“I lay in bed reading. I wasn't enjoying the book, but it's a habit with me, once I start, to read to… — Marco Douka Fool's Gold Copy Share Image
Reading poetry is an adventure in renewal, a creative act, a perpetual beginning, a rebirth of wonder. — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
I hated reading - I was not a 'good kid' - but I was determined when I put my mind to something. — Susie Wolff Copy Share Image
Reading is merely a surrogate for thinking for yourself; it means letting someone else direct your thoughts. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“There were no books in the Afterwards, which the people thought was some serious bullshit.” — Amber Sparks Copy Share Image
“Remember that the book which bores you when you are twenty or thirty will open doors for you when you are forty… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
We have a reading, a talking, and a writing public. When shall we have a thinking? — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington Copy Share Image
I have been very interested in the number of kids who have read the Sherlock Holmes books after reading the Mary Russell… — Laurie R. King Copy Share Image
A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Life is like a book. There are good chapters, and there are bad chapters. But when you get to a bad chapter,… — Brian Falkner Copy Share Image
“People don't read any more. It's a sad state of affairs. Reading's the only thing that allows you to use your imagination.… — Lemmy Kilmister Copy Share Image
It's exciting being in the present. You're always reading emails, talking about the future, looking at pictures on Facebook of the past.… — Jonathan Krisel Copy Share Image
I found myself reading about this 16-year-old kid inventing a micro-organism to save the ocean. It made me realise that we can… — Oliver Sykes Copy Share Image
I am currently reading, "The Broker" by John Grisham. it is alittle slow to start so I will have to let you… — John Grisham Copy Share Image
'The Dublin Magazine' has been edited with good taste, and it is very agreeable reading, but to speak quite candidly, I do… — George A. Moore Copy Share Image
“In some literature, I’ve read, weather is used as a metaphor. The darker and stormier the weather outside the more diabolical the… — Benjamin R. Smith Copy Share Image
I had very low self-esteem. Books saved me. I found friends in stories like The Chronicles of Narnia and A Tree Grows… — Jenny Lawson Copy Share Image
Found one of my old journals. from right around the time we were heading out on tour with NFG in the UK… — Hayley Williams Copy Share Image
“From the cave to the skyscraper, from the club to weapons of mass destruction, from the tautological life of the tribe to… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
Poetry springs directly from our primal need and capacity for communication[Poetry] mobilizes such a concentration of devices, such an intensification of language… — Sven Birkerts Copy Share Image
“There is only one way to read, which is to browse in libraries and bookshops, picking up books that attract you, reading… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
Some people say that you should read people who think completely differently from you so that everything you read and everything that… — Ronald Frame Copy Share Image
“When it's summer, people sit a lot. Or lie. Lie in the sense of recumbency. A good heavy book holds you down.… — Roy Blount Jr Copy Share Image
“Life isn’t really short. There are just too many good books to read in one lifetime.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
As a rule reading fiction is as hard to me as trying to hit a target by hurling feathers at it. I… — William James Copy Share Image
The forbidden things were a great influence on my life. I was forbidden from reading A Catcher in the Rye. — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
“Despereaux was reading the story out loud to himself. He was reading from the beginning so that he could get to the… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
You know, in addition to your mind-reading abilities, I may have absorbed some sluttiness from your blood, — Jeaniene Frost Copy Share Image
Novelists are always resisting autobiographical readings of their work, because they know how false those can be. — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
I love reading. I'm fortunate enough to have signed books by Faulkner, Steinbeck, Thomas Pynchon. — John Larroquette Copy Share Image
“Literature takes us away from our grey everyday experience, but brings us back enriched with new sensibilities.” — Willie van Peer Copy Share Image
Spending one hour with Isaias is far more worthwhile, rewarding and enlightening than reading ten books — Meles Zenawi Copy Share Image
Mom, I really think I should just stay home. I mean Ive got all this AP English summer reading. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Moreover, people have become accustomed to reading to escape as opposed to reading to think.” — Leigh M. Lane Copy Share Image
“Just knowing that they could read made the Baudelaire orphans feel as if their wretched lives could be a little brighter.” — Lemony Snicket Copy Share Image
You can't start a new chapter of the book if you keep re-reading the last one. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“There are only two ways, really, to become a writer. One is to write. The other is to read.” — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
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