My parents have taught me the value of reading and self-love through books that have characters that look like me and talk… — Marley Dias Copy Share Image
“Reading is not an end in itself, but a means to an end. Its chief purpose is to help towards filling in… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
I had been reading this book about Zen Koan philosophy, and it was talking about the right here and the right now,… — Sammy Hagar Copy Share Image
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I watch a lot of bad TV. I spend my entire day reading and writing, and after dinner my idea of fun… — Nathaniel Philbrick Copy Share Image
The awful thing, as a kid reading, was that you came to the end of the story, and that was it. I… — Robert Creeley Copy Share Image
I prefer a great novel, but many novels come with a bunch of novel-y writerliness that feels sort of macho to me,… — Miranda July Copy Share Image
Murder, arson, adultery, drugging and drinking, cruel politics--reading a book crammed with such activities can make the timid and yearning among us… — Edith Pearlman Copy Share Image
I think every citizen in Burlington has a right to voice their opinion and participate in the local political process no matter… — Tim Scott Copy Share Image
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“I think reading is sexy.” Daemon smiled at himself. My brows inched up my forehead. ”Do you now?” “Oh, yes, and you… — Jennifer L. Armentrout Copy Share Image
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History in the making is a very uncertain thing. It might be better to wait till the South American republic has got… — Anna Brackett Copy Share Image
Anyone who says the Backstreet Boys can't sing is crazy. They're probably just reading some highbrow critic who hates anyone the general… — Tony Orlando Copy Share Image
How important my books are or anybody's books are, I don't know. I don't think they are terribly important I think that… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
One year at the SAG Awards, somebody practically knocked me over, and it was Helen Mirren. She was like, 'Oh my God… — Megan Mullally Copy Share Image
For me, reading has to be pleasurable. Otherwise, I'm ditching the book and turning on Netflix. There's way too much good TV… — Christopher Noxon Copy Share Image
I hate Nassau and the Bahamas. It's one of those places I'd always wanted to visit since reading Ian Fleming but it… — Tony Parsons Copy Share Image
I think children love reading, and they will make time for it if we put the right books into their hands. And… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
I've been reading about the idea of cyclical lives - it matches up to the idea of string theory and a multiverse.… — Sturgill Simpson Copy Share Image
“The difference between reading a story and studying a story is the difference between living the story and killing the story and… — Cory Doctorow Copy Share Image
“I rejoice to concur with the common reader; for by the common sense of readers, uncorrupted by literary prejudices, after all the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
It's a weird thing when you spend your life trying to find these great scripts and great parts. You are reading scripts,… — Chiwetel Ejiofor Copy Share Image
I love reading other people's diaries, especially someone like Virginia Woolf's - such a formidable woman that it's a revelation when she… — Michael Palin Copy Share Image
Don't underestimate the value people place on authenticity. Politicians listen to the focus groups and say the things they think people want… — Rochelle B Lazarus Copy Share Image
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Literature is the human activity that takes the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty — Lionel Trilling Copy Share Image
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If Brideshead Revisited is not a great book, it's so like a great book that many of us, at least while reading… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
All the general propositions favouring freedom I had .. imbibed at my father's knee or acquired by candle-end reading of Burke and Hayek... — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Poetry is a vocal art for me - but not necessarily a performative one. It might be reading to oneself or recalling… — Robert Pinsky Copy Share Image
I want you to be afraid to turn the page (and to do that) you need to show right from the beginning… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
Reading our Bible is actually fundamental, but there is more if we are going to walk in His truth. Even if we… — Rick Joyner Copy Share Image
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After my cancer diagnosis this year, I was offered a choice of treatments. I wanted to make an informed decision. This meant… — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
The book, that stubbornly unelectric artifact of pure typography, possesses resources conducive to the flourishing of the soul. A thoughtful reading of… — Douglas Groothuis Copy Share Image
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