The only palliative is to keep the clean sea breeze of the centuries blowing through our minds, and this can be done… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I love books, by the way, way more than movies. Movies tell you what to think. A good book lets you choose… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
“I felt a mixture of hallowness at seeing the end of a world, and satisfaction at getting to witness that world's completion.” — singNsong Copy Share Image
When you pick up a script and you can't stop reading it because it's a real page-turner, that's a good sign. — Karl Urban Copy Share Image
Maybe reading was just a way to make her feel less alone, to keep her company. When you read something you are… — Helen Humphreys Copy Share Image
Reading, for me, is like this: consumptive, pleasing, calming, as much as edifying. It's how I feel after a good dinner. That's… — Tara Bray Smith 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
My alma mater is the Chicago Public Library. I got what little educational foundation I got in the third-floor reading room, under… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
“Finally, bookshelves can be a terrifying place for debut writers, especially those who are marginalized. Writers who are queer, trans, BIPOC, disabled,… — Frances White Copy Share Image
I once said to someone when I was playing Lady Macbeth and they said: "That's tricky, emotionally, what do you do about… — Judi Dench Copy Share Image
“Reading history is good for all of us. If you know history, you know that there is no such thing as a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Hey, great idea: if you have kids, give your partner reading vouchers next Christmas. Each voucher entitles the bearer to two hours'… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
All readers come to fiction as willing accomplices to your lies. Such is the basic goodwill contract made the moment we pick… — Steve Almond Copy Share Image
“What did they want from it? Lechery, smut, confirmation of their worst suspicions. But perhaps some of them wanted, despite themselves, to… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
As sheer casual reading matter, I still find the English dictionary the most interesting book in our language. — Albert J. Nock Copy Share Image
“Storytellers are master manipulators transforming non-reality (grounded in reality) into vicarious experience.” — Kevin Focke Copy Share Image
I've just finished reading some of my early papers, and you know, when I'd finished I said to myself, 'Rutherford, my boy,… — Ernest Rutherford Copy Share Image
...And another item from the growing file of people who voluntarily wear dunce caps... You'll be talking cordially to someone and make… — Tim Dorsey Copy Share Image
Those mutually opposed manifestos are written with the same eloquence, they breathe the same virtuous indignation, and one is just as sincere… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
My favorite book is 'Million-Dollar Throw.' It's about football, which is one of the main things I like watching and reading about. — Bradley Steven Perry Copy Share Image
Grammar is what gives sense to language .... sentences make words yield up their meaning. Sentences actively create sense in language. And… — David Crystal Copy Share Image
Believers are often encouraged to spend some time each day alone praying and reading the Bible. This is a good thing, modeled… — Kenneth Boa Copy Share Image
It's important to read because it's really good for your vocabulary. It's really good for your imagination. I enjoy reading because I… — Emma Watson Copy Share Image
E-books are great for instant gratification - you see a review somewhere of a book that interests you, and you can start… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I see ghosts everywhere, and that is partially a function of my being incredibly near-sighted and reading way too late into the… — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
The Christians think I am making a mistake by not trying the New Testament and meeting Jesus. The Jews tend to think… — David Plotz Copy Share Image
“She had always suffered from a vague restlessness, a longing for adventure that she told herself severely was the result of reading… — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
I was under twenty when I deliberately put it to myself one night after good conversation that there are moments when we… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
Even the Quran, which Sufis respect as the direct speech of God, lacks the capacity to shed light upon God’s essence. As… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
Sometimes people won't even finish a piece that you wrote, because they've already decided what it is that you want to say,… — Louis Menand Copy Share Image
Books take their place according to their specific gravity as surely as potatoes in a tub. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
My dad is a Jack Nicholson lookalike and a frustrated performer, my mother's into reading and poetry. I suppose the thing I… — Michael Sheen Copy Share Image
I go back and forth between input phases where I'm reading a lot or trying to get out and explore the world… — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
I admit my reading time is limited because I can write in the situations and places where people usually read. But reading… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
If there was no Bible, it would be no matter whether you could read or not. Reading other books would do you… — Jupiter Hammon Copy Share Image
In fourth grade I had a high school reading level, but I didn't want to go to school and I didn't feel… — Freddie Prinze Copy Share Image
