For those who are going to learn from books, learning the art of reading would seem to be indispensable. — Robert M. Hutchins Copy Share Image
In New York, you are forced into having very public lives and observing all types of people, what they sound like, what… — Nick Kroll Copy Share Image
Nothing will turn you into a Civil War buff like five years of reading. Some of the letters that people wrote from… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
When you're reading, you're not where you are; you're in the book. By the same token, I can write anywhere. — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
You don't have to signal a social conscience by looking like a frump. Lace knickers won't hasten the holocaust, you can ban… — Elizabeth Bibesco Copy Share Image
The problem in our country isn't with books being banned, but with people no longer reading. Look at the magazines, the newspapers… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
How important my books are or anybody's books are, I don't know. I don't think they are terribly important I think that… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I pity those who have no taste for reading. — Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne 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
The books weren't exactly Linnet's general reading fare, but a desperate woman will read anything. — Eloisa James Copy Share Image
Everybody thought that screen time was bad for vision. Well, it happens that spending a lot of time reading on a computer… — Daphne Bavelier Copy Share Image
Colin emphatically pushed the book cover shut when he finished reading. "Did you like it?" His dad asked. "Yup," Colin said. He… — John Green Copy Share Image
I regarded as quite useless the reading of large treatises of pure analysis: too large a number of methods pass at once… — Joseph-Louis Lagrange Copy Share Image
I'm a critic. That means you are a writer. So, yes, you have to make yourself an authority on whatever subject it's… — Gary Giddins Copy Share Image
The doctrine of the Second Coming teaches us that we do not and cannot know when the world drama will end. The… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The first reading of a Will, where a person dies worth anything considerable, generally affords a true test of the relations' love… — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
It was really John's [Musker] idea to begin with to tell a story set in the world of the South Pacific, Polynesia.… — Ron Clements Copy Share Image
I doubt if I shall ever have time to read the book again -- there are too many new ones coming out… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you're reading a book that I've written in the first person, without named characters, you will periodically perhaps as a reader… — Douglas A. Martin Copy Share Image
“A fortress built long ago, Walls made timeless by historic glory. The small girl in the boat slows, To listen to its… — Rachel Lewis Copy Share Image
One of the amusements of idleness is reading without the fatigue of close attention; and the world therefore swarms with writers whose… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Reading has always been a major part of my life. It has broadened my world and taken me to places I would… — Phyllis A. Whitney Copy Share Image
“To her, writing is making stock and reading is sipping broth, but only the spoken word is the full roasted chicken.” — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“You're such a bookworm," Fenn said, shaking his head as he counted the books in my hand. "No," I corrected "I just… — Candace Knoebel Copy Share Image