“For all I know, writing comes out of a superior devotion to reading.” — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
For thee I dim these eye and stuff this head With all such reading as was never read. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
“You know your book is good when you have to put it down just so you can breathe.” — Love The Stacks Bookstore Copy Share Image
A theologian is born by living, nay dying and being damned, not by thinking, reading, or speculating. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
I read most often in bed as part of my attempted sleep ritual. But I spend a lot of time reading on… — Luis Alberto Urrea Copy Share Image
The second I learned to read in first grade, when I was 5, I preferred it to life. And I still do. — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
“We encounter great souls, who lived in historical times, in ancient books.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
“Anyaele Sam Chiyson Leadership Law of Reproduction: Distinguished leaders impress, inspire and invest in other leaders.” — Anyaele Sam Chiyson Copy Share Image
Before I went to bed, I sat up till 2 a-clock in my chamber, reading of Mr. Hooke's Microscopical Observations, the most… — Samuel Pepys Copy Share Image
I never remain passive in the process of reading: while I read I am engaged in a constant creative activity, which leads… — Nikolai Berdyaev Copy Share Image
I was very lucky to have a father who read to us when we were children. And he didn't just read books… — Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall Copy Share Image
My mother brought us to the library every week, and I read a lot. That's what kept me company. I went from… — Julianne Moore Copy Share Image
[I] am reading No Ordinary Joes. Should have had a medical checkup before I started it. Colton makes us fall in love… — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
Whenever I begin reading a new book, I am embarking on a new, uncharted journey with an unmarked destination. I never know… — Nancy Pearl Copy Share Image
What I read: while I'm writing, I tend to go off reading fiction for relaxation - especially the challenging stuff. It's too… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
“I really enjoyed hearing the likesand dislikesof my readers at book clubs as well as meeting new fans at the book signing… — J. Alexander Greenwood Copy Share Image
In reading we must become creators. Once the child has learned to read alone, and can pick up a book without illustrations,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Have you ever rightly considered what the mere ability to read means? That it is the key which admits us to the… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
It's so fun to be on a show where we're all on our toes, all the time. We're constantly texting each other… — Devin Kelley Copy Share Image
One of the more depressing things about reading your fiction 25 years later, or 10 years later, is you realize the only… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
Reading was my hobby, my sport and my activity of choice. It was the prime pleasure of my days, an unfailing escape… — Cynthia Voigt Copy Share Image
“Victor of course never failed to fire a monster joint on these underground missions. And there he would sit reading. He liked… — Sunil Yapa Copy Share Image
“In 1938, Louise Rosenblatt introduced reader response theory or the transactional view of reading. She asserted that what the reader brings to… — Carl M. Tomlinson Copy Share Image
Henceforth it will be the task of this Sacred Congregation not only to examine carefully the books denounced to it, to prohibit… — Pope Pius XII Copy Share Image