I can't actually wrap my mind around it easily - I can't really visualize what 2 million books looks like... So I… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
I don't read young adult or children's books, now that my grandchildren are beyond the age of my reading to them. I… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
In anything fit to be called by the name of reading, the process itself should be absorbing and voluptuous; we should gloat… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Frederick Douglas taught that literacy is the path from slavery to freedom. There are many kinds of slavery and many kinds of… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
You can draw a penguin on a toilet reading The New York Times and it's adorable, but try doing it with an… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
Some of the material out there - I don't want to say that it's all bad - but there's a lot of… — Jay Hernandez Copy Share Image
Poor reading, like poor writing, is imposing what you already know on texts. You should go into reading to discover, not to… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
“The peace of God is with them whose mind and soul are in harmony, who are free from desire and wrath, who… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's 5 P.M. at the office. Working fast, you've finished your tasks for the day and want to go home. But none… — Robert Pozen Copy Share Image
My writing is of a very different kind from anything I've heard about. All this mythological material is out there, a big… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
And so the question becomes, what you do in the meantime? And you go - if you're forever on the move, especially… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
These days, most of my interactions with young people are centered on the poetry or theater classes I teach, so the students… — Renee Watson Copy Share Image
I studied art at Queens College, taking very few courses in literature. But I've always loved reading poetry and grew up enjoying… — Douglas Florian Copy Share Image
As a child I was really into fantasy books with elves and goblins and swords, and I went through a phase for… — Jonathan Stroud Copy Share Image
“When you have a lot of books,you don't have to worry about getting bored unless you don't know the essence of reading.Reading… — Mareez Reyes Copy Share Image
'Deal or No Deal' works nicely with my ADD/ADHD symptoms. I show up, meet the contestants, and move around the set. I'm… — Howie Mandel Copy Share Image
My free time at home is usually spent emailing, listening to music, reading and talking on the phone. I wish I was… — Steve Nash Copy Share Image
“When you love something like reading—or drawing or music or nature—it surrounds you with a sense of connection to something great.” — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I learned to dream through reading, learned to create dreams through writing, and learned to develop dreamers through teaching. I shall always… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody's piano playing in my living room has to the… — Igor Stravinsky Copy Share Image
“She had a grocer's faith in books; they can be handed out like Green Stamps and were redeemable for a variety of… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
Your inspiration is better if it comes from many different sources and your sensibilities will transform all those influences and inspiration into… — Peter Lindbergh Copy Share Image
I've always been very grateful that enough people have enjoyed reading what I've written that I've been able to pursue writing professionally. — Christopher Paolini Copy Share Image
“Welcome young poet, in here you are free to follow your star to where you should be. That door of the library… — Bernard Kops Copy Share Image
The very practice of reading [the Bible] will have a purifying effect upon your mind and heart. Let nothing take the place… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
I love these members, they get up and say, 'Read the bill ... What good is reading the bill if it's a… — John Conyers Copy Share Image
“I was burning through books every day - stories about people and places I'd never heard of. They were perhaps the only… — Sarah J. Maas Copy Share Image
Do you remember that kid that had sex with his high school teacher? I was reading online that he died today. He… — Zach Galifianakis Copy Share Image
“Elliot finished his book in bed and pondered going to get another one. He only had so much time left, and he… — Sarah Rees Brennan Copy Share Image
“Life is an act in which we spend our time trying to decide who we are supposed to be while trying to… — Ela Crain Copy Share Image
If you say to teachers, how can we, with the resources we've got here, develop a policy on reading books, then within… — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
I wonder if a single thought that has helped forward the human spirit has ever been conceived or written down in an… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
The only thing redeeming about my being born a Bengali is being brought up reading Rabindranath and Saratchandra. Other than that, the… — Sayani Gupta Copy Share Image
There are a lot of us, some published, some not, who think the literary life is the loveliest one possible, this life… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
The 10 years of theatre prepared me not only as an actor but also as a human being. It gave me the… — Manoj Bajpayee Copy Share Image
There are definitely some tricks and techniques to a good reading. Rewarding the audience that shows up to your reading is very… — Kevin Sampsell Copy Share Image
I tend not to read the size of the production into a script when I'm reading it. It's just something you respond… — Eric Bana Copy Share Image
The more I like a book, the more reluctant I am to turn the page. Lovers, even book lovers, tend to cling.… — Anatole Broyard Copy Share Image
I can tell very early on, reading a script, within six or seven pages, whether I'm looking at real people, and whether… — Sarah Lancashire Copy Share Image
Reading has made such a profound difference to my life. I'm sure I became a writer because of the power of literature… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image