I haven't read for pleasure in 35 years. I mean, I get a lot of pleasure from what I read... For me,… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
It's like the code of living by yourself. People who are single know what I'm talking about. You eat standing up, reading… — Mary Chapin Carpenter Copy Share Image
You ever talk about a movie with someone that read the book? They're always so condescending. 'Ah, the book was much better… — Jim Gaffigan Copy Share Image
I'm a failed poet. Reading poetry helps me to see the world differently, and I try to infuse my prose with figurative… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
I devoured books like a person taking vitamins, afraid that otherwise I would remain this gelatinous narcissist, with no possibility of ever… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
For Borges, the core of reality lay in books; reading books, writing books, talking about books. In a visceral way, he was… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
I never really took a proper art class in college. I just started reading art magazines and going to galleries. I was… — Larry Gagosian Copy Share Image
As a teenager, I read a lot of science-fiction, but then I read 'Catch-22' and 'The Catcher in the Rye' and started… — Jed Mercurio Copy Share Image
“When a person reaches the end of a book and says, 'I want to read that again,' what he's actually saying is… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
Deeply disturbing in a way that only the most honest stories are, YACCUB is a fiercely written, daring journey through America's urban… — Brandon Massey Copy Share Image
With this book in my hands, reading aloud to my friends, questioning them, explaining to them, I was made clearly to understand… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“Far from being writers—founders of their own place, heirs of the peasants of earlier ages now working on the soil of language,… — Michel de Certeau Copy Share Image
A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called "leaves") imprinted with dark pigmented… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Homer and Candy passed by the empty and brightly lit dispensary; they peeked into Nurse Angela's empty office. Homer knew better than… — John Irving Copy Share Image
“Everyone always talks about the magic of books being able to take you to other places, to let you see exotic worlds,… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
“I never could read Foucault. I find philosophy tedious. All of my knowledge comes from reading novels and some history. I read… — Michael Gira Copy Share Image
Although Lewis Carroll thought of The Hunting of the Snark as a nonsense ballad for children, it is hard to imagine -… — Martin Gardner Copy Share Image
TV and film were always governing passions of mine, and that first wave of great HBO shows in the early years of… — Nic Pizzolatto Copy Share Image
Edward Conard provides a provocative interpretation of the causes of the global financial crisis and the policies needed to return to rapid… — Nouriel Roubini Copy Share Image
I came home one day and Nick was in his bedroom reading 'To Kill a Mockingbird,' and the tears were just flowing… — David Sheff Copy Share Image
[People who have left the ISIS] say that there comes a moment when the inconsistencies and apparent hypocrisies of their sheikh lets… — Rukmini Maria Callimachi Copy Share Image
“This idea that the buying, or even the reading, of books is an expensive hobby and beyond the reach of the average… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Best-sellerism is the star system of the book world. A "best seller" is a celebrity among books. It is a book known… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
Instapaper wouldn't be of as much value if it weren't for these mobile and e-reader devices. They give you a separate physical… — Marco Arment Copy Share Image
“Initially [my favorite books] seem to immerse me in another life, but ultimately they immerse me in me; I am looking through… — Derek Thompson Copy Share Image
The opinion of the great body of the reading public is very materially influenced even by the unsupported assertions of those who… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
Writing a poem is a more personal experience, I think, than writing prose. And perhaps reading a poem is a more personal… — Nick Laird Copy Share Image
I was merely a child when I opened a book 9a scroll to be more specific). What I read within those lines… — Daegus (43rd King Of Atlantis Copy Share Image
The regret on our side is, they used to say years ago, we are reading about you in science class. Now they… — Neil Armstrong Copy Share Image
After college, I spent a decade working the kinds of jobs that I write about - bartender, shoe salesman, kitchen man -… — George Pelecanos Copy Share Image
“Don't join the book burners. Don't think you're going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don't be afraid… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
Singing your own songs live is so personal, it's like standing there reading out your diary pages. I still get really nervous… — Roxanne Emery Copy Share Image
I just preach the importance of reading, the importance of learning and challenging yourself to be the best you can be in… — Ha Ha Clinton-Dix Copy Share Image
Early readers assumed the Book of Mormon people ranged up and down North and South America from upstate New York to Chili.… — Richard Bushman Copy Share Image
When I was a teenager, I thought if any of my friends or people at school see me reading a book, they're… — George Pelecanos Copy Share Image
I really look with commiseration over the great body of my fellow citizens who, reading newspapers, live and die in the belief… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
He does not always remain bent over the pages; he often leans back and closes his eyes over a line he has… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Working on a green screen set, yeah, it's almost like reading from a novel, taking those black words and creating a world… — Caterina Scorsone Copy Share Image
The things worth writing about, and the things worth reading about, are the things that feel almost beyond description at the start… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
I suppose if I had to give a one-word answer to the question of why I read, that word would be pleasure.… — Wendy Lesser Copy Share Image
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