read all the good books in this lifetime.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
If it is wisdom you're after, you're going to spend a lot of time on your ass reading. — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Today I continue with my science-fiction reading habit and find it very mind-expanding. Always makes me think. — Jeff Bezos Copy Share Image
Every reader, if he has a strong mind, reads himself into the book, and amalgamates his thoughts with those of the author. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book! THOREAU” — A.C. Grayling Copy Share Image
I still love comic books. When you have a kid, that's an excuse to keep reading all the comic books. — Jimmy Kimmel Copy Share Image
Sometimes I can think of nothing more blissful than going to Berkeley and reading Byron for three years. — Andrea Riseborough Copy Share Image
Outstanding high school writers reported extensive summer reading — Stephen D. Krashen Copy Share Image
As Logan walked towards her, he smiled as if reading her mind and opened his arms. — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
“Reading Proust isn't just reading a book, it's an experience and you can't reject an experience.” — William Gaddis Copy Share Image
Cheryl Cole, if you're reading this, I may not be as prety as you but at least I write my own songs. — Lily Allen Copy Share Image