Rebecca Mead's My Life in Middlemarch is a wise, humane, and delightful study of what some regard as the best novel in… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
Spoilers are cowardly. They're just people who want to anesthetize themselves against the tension and the experience that the director and the… — Simon Pegg Copy Share Image
My mother read secondarily for information; she sank as a hedonist into novels. She read Dickens in the spirit in which she… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
“Daydreaming does not enjoy tremendous prestige in our culture, which tends to regard it as unproductive thought. Writers perhaps appreciate its importance… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“I find myself anticipating a new kind of storyteller, one who is half hacker, half bard.” — Janet H. Murray Copy Share Image
“But a man may then imagine in your work what he pleases, what you never meant!" Not what he pleases, but what… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
“Potential literature is what we might call language in the hands of a crafty reader, the way potential music is sound to… — Daniel Levin Becker Copy Share Image
I believe that reading and writing are the most nourishing forms of meditation anyone has so far found. By reading the writings… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
That's one of the many things about having the bookstore that I adore. I can walk into the store and say to… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
I turned down the first script offered to me, and the second. I lay on my back one day under an umbrella,… — Conrad Veidt Copy Share Image
There are quite a number of people in the reading-room; but one is not aware of them. They are inside the books.… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Read as much as you possibly can. Nothing will help you as much as reading and you'll go through a phase where… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
“I hadn't had a chance to read an entire novel in weeks. Whatever the others might say about politics, civil war, and… — Alyxandra Harvey Copy Share Image
The highest earthly enjoyments are but a shadow of the joy I find in reading God's Word. — Lady Jane Grey Copy Share Image
As hardly anything can accidentally touch the soft clay without stamping its mark on it, so hardly any reading can interest a… — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
“study: The reading of books or examination of other materials to gain knowledge. Page 5.” — Sean Clouden Copy Share Image
Reading and sauntering and lounging and dosing, which I call thinking, is my supreme Happiness. — David Hume Copy Share Image
You can't be real," Delilah murmurs. "Says who?" I ask. "Did you really think that a story exists only when you're reading… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I keep a quotes journal - of every sentence that I've wanted to remember from my reading of the past 30 years. — Richard Powers Copy Share Image
To me, the process of writing is just reading what I've written and - like running your hand over one of those… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Here, my dear Lucy, hide these books. Quick, quick! Fling "Peregrine Pickle" under the toilette -throw "Roderick Random" into the closet -put… — Richard Brinsley Sheridan Copy Share Image
In spite of being so absorbed in comics when I was in primary school, for whatever reason, I stopped reading them that… — Akira Toriyama Copy Share Image
I highly recommend reading the book 'Confessions Of A Video Vixen.' — Katherine Ryan Copy Share Image
“Readers don't want to read about somebody else having powerful emotions. . . . Readers want to become somebody else for a… — Randy Ingermanson Copy Share Image
Why Bother Reading Books? We Have EMINEM He Can Read a Whole Story In 4 Minutes. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A book you finish reading is not the same book it was before you read it. — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
Now what is food for the inner man? Not prayer, but the Word of God; and here again, not the simple reading… — George Muller Copy Share Image
“principles of reading: reduce articles to their essence, read and write in the same day, subscribe to journals, and learn to skim.” — Wendy Laura Belcher Copy Share Image
A bleak, black book, it engenders awe and despair. I have read it in its entirety 4 1/2 times, each time finding… — Michael Silverblatt Copy Share Image
The great sickness and the grievous evil consist in this: that all the things that man finds written in books, he presumes… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
“She‘d never taken much interest in reading. She read, of course, as one did, but liking books was something she left to… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
“He enjoyed reading and writing. He liked words. Words didn't shout or make loud noises, which pretty much defined the rest of… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Computers allow us to squeeze the most out of everything, whether it's Google looking up things, so I guess that tends to… — Buzz Aldrin Copy Share Image
After reading about the Al Ain Oasis by ECWC, I became curious about cultivating dates, and browsed about the web a bit,… — Caterina Fake Copy Share Image
“I was born with a reading list that I will never finish. The person who deserves that most pity is a lonely… — Maude Casey Copy Share Image
Don't try to anticipate an ideal reader - or any reader. He/she might exist - but is reading someone else. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
I read so many scripts, that I don't do that much leisurely reading of books. — Morris Chestnut Copy Share Image
I loved reading when I was young. I was just completely taken by stories. And I remember taking that into English literature… — Chiwetel Ejiofor Copy Share Image
“Whatever that place is, I don't much care -- not unless a book has happened there.” — Joyce Rachelle Copy Share Image
