“And he loves to read. He loves the whisper of the pages and the way his fingertips catch on rough paper, the… — Keith Miller Copy Share Image
The reading of all good books is indeed like a conversation with the noblest men of past centuries who were the authors… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
I remember reading Paul Fussell my first year teaching at U of Hawai'i and being like, oh, it has a turn! Why… — Juliana Spahr Copy Share Image
I want to create this magical moment when a kid is sitting on a parent's lap and they're reading a story together… — Maria Rodale Copy Share Image
“You learned this,” Kabsal said, lifting up her drawing of Jasnah, “from a book.” “Er…yes?” He looked back at the picture. “I… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
Five to 10 years from now, if not sooner, the vast majority of 'The New Republic' readers are likely to be reading… — Chris Hughes Copy Share Image
I'm a talk-show junkie. I'd rather listen to real folks stumbling to express their own thoughts than to polished puppets reading what… — Donella Meadows Copy Share Image
“A responsible woman doesn’t see opportunities and needs and look the other way pretending not to see them rather she gets to… — Agu Jaachynma N.E Copy Share Image
The court decided, based on its reading of our precedents, that the effects test of Lemon is violated whenever government action creates… — Anthony Kennedy Copy Share Image
If a carpenter makes a chair that's comfortable for the person who's going to sit in it, he's done his job. If… — Jack Kirby Copy Share Image
“into which he placed a large-print copy of Wordsworth’s poem “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud.” To this he added the bookworms,… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
An acquaintanceship with the literature of the world may be won by any person who will devote half an hour a day… — John Andreas Widtsoe Copy Share Image
Some men look at Constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them, like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched.… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Filipinos are not a reading people, and despite the compulsory course on the life and works of Rizal today, from the elementary… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If I don't like someone and I start reading their stuff, it seems like my brain will just automatically start criticizing everything… — Tao Lin Copy Share Image
“Oh, maybe a little treasure for the more rabid Incunks, the collectors and the academics who maintained their positions in large part… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Anyone who has ever spent time listening to a legislature knows the astonishing speed at which all presiding officers and reading clerks… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
“Whatever the reasons, reading somehow awakens something in a kid's life that makes them take their own life more seriously and other… — Dana Gioia Copy Share Image
I stretched out my hand towards the little bookshelf where I kept cookery and devotional books, the most comfortable bedside reading. — Barbara Pym Copy Share Image
I love fiction. I like reading short stories. Cupcakes, pop songs, Polaroids, and short stories. They all raise and answer questions in… — Laurel Nakadate Copy Share Image
Pretending that there are no choices to be made - reading only books, for example, which are cheery and safe and nice… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
There's something unrefined about a reading woman, they always reek of the lamp. How can she grow up to be a lady… — Florence King Copy Share Image
I was reading stories by Raymond Carver and some of his stuff sort of ended abruptly here and there, where in other… — Limmy Copy Share Image
I'm not going to make judgments about what people are reading. I just want them to be reading. And I think reading… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
Be a good reading role model. Show kids what you like to read, what you don't like to read, how you choose… — Jon Scieszka Copy Share Image
Are you reading your Bible?" Ah, well...I was." And then you quit." You got it." Then, you can expect to be weak… — Jan Karon Copy Share Image
I still recommend reading travel guides as an insight to a traveller's perspective on fantasy worlds. Nearly all characters end up travelling… — Trudi Canavan Copy Share Image
Collect books, even if you don't plan on reading them right away. Filmmaker John Waters has said, "Nothing is more important than… — Austin Kleon Copy Share Image
On reading the first part of Anthony Powell's four-part masterpiece, 'A Dance to the Music of Time,' I was struck by one… — Rebecca Pidgeon Copy Share Image
The key thing is, don't worry about if anyone is reading you or not. Figure out your voice and figure out what… — Will Leitch Copy Share Image
I am an apologist for the reading brain. It represents a miracle that springs from the brain's unique capacity to rearrange itself… — Maryanne Wolf Copy Share Image
“She's reading in bed when I enter but quickly hides the cover when she sees me, as if I don't already know… — Michelle Krys Copy Share Image
“My fingers burn behind the keys of my typewriter, the lettering fading with every thoughtful strike. The many words I write I… — A.K. Kuykendall Copy Share Image
“Books are like oxygen to a deep-sea diver," she had once said. "Take them away and you might as well begin counting… — Alan Bradley Copy Share Image
I've always been a fan of reading art catalogues from exhibitions, and plays, and I've worked with a surrealist German playwright, Heiner… — Jenny Hval Copy Share Image
I've heard a lot of great success stories from writers - how so many of them struggled to get where they are… — Kevin Sampsell Copy Share Image
It's just I hate reading the description 'offbeat' about a character in a script, because I, along with Seth Green, Jamie Kennedy… — Breckin Meyer Copy Share Image
The U.S. Army records alone for World War II weigh 17,000 tons, and even the best historians have not done more than… — Rick Atkinson Copy Share Image
Authors like reading. Go figure. So it's not surprising that we sometimes bog down in the research stage of new writing projects. — Edward M. Lerner Copy Share Image
I'm not sure that the benefit - as a writer and as a citizen - that I would get from reading at… — Sharon Olds Copy Share Image
