Next to praying there is nothing so important in practical religion as Bible-reading. — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
Philadelphia is the only city, where you can experience the thrill of victory and the agony of reading about it the next… — Mike Schmidt Copy Share Image
He told himself that he would have to start reading thicker books: they lasted longer, and made more comfortable pillows. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
I sort of love reading the scripts and going, 'Oh wow, what a great idea. I never would have thought of that. — Edie Falco Copy Share Image
To finish is both a relief and a release from an extraordinarily pleasant prison. — Robert Burchfield Copy Share Image
Reading English novels I always adore the ability to write without fear about inner psychological things that are so delicate. — Olga Tokarczuk Copy Share Image
I'm a quiet person's nightmare - the only time I shut up is when I'm reading, because I'm a book geek. — Jodie Whittaker Copy Share Image
People always imagine that the whole of Victorian England was sitting around reading Alice in Wonderland - in fact only a tiny… — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
Writers, because they write, are condemned never to be readers of their own stories...The memory of first putting a story into words… — Elena Ferrante Copy Share Image
You know how it is when you're reading a book and falling asleep, you're reading, reading... and all of a sudden you… — Steven Wright Copy Share Image
It got so bad that by the time I was graduated, the only reading I did was in order to get the… — R. A. Salvatore Copy Share Image
I hate to mention age, but I come from an era when we weren't consumed by technology and television. My mother insisted… — Jimmy Buffett Copy Share Image
I wasn't able to do much reading when I was chairman of the Reserve Board. The workload was too large, and the… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
One of the pleasures of reading is seeing this alteration on the pages, and the way, by reading it, you have made… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
That's what is so precious in reading this way - you can plumb the depths of another's experience while sitting still with… — Ramona Koval Copy Share Image
“She read her way around the library, hungry for journeys, adventures, laughter and passion. She took each new book to bed like… — Cath Staincliffe Copy Share Image
The Spirit of Cities presents a new approach to the study of cities in which the focus is placed on a city's… — Nathan Glazer Copy Share Image
“But suddenly, Pentunia spied the Book. The firecrackers had blown it open so that the pages showed. She had never seen them… — Roger Duvoisin Copy Share Image
I'm beginning to believe that Killer Illiteracy ought to rank near heart disease and cancer as one of the leading causes of… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
No, books. She would have maybe twenty going at a time, lying all over our house--on the kitchen table, by her bed,… — Kami Garcia Copy Share Image
In novels you're able to occupy character's internal thoughts and it's really hard to do in a film or a TV show.… — Joe Meno Copy Share Image
I hate being too serious about anything. If I'm with my friend, I want to be having fun with him or her.… — Stan Lee Copy Share Image
Although a life-long fashion dropout, I have absorbed enough by reading Harper's Bazaar while waiting at the dentist's to have grasped that… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
The best friend a man can have is reading and writing, and the bad ones to avoid are Go and chess and… — Hojo Soun Copy Share Image
I didn't have the best time at primary school so reading a book was my way of getting away from whatever was… — Carrie Hope Fletcher Copy Share Image
My favorite room in my house is my bedroom; my private space where I can go to do my reading or listen… — Shirley Ballas Copy Share Image
“My preferred pastimes are conversation, reading, travel and writing, in that order.” — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
I have such thin skin, so I make a concerted effort to avoid reading anything about myself. — Justin Long Copy Share Image
I was reading Plato's 'The Republic' at age 18, and I can't account fully the electricity that had for me. — Raymond Moody Copy Share Image
“Books for general reading always smell badly. The odor of common people hangs about them.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I have spent many, many hours reading J.K. Rowling's work. I am a known 'Harry Potter' fan. — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
Love isn't about reading the same page, but it's about reading the whole book and smile — Uknown Copy Share Image
“If you say “I don't read” like it's something to be proud of, punch yourself in the face repeatedly.” — Donald Bell Copy Share Image
Students need to make their own choices about reading material and writing topics. — Donalyn Miller Copy Share Image
“A book is a magic carpet that flies you off somewhere. A book is a door. You open it. You step through.… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“In relationships, happiness is not to be found in someone but to be generated with someone” — Ela Crain Copy Share Image
Books - the best antidote against the marsh-gas of boredom and vacuity — George Steiner Copy Share Image
