“It was a surprise, and a delight, to see children devour books. Without ever knowing it, they were receiving an education.” — Pat Frank Copy Share Image
“I’ve lowered my character with a great deal of unwholesome reading material.” — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
When you read a book as a child, it becomes a part of your identity in a way that no other reading… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For the reader who has put away comic books, but isn't yet ready for editorials in the Daily News. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
“When you find that one book, that one that makes you tingle. It's almost like you found a little piece of magic.” — Carmela Dutra Copy Share Image
Text is just ink on a page until a reader comes along and gives it life. — Louise Rosenblatt Copy Share Image
“They had only ever discussed books but what, in this life, is more personal than books?” — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
“Get a good book, get few bottles of water or few cups of tea/coffee or Chocolate milk and start reading.” — Deyth Banger Copy Share Image
“I'm so glad I have my own copy. I can read them again and again. I can read them again and again… — Jo Walton Copy Share Image
Reading a good comic is a creative act. Watching a film is often a more passive experience, and since I'm interested in… — Dave McKean Copy Share Image
I've never really considered doing stand up, but I have done readings/spoken word things fairly often in which I'll just tell a… — Laurie Notaro Copy Share Image
It's always an exciting prospect when you're reading a script and you're almost starting to speak, you're almost reading out loud very… — Jason Watkins Copy Share Image
I was born in Japan and raised in Japan, but those are the only things that make me Japanese, I've grown up… — Hideo Kojima Copy Share Image
Reading dreams. That's what started her walking down the road. Every day she'd walk a little further: a mile, and come home.… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
Nature has her language, and she is not unveracious; but we don't know all the intricacies of her syntax just yet, and… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I want my work to be as inclusive as possible, because sex isn't just for some selected group of people, it's for… — Rachel Kramer Bussel Copy Share Image
Attention spans are changing. It's very noticeable. I am very aware that the kind of books I read in my childhood kids… — Cressida Cowell Copy Share Image
Now, I do say, "It's possible. You might be the first. I'm not saying it's impossible, but the odds are very much… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
“There are metaphors more real than the people who walk in the street. There are images tucked away in books that live… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What's agitating about solitude is the inner voice telling you that you should be mated to somebody, that solitude is a mistake.… — Charles Baxter Copy Share Image
“in all the reading which you have ever read, did you ever read such a book as Locke’s Essay upon the Human… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Spiritual life is not mystic; when you decide to work with God, you have stepped to mystery, God can intervene at any… — Patience Johnson Copy Share Image
At the age of three I began to look around my grandfather's library. My first knowledge of astronomy came from reading and… — Jesse L. Greenstein Copy Share Image
I quit flying myself last year and that was difficult for me because I enjoy it as much as playing golf. It… — Arnold Palmer Copy Share Image
The reading public isn't born that doesn't think foreigners are either funny or faintly sinister. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“The greatest compliments I’ve ever received were complaints from readers that I made them stay up all night reading.” — H.E. Fairbanks Copy Share Image
At school I was really heavily dyslexic, so I really struggled academically with reading and writing. — Freya Ridings Copy Share Image
Stop reading the news for a week; you will see that the world will turn from red to blue! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
In the main, there are two sorts of books: those that no one reads and those that no one ought to read. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“On the day of judgment, it will be demanded of us not what we have read, but what we have done.” — Thomas à Kempis Copy Share Image
I grew up actually reading 'The Hobbit,' not 'The Lord of the Rings.' I loved 'The Hobbit' growing up. — Elijah Wood Copy Share Image
“In my 8th decade of life, it appears as though my reading list resembles a random walk.” — Lotus Landry Copy Share Image
Reading the Book of Mormon is one of the greatest persuaders to get men on missions. — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
Reading is a conversation. All books talk. But a good book listens as well. — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
I do not know any reading more easy, more fascinating, more delightful than a catalogue. — Anatole France Copy Share Image
Ideally, we should like to define a good book as one which 'permits, invites, or compels' good reading — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Every reading is partial, but that does not absolve us from the quest for meaning, which defines us as a species. — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
“Living is worth the effort if only because without life we could not read or imagine stories.” — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
Anyone who reads a book with a sense of obligation does not understand the art of reading. — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
Why are we reading, if not in hope of beauty laid bare, life heightened and its deepest mystery probed? — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
