Reading fiction not only develops our imagination and creativity, it gives us the skills to be alone. It gives us the ability… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
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Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Some read for style, and some for argument: one has little care about the sentiment, he observes only how it is expressed;… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Newspaper readership is declining like crazy. In fact, there's a good chance that nobody is reading my column. — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
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if you want your name to be remembered after your death either do something worth writing or write some thing worth reading — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Reading aloud sounds like a good idea, but honestly, it doesn't work very well. Good dialogue in a book doesn't actually bear… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
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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
“The silence. End of all poetry, all romances. Earlier, frightened, you began to have some intimation of it: so many pages had… — Sofia Samatar Copy Share Image
We didn't think the library was funny looking in it's faux- Greek splendor, nor did we find the cuisine limited or bland,… — Audrey Niffenegger Copy Share Image
In the sixties, in the middle sixties, suddenly comics became this hip thing, and college students and hippies were reading them. So… — Trina Robbins Copy Share Image
Having a dog or cat will open your heart. Reading a book will open your mind. Having both a pet and a… — Mark Rubinstein Copy Share Image
My mom taught me to read when I was two or three. When I was five I read and wrote well enough… — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
We all have a hungry heart, and one of the things we hunger for is happiness. So as much as I possibly… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
Perhaps the greatest lesson [Huxley] learned from reading Carlyle was that real religion, that emotive feeling for Truth and Beauty, could flourish… — Adrian Desmond Copy Share Image
I grew up reading Tolkien, and I love him. But I love him in the way that you love that rambly old… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I worry that the level of interrupt, the sort of overwhelming rapidity of information — and especially of stressful information — is… — Eric Schmidt Copy Share Image
“What then? Are we only to buy the books that we read? The question has merely to be thus bluntly put, and… — Arnold Bennett Copy Share Image
When you're reading, you're laughing and not quite noticing what's happening. One second you're still kind of chuckling, and then all of… — Moshe Kasher Copy Share Image
My negotiation skills are are on par with George Bush's reading ability. And just like Dubya, every time I've tried to put… — Chelsea Handler Copy Share Image
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