The purpose of a writer is to be read, and the criticism which would destroy the power of pleasing must be blown… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
One always has a better book in one's mind than one can manage to get onto paper. — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
Every reader exists to ensure for a certain book a modest immortality. Reading is, in this sense, a ritual of rebirth. — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
I prefer writing in the mornings, so to that extent I have a routine. I do reading and other things in the… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
“Maybe some people were destined to be alone. But, I reminded myself, you're never alone if you read.” — Rebecca Raisin Copy Share Image
Being lost in books has to be one of the best feelings it's like you can escape reality and live in your… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have a lot of trouble with scripts. I have a lot of trouble imagining things while I'm reading them. — Christopher Walken Copy Share Image
I think, because I've been working for a while, I've been working since I was ten, I had the fortune of reading… — Ellen Page Copy Share Image
“Books become my refuge. Reading keeps me hopeful. I fall in love with small poems, the shorter the better- haiku from Japan,… — Margarita Engle Copy Share Image
From forty years' experience of the wretched guess-work of the newspapers of what is not done in open daylight, and of their… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Study has been for me the sovereign remedy against all the disappointments of life. I have never known any trouble that an… — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
Reading books might itself be a bit weird, but obviously okay, since books were part of school, and doing well in school… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
If you actually do cold readings, it's very close to how people actually talk, because you're experiencing these thoughts anew every moment,… — Patton Oswalt Copy Share Image
One reason I've never been a fan of graphic novels is because a central aspect of literature for me has always been… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
I must confess that I'm not a great reader. At the moment I'm reading my son's 'Stig of the Dump' by Clive… — Sophie Thompson Copy Share Image
The first comic I can remember ever reading was a 'Fantastic Four' issue that my dad bought out of the drugstore once.… — Charles Soule Copy Share Image
“I think that there have been displays of an impoverished reading of the book. I get the distinct feeling at times that… — Joshua Ferris Copy Share Image
At about the age of seven … I wrote exactly the kinds of stories I was reading: All my characters were white… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
“In travelling where novelties of all kinds press in upon us, mental food is often supplied so rapidly from without that there… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
In 1966 Rolf Edberg wrote "This is mankind's home", "in the narrow borderland between the deathly heat beneath our feet and the… — Margot Wallstrom Copy Share Image
It might be helping to explore a story visually by going to see a museum exhibit that's relevant to something that somebody's… — Emma Walton Hamilton Copy Share Image
It is no more necessary that a man should remember the different dinners and suppers which have made him healthy, than the… — Sydney Smith Copy Share Image
I can't predict how reading habits will change. But I will say that the greatest loss is the paper archive - no… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
