There is only one situation I can think of in which men and women make an effort to read better than they… — Mortimer Adler Copy Share Image
When most people come in from work, 95 percent of them reach for the remote control. Then they read before they go… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“Life is short, but art is long. Sophocles is dead, but Oedipus lives on…Each of us when we read a great piece… — James W. Sire Copy Share Image
I loved reading. I was one of those kids who was supposed to go to bed but had a torch under the… — Jo Swinson Copy Share Image
The thing that inspires me most is reading and just observing the people around me. I think those are the two things… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
“I’ve been reading a heap too—not swimming. I don’t swim. I like baths, though, and they allow the added bonus of being… — Cath Crowley Copy Share Image
“Keep reading. Read during your break at work, before bed, on the bus, in the waiting room. Read at the table, in… — Bookeworm94 Copy Share Image
The advice of a scholar, whose piles of learning were set on fire by imagination, is never to be forgotten. Proportion an… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
“A fine gentleman like that, they said, had no need of books. Let him leave books, they said, to the palsied or… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Why do you read then?' Partly for pleasure, because it's a habit and I'm just as uncomfortable if I don't read as… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“In my introduction to Warriors, the first of our crossgenre anthologies, I talked about growing up in Bayonne, New Jersey, in the… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“Coleridge wrote a poem called ‘The Eolian Harp,’ in which he explored the notion of music slumbering on its instrument. It's a… — Amal El-Mohtar Copy Share Image
The one man who should never attempt an explanation of a poem is its author. If the poem can be improved by… — Archibald MacLeish Copy Share Image
When I look back at what I've written and try to explain it, it doesn't help, but it helps to be in… — Karl Ove Knausgard Copy Share Image
“Exposition is a mode of thought, a method of learning, and a means of expression. Almost all of the characteristics we associate… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
Certainly with a book, people are going to be able to read it and give themselves permission to have that delicious feeling… — Susan Hill Copy Share Image
I found Uriah reading a great fat book, with such demonstrative attention, that his lank forefinger followed up every line as he… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
A common defense among obituary-fanciers such as myself is that the obit is not about death at all. It is about life.… — Tom Rachman Copy Share Image
Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
“The great thing about books was the solidity of the written word. You might change and your reading might change as a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Then I though of reading -- the nice and subtle happiness of reading ... this joy not dulled by age, this polite… — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share Image
My mother read secondarily for information; she sank as a hedonist into novels. She read Dickens in the spirit in which she… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
“Reading is a source of liberation. Children who are taught to read early on, are commonly taught to communicate in other significant… — Asa Don Brown Copy Share Image
“The nature of immortality is a mystery,' he says, speaking so softly that we have to lean closer to hear.' But everything… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
As soon as I started reading, I found myself drawn to fictional character's homes as much as I was to the characters… — Mary Kay Andrews Copy Share Image
I get stressed preparing the night before a red-carpet event, so I like to try and plan on doing nothing in the… — Poppy Delevingne Copy Share Image
In the moment of reading, the writer comes up to the surface and the reader comes up to the surface and they… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
The only advice ... that one person can give another about reading is to take no advice, to follow your own instincts,… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“The more I thought about it, the more I realized that reading—that is, really reading, interpreting—literature is practice for reading and interpreting… — Karen Swallow Prior Copy Share Image
Adapting a Judy Blume book is something I really wanted to do, and you couldn't grow up in the '90s without knowing… — Willa Holland Copy Share Image
“Life's best adventures are as close as your nearest bookshelf. Tour Europe with the Count of Monte Cristo. Dance a ball with… — Ally Carter Copy Share Image
As centuries of dictators have known, an illiterate crowd is the easiest to rule; since the craft of reading cannot be untaught… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
Growing up in the inner city, a lot of kids didn't think reading was cool. I'm trying to show them that it… — C. J. McCollum Copy Share Image
This was my only and my constant comfort. When I think of it, the picture always rises in my mind, of a… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“I also able to graciously survive the PhD from the grace, which comes from prayer, bible reading, extensive story reading, fasting, fellowship,… — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
Updike's style is an exquisite blend of Melville and Austen: reading him is like cutting through whale blubber with embroidery scissors. — Florence King Copy Share Image
Reading and discovering fiction has taught me how to empathise, understand falling in love and all those complex relationships that people have… — Daniel Tammet Copy Share Image
Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, but to weigh and consider . . . Histories make men wise. — Francis Bacon Sr Copy Share Image
My producing partner and I were shown a novel we really liked. It was called 'My Abandonment' by Peter Rock, and we… — Debra Granik Copy Share Image
I spend so much time on the Internet...I feel like I'm a million pages into the worst book ever, and I'm never… — Aziz Ansari Copy Share Image
