Reading is the scourge of childhood because, in a sense, it creates adulthood. — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“Dinner-parties bore us because our imagination is absent, and reading interests us because it is keeping us company.” — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
When I have some time, I enjoy watching movies, also trying to cultivate habit of reading. — Gautam Rode Copy Share Image
The thing I noticed about Jack was when we did a reading of the script, just to warm up. — Amanda Peet Copy Share Image
Reading is at the center of our lives. The library is our brain. Without the library, you have no civilization. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
A great library is one nobody notices because it is always there, and always has what people need. — Vicki Myron Copy Share Image
If you read to your kids you'll make readers out of them, partly because they'll associate reading with good parent time. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Reading is one of the greatest forms of magic available to us on the planet. — Jim James Copy Share Image
At Juilliard, suddenly I was reading these great plays that could articulate the ways I was feeling in the Marine Corps, and… — Adam Driver Copy Share Image
Reading will put you into the minds and hearts of others. It might help you understand why other people do what they… — Scott Simon Copy Share Image
“Each book was like an underwater cave, and when I rose again to the surface, I was pale and grumpy, resentful of… — Mary Stewart Atwell Copy Share Image
'Just looking at pictures' used to be considered cheating. No longer. The graphic novel is booming. Comics, heavily illustrated texts, books with… — Jon Scieszka Copy Share Image
I love reading people. I really enjoy watching, observing, and being able to figure out a person, the reason they wore that… — Rihanna Copy Share Image
The public schools I attended were dominated by athletics and rarely inspiring intellectually, but I enjoyed a small circle of interesting friends… — Harold E. Varmus Copy Share Image
“You know what pulp is, Mr. Tallis? It's the flesh of a luscious fruit, mashed down into an incredible, half liquid richness.… — Mike Carey & Peter Gross Copy Share Image
It is by no means certain that we advance our philosophical quest by reading Plato or Aristotle. It may increase our knowledge… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
“When the Day of Judgment dawns and the great conquerers and lawyers and statesmen come to receive their rewards -- their crowns,… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
But re-reading Voss also demonstrates again that although White wasn't 'a nice man', and indeed was—perhaps rightly—scathingly dismissive of my and other… — Thomas Keneally Copy Share Image
“Lin Yutang also believed that reading is an art. One chapter of the Importance of Living is devoted to "the Art of… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no young readers and writers, there will… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
We do not read in order to turn great works of fiction into simplistic replicas of our own realities, we read for… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
Kindle, isn’t it?” the waitress asked. “I got one for Christmas, and I love it. I’m reading my way through all of… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
READING, n. The general body of what one reads. In our country it consists, as a rule, of Indiana novels, short stories… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
I tend to write three to four hours a day, depending - oftentimes very late at night. When I write on Twitter,… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
