Writing is 90 percent procrastination: reading magazines, eating cereal out of the box, watching infomercials. — Paul Rudnick Copy Share Image
The best effect of any book is that it excites the reader to self activity. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
This must be a gift book. That is to say a book, which you wouldn't take on any other terms. — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
“You know what it's like to *lose* yourself in a story. We have brother and sister *souls*.” — Mike Carey Copy Share Image
“What novels did you read when you were young, dear? I'm convinced it all turns on that.” — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
“But I wasn't a well-read bookworm; I was just a dumb whore in the right library.” — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“I roused myself from the book which I was dreaming over rather than reading,” — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
The whole of the day should not be daytime; there should be one hour, if not more, which the day did not… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I've always been, like, a book-smart person; I'm very into language and reading, and that really lends itself to comedy, because you… — Janelle James Copy Share Image
I get motivation about reading about the Founding Fathers and just how much they accomplished and at such young ages in their… — Nick Bosa Copy Share Image
“At any rate, during the few hours when the depressive state itself eased off long enough to permit the luxury of concentration,… — William Styron Copy Share Image
I kind of stumbled into this. I used to do karate and then I started reading muscle magazines. Eventually, I began training… — Dorian Yates Copy Share Image
“Suddenly the reader's eyes were filled with tears, and a loving voice whispered in his ear: -Why are you crying if everything… — Ángel González Copy Share Image
My dad is a retired Shakespeare professor, my mother a retired classicist. Suffice to say I grew up in a house full… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
I didn’t want to tell the story of myself, but someone I called myself. If you read yourself as fiction, it’s rather… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Here's the problem: we are living in a time when the act of reading is changing. The nature of a reader's attention… — Ayad Akhtar Copy Share Image
“Look at your daughter,' she whispered. 'As brave as...as.." She wanted to compare Meggie to a hero in some story but all… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
You can make lots of mistakes, but if you give children avenues for creativity and joy, they will have resources to carry… — Charlotte Sophia Kasl Copy Share Image
But, in the end, the books that surround me are the books that made me, through my reading (and misreading) of them;… — Ramona Koval Copy Share Image
“I went on happily reading well into the night, when no one ventured on to the decks of the Donizetti, except for… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
i love playing and chatting with children...feeding and putting them to bed with a little story, and being away from the family… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Reading is at the threshold of spiritual life; it can introduce us to it; it does not constitute it. There are, however,… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
I came up in the theater, and I learned pretty quickly that reading a review, whether it's good or bad, can strangely… — Dallas Roberts Copy Share Image
I've read about 80 books a year for the past 50 years. I come from cultural breeding. I don't have a cellphone.… — Vaclav Smil Copy Share Image
