In New York I'd go to the movies three or four times a week. Here I've upped it to six or seven,… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
I was very happy and honored to create the Professor Garfield Foundation with Ball State to make reading fun. — Jim Davis Copy Share Image
To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful... — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
I do love Shirley Jackson, but I don't deserve to be named in connection with her. I remember reading 'The Haunting of… — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
The thing I found when I was actually reading through the Quran is that Christianity - that is a very easy switch… — Madison Cawthorn Copy Share Image
And most of all, books. They were, in and of themselves, reasons to stay alive. Every book written is the product of… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
Running a marathon is just like reading a good book. After a while you're just not conscious of the physical act of… — Frank Shorter Copy Share Image
“Reading," he says, "is always this: there is a thing that is there, a thing made of writing, a solid material object,… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“Read. Everything you can get your hands on. Read until words become your friends. Them when you need to find one, they… — Karen Witemeyer Copy Share Image
“All that mankind has done, thought, gained, or been; it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.” — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
It was the books I started reading. It was the music I started listening to. It was the television I started watching.… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
I found working in the lab is so completely different than reading a textbook about it. You know, you're planning strategies; you're… — Eric Kandel Copy Share Image
Twenty-nine years ago, I came to faith in Christ after a gentleman from the Gideon's International gave me a free copy of… — Craig Groeschel Copy Share Image
One of the great joys in life is reading, yet it's the main thing people say they don't have time to do. — Dana Perino Copy Share Image
“You must go to the school or to the books or on the field because knowledge doesn't come to you, you must… — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
Reading Stephen King's book, On Writing, was like being cornered and forced to have a long, drawn out mental enema. — Mary Garden Copy Share Image
I really think that reading a whole script is kind of prying and neurotic, don't you? — Tom Baker Copy Share Image
I remember reading [ Studs Terkel's] "Working" when it first came out and just finding that very powerful. I was going into… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
As I started reading about it, I saw that at the beginning of the 19th century, outside of New England - which… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
Theres nothing like reading about a world that feels dead to throw your own beautiful, colorful life into sharp relief. — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
“Last reason for reading horror: it’s a rehearsal for death. It’s a way to get ready. People say there’s nothing sure but… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Why is any one book different from any other book? They are different, A.J. decides, because they are. We have to look… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
“Spiritual life is not mystic; when you decide to work with God, you have stepped to mystery, God can intervene at any… — Patience Johnson Copy Share Image
Becoming a parent changed my life drastically and left me little time for leisure reading. — Ainsley Earhardt Copy Share Image
“...she judged frivolous reading to be as unhealthy as sweets and pastries...” — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
I would not read the proof of one of my books for any fair & reasonable sum whatever, if I could get… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
By reading a man does, as it were, antedate his life, and make himself contemporary with the ages past; and this way… — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
Some people spend their entire lives reading but never get beyond reading the words on the page, they don't understand that the… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
“If you like fantasy and you want to be the next Tolkien, don’t read big Tolkienesque fantasies — Tolkien didn’t read big… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
And I believe that public broadcasting has an important trust with the American people, it's an intimate medium of television, and that… — Margaret Spellings Copy Share Image
When it came time to be a professional rapper, I wouldn't sign anything without reading it. There was no way I was… — Queen Latifah Copy Share Image
“A newspaper is an oversized book with adverts and an expiry date.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
I took a class in college... I think we were reading some short Chekhov plays, and I knew the first day of… — Jeffrey Wright Copy Share Image
“I am completely unflustered by whichever medium people choose to read my words. I'm just delighted they're reading them at all!” — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
As soon as my brain starts working on reading a book, my dreams get a little more exciting, and music comes a… — Yung Lean Copy Share Image
“Do you know why books such as this are so important? Because they have quality. And what does the word quality mean?… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I think movies do play a valuable role in turning people on to the act of reading. I think that phenomenon just… — Gary Ross Copy Share Image
Lots of kids, including my son, have trouble making the leap from reading words or a few sentences in picture books to… — Rhea Perlman Copy Share Image
![“I remember reading [ Studs Terkel's] "Working" when it first came out and just finding that very powerful. I was going into community organizing. What stuck was to reveal the sacredness of ordinary people's lives. That everybody has a story. And I think Studs is terrific at drawing out that…” quote by Barack Obama](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/8d7/barack-obama-17_community_i-remember-reading-studs-terkel-s-workin_3056170.jpg)
