“I would hate to die for a lot of reasons. But mostly because of all the books I haven't yet read.” — Peg Lynch Copy Share Image
A novelist has two lives-- a reading and writing life, and a lived life. he or she cannot be understood at all… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
“You've got the look of a girl who's no stranger to the page. I can tell. You've got words in your soul.” — Jay Kristoff Copy Share Image
The odd thing about people who had many books was how they always wanted more. — Patricia A. McKillip Copy Share Image
It's like reading a book about a life that you will never occupy, but that's the beauty of being transported. — Sarah Jessica Parker Copy Share Image
I would never discredit reading the Scriptures, but it is important to meditate on it. — Charles Stanley Copy Share Image
Reading enables us to see with the keenest eyes, to hear with the finest ears, and listen to the sweetest voices of… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
“reading is the equivallent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with ones own” — Arthur Sch Copy Share Image
Today's sensitive male has learned to share in open frank discussions about relationships like, "Where the hell did you get a crazy… — Lewis Grizzard Copy Share Image
The only way to build a church, if you have a Bible church, is to preach out of the Bible, teach out… — Lester Roloff Copy Share Image
“Her father had never bothered with books, but when his daughter sat reading the newspaper at the age of five he wasn’t… — Fredrik Backman Copy Share Image
I don't want learning, or dignity, or respectability. I want this music, and this dawn, and the warmth of your cheek against… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Both reading and writing are experiences--lifelong-- in the course of which we who encounter words used in certain ways are persuaded by… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
Interest is never enough. If it doesn't haunt you, you'll never write it well. What haunts and obsesses you may, with luck… — Steven Heighton Copy Share Image
Brilliant. . . . Marriage Confidential is both laugh-out-loud funny and gasp-out-loud shocking, and nothing less than a Feminine Mystique for our… — Debby Applegate Copy Share Image
But the feeling I have, you know, is that I'll never come close to reading all, or even a thousandth- a billionth-… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
“The real measure of 'truth' in any novel is not whether the characters, places and events portrayed exist beyond the pages of… — Graeme Macrae Burnet Copy Share Image
The written word, obviously, is very inward, and when we're reading, we're thinking. It's a sort of spiritual, meditative activity. When we're… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
“That brings me to the real reason for the title: Where does that which happens during reading a book take place? (...)… — Michael Ende Copy Share Image
“That's what I love about reading: one tiny thing will interest you in a book, and that tiny thing will lead you… — Mary Ann Shaffer Copy Share Image
If I do not seem to be mentioning anything I’ve read lately, it is because I am in one of those periods… — Edward Gorey Copy Share Image
I don't want to exaggerate; having as many African American men as we've had in the criminal-justice system, and the amount of… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Sometimes the sight of someone in one faith wrestling with that faith can empower you to wrestle with another faith. For me,… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
“Book Bans Are Dumb (Sonnet 1587) Book bans are dumb, It makes the mind numb. If banning books were justice, Middle ages… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
