In reading, you become these characters that are different from you. — Torrey Peters Copy Share Image
Whatever education I got was from experience and reading. But I also realize I wouldn't pass my friend's sixth-grade class. — Michelle Williams Copy Share Image
I'm a book girl--I love all the stories the world has to offer. No matter the book, I will taste it and… — Mizuki Nomura Copy Share Image
Reading yields a wish to write, I think, except if the reading is dull and uninspiring. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
“Reading a book is an intellectual exercise, which stimulates thought, questions,” — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I began reading in French. I didn't read in English until high school. — Laila Lalami Copy Share Image
To describe my scarce leisure time in today's terms, I always default to reading. — Jimmy Buffett Copy Share Image
“I regained my soul through literature after those times I'd lost it to wild-eyed gypsy girls on the European streets.” — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
Nothing replaces being in the same room, face-to-face, breathing the same air and reading and feeling each other's micro-expressions. — Peter Guber Copy Share Image
I can definitely write a book. Growing up, I really learned that. The stuff I was reading were urban books and I… — Rod Wave Copy Share Image
“What happens when we start believing the world and what is important in it are only these reactions and prejudices? What kind… — Sergio Troncoso Copy Share Image
“the cheapest, most pleasurable way for a country of strangers to get to know each other and the rest of the world… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
We Americans are mildly interested, of course, in reading about the discovery of radium by Madame Curie, but what we really yearn… — Frank Crowninshield Copy Share Image
One rainy Sunday when I was in the third grade, I picked up a book to look at the pictures and discovered… — Beverly Cleary Copy Share Image
It amazes me that filmmakers will still film, and audiences will still watch, relationships so bankrupt of human feeling that the characters… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
I think the idea of signing on to a sort of very commercial show and a show that is as expansive as… — Jonathan Bailey Copy Share Image
“Sundays when they could come, my mother would bring a piece of cake and some cookies from the bakery. Of course, the… — Captain Hank Bracker, "Seawater One Copy Share Image
It's been very jarring for me to stand in public and read about myself and my daughter and her father. I feel… — Jill Talbot Copy Share Image
History is a strange experience. The world is quite small now; but history is large and deep. Sometimes you can go much… — Gilbert Highet Copy Share Image
When we want a book exactly like the one we just finished reading, what we really want is to recreate that pleasurable… — Nancy Pearl Copy Share Image
One morning I was reading the story of Jesus' feeding of the five thousand. The disciples could find only five loaves of… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
I insist on a lot of time being spent, almost every day, to just sit and think. That is very uncommon in… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
“If you read a story that really involves you, your body will tell you that you are living through the experience. You… — Joseph Gold Copy Share Image
While reading writers of great formulatory power — Henry James, Santayana, Proust — I find I can scarcely get through a page… — Joseph Epstein Copy Share Image
