Reading books about enlightenment does not make you enlightened at all. You have to meditate yourself. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Nothing new that is really interesting comes without collaboration — James D. Watson Copy Share Image
I keep a quotes journal - of every sentence that I've wanted to remember from my reading of the past 30 years. — Richard Powers Copy Share Image
If you like reading, you are allowed to like to dance and to like to sing and to like to act. — Marley Dias Copy Share Image
My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity. — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
“With words at your disposal, you can see more clearly. Finding the words is another step in learning to see.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Many only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people. — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
English should be our official language. Reading and speaking English are requirements to become a citizen. — Ernest Istook Copy Share Image
I don't believe in writing at night because it comes too easily. When I read it in the morning it's not good.… — Gunter Grass Copy Share Image
I write to get myself writing. That and read Wallace Stevens' "An Ordinary Evening in New Haven" for the umpteenth time. Certain… — Dan Chiasson Copy Share Image
More and more books are published every year. If people were not reading them, they wouldn't be published. We are in a… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I grew up reading comic books, pulp books, mystery and science fiction and fantasy. I'm a geek; I make no pretensions otherwise.… — David S. Goyer Copy Share Image
When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls. What is… — John Berger Copy Share Image
“That's the pleasure and challenge of reading great novels; you get to see yourself as others see you and you get to… — John Green Copy Share Image
Libraries allow children to ask questions about the world and find the answers. And the wonderful thing is that once a child… — Laura Bush Copy Share Image
“You are more likely to find three TVs inside a randomly selected house than you are to find a single book that… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“The best thing you can do for your kids is to encourage reading for pleasure--it makes required school reading so much easier… — Raven Black Copy Share Image
“I do not like postmodernism, postapocalyptic settings, postmortem narrators, or magic realism. I rarely respond to supposedly clever formal devices, multiple fonts,… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
“--You're rather well read for a working-class girl, she said with her back to me. --Really? I've found that all my well-read… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
“My job is not to sell the books - my father does that - but to look after them. Every so often… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
“That Wisedome is acquired, not by reading of Books, but of Men. Consequently whereunto, those persons, that for the most part can… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
Dad always said that he had enough trouble sorting the fiction out of so-called facts, without reading fiction. He always said that… — Jim Thompson Copy Share Image
“Don't be amazed if you see my eyes always wandering. In fact, this is my way of reading, and it is only… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
My mother married again after my father's death - another Royal Air Force officer, and a very different kind of man. We… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
