I have 60 years of reading to draw upon: naval memoirs, dispatches, the Naval Chronicles, family letters. — Patrick O'Brian Copy Share Image
Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love… — John Green Copy Share Image
I love mystery novels... I love seeing the dramas played out in academic departments, particularly English departments. I started reading these when… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
It is to be deeply regretted that the clergymen would oppose an effort to teach the people the Bible truths; nevertheless, we… — Joseph Franklin Rutherford Copy Share Image
“I'd decided to establish a new rule for myself: read for half an hour an evening, no matter what.” — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
“I like the sound of words, but I don't ever really expect my slow, slanted impression of the world to change by… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
“Reading is a full contact sport; we crash up against the wave of words with all of our intellectual, imaginative, and emotional… — Thomas C. Foster Copy Share Image
“I intend to put up with nothing that I can put down." [ Letter to J. Beauchamp Jones , August 8, 1839]” — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
Easy reading is damn hard writing. But if it's right, it's easy. It's the other way round, too. If it's slovenly written,… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls. What is… — John Berger Copy Share Image
The Internet will not become a money machine until the banking industry figures out how to transfer money for free so you… — Erik Naggum Copy Share Image
Every time there's a revolution, it comes from somebody reading a book about revolution. David Walker wrote a book and Nat Turner… — Mike Tyson Copy Share Image
Elrond's house was perfect, whether you liked food or sleep or story-telling or singing (or reading), or just sitting and thinking best,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It happens, therefore, that readers of the book, or of any other book built about a central concept, fall into three mutually… — Cassius Jackson Keyser Copy Share Image
Both of my parents have a really sharp eye for reading people through their homes. Reading people through the kind of person… — Julio Torres Copy Share Image
“We should affirm the great value of reading just for the fun of it. . . . In my experience, Christians are… — Alan Jacobs Copy Share Image
You have to remember that it is impossible to commit a crime while reading a book. — John Waters Copy Share Image
Sunday night, I reread The Catcher in the Rye until I felt tired enough to fall asleep. Only I never got tired… — Kami Garcia Copy Share Image
I boast of being the only man in London who has been bombed off a lavatory seat while reading Jane Austen. She… — Kingsley Martin Copy Share Image
I had a very mixed kind of childhood reading. I read the childhood classics like 'Robinson Crusoe,' 'Alice in Wonderland,' 'Chums Annual.'… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
Your teacher cannot bridge the gap between what you know and what you want to know. For his words to ‘educate' you,… — Grace Llewellyn Copy Share Image
Perhaps it is partly that we need to love books ourselves as parents, grandparents and teachers in order to pass on that… — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
I don't necessarily think I look to books for ideas, but sometimes when I'm in the process of reading a great book,… — Dan Mangan Copy Share Image
I was just working on music and reading. It was relaxing. I would just stay up so late for no reason because… — Jack Tatum Copy Share Image
“Yet he had expended much of an inquisitive nature upon random reading. By the sheer force of indiscriminate voracity, he had gleaned… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
The only thing worse than not reading a book in the last ninety days is not reading a book in the last… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
“Has it ever struck you as odd, or unfortunate, that today, when the proportion of literacy is higher than it has ever… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
When I wake up, I'm like, 'I gotta go to Whole Foods.' I'm constantly reading cookbooks; I bring hardcover cookbooks with me… — Chrissy Teigen Copy Share Image
Grinning is something you do when you are entertained in some way, such as reading a good book or watching someone you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I wrote for many years without showing my writing to anyone, because I was constantly comparing it to what I was reading.… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
I didn't feel like reading that night, so I went downstairs and watched a half-hour long commercial that advertised an exercise machine.… — Stephen Chbosky Copy Share Image
Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs,… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
When you read a novel, you know what to expect because you've been reading novels for a long time. — Alejandro Zambra Copy Share Image
I am 82 years old. I imagine that I will keep on writing as long as anyone wants to keep reading. — Tony Hillerman Copy Share Image
Learning from books is so empowering - whether it be from history, a novel or a poem. When you come away from… — Lisa Lucas Copy Share Image
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