“The most important thing about reading is not the level of sophistication of the books on your shelf. There is no prerequisite… — Lauren Leto Copy Share Image
Reading is everything. Reading makes me feel like I've accomplished something, learned something, become a better person. Reading makes me smarter. Reading… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
With a library you are free, not confined by temporary political climates. It is the most democratic of institutions because no one… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
It took a lot to understand that the interest in both writing a story and reading it is not in the objective… — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
It cannot be that the people should grow in grace unless they give themselves to reading. A reading people will always be… — John Wesley Copy Share Image
When I'm not writing music, I'm playing guitar, or reading philosophy. So all I have left is just an hour or two… — Richard Pinhas Copy Share Image
“Eisenhower accepted and used the power of television. Stevenson felt obliged to critique it. In an article for Fortune magazine published shortly… — Scott Farris Copy Share Image
The golden line is drawn between winter and summer. Behind all is blackness and darkness and dissolution. Before is hope, and soft… — Leigh Hunt Copy Share Image
Over the past year I'vediscovered if you keep on giving and giving, you end up losing yourself. I think that learning to… — Brittany Murphy Copy Share Image
I've always been more natural at doing hosting things: reading teleprompters, taking direction and asking questions... I'm actually able to perform a… — Vinny Guadagnino Copy Share Image
“Never before had I felt trapped, seduced, and caught up in a story,' Clara explained, 'the way I did with that book.… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
I'm reading a book about Romaine Brooks, a wonderful painter from early in the last century. — Lawrence Ferlinghetti Copy Share Image
When men are growing up and they're reading about Batman, Spiderman, Superman ... those are not fantasies ... they're options. — Jerry Seinfeld Copy Share Image
“That life can be a rich place, comprised of the highbrow and the lowdown, the casual and the ambitious, private reading and… — Roger Sutton Copy Share Image
Many years later I was told that the great specialist had admitted to friends of his that he had altered his treatment… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
I will now teach my son Increase (and others of my children) the way of raising a lesson out of every verse… — Cotton Mather 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
“There's a difference between preferring books to parties and preferring sixteen cats to seeing the light of day.” — Lauren Morrill Copy Share Image
There is a certain amount you can learn from reading, but you also need to see and experience things. — James Forman, Jr Copy Share Image
A panoramic vision of Bob Dylan, his music, his shifting place in American culture, from multiple angles. In fact, reading Sean Wilentz's… — Martin Scorsese Copy Share Image
“I work backwards with the ending in mind as I create art, stories, poems and books. Always in a process of becoming.” — Jill Telford Copy Share Image
Farewell all relations and friends in Christ; farewell acquaintances and all earthly enjoyments; farewell reading and preaching, praying and believing, wanderings, reproaches,… — Donald Cargill Copy Share Image
This book will take you two days to read. Did you even see the cover? It’s mostly pink. If you’re reading this… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
We measure the success of schools not by the kinds of human beings they promote but by whatever increases in reading scores… — Kenneth Keniston Copy Share Image
The tablet is not mainstream. Reading off the screen is not mainstream. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Reading and writing, arithmetic and grammar do not constitute education, any more than a knife, fork and spoon constitute a dinner. — John Lubbock Copy Share Image
I have read more about Oprah Winfrey’s ass than I have about the rise of China as an economic superpower. I fear… — Caitlin Moran Copy Share Image
[A formula for answering controversial letters -- without even reading the letters:] Dear Sir (or Madame): You may be right. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“I would probably have to say that reading fiction — those stories fill the space that other people might use religious stories… — Tom Perrotta Copy Share Image
Americans reading the paper, listening to the news every single day, and all you hear is things are getting worse and worse.… — Howard Schultz Copy Share Image