Writing has always allowed me to escape. I was a very lonely child. Because I was very socially awkward, I would always… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
As a man may be eating all day, and for want of digestion is never nourished, so these endless readers may cram… — Isaac Watts Copy Share Image
If you actually do cold readings, it's very close to how people actually talk, because you're experiencing these thoughts anew every moment,… — Patton Oswalt Copy Share Image
Beware that the one who reads is the same as the book, the same as what is read, the same as the… — Mohammed Dib Copy Share Image
Literary texts do not exist on bookshelves: they are processes of signification materialized only in the practice of reading. For literature to… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
“When I look through Bob, the actual stories between his mottled covers may have been written by others, but they belong to… — Pamela Paul Copy Share Image
From a child I was fond of reading, and all the little money that came into my hands was ever laid out… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I've always thought that if my death was imminent, I would read. When I can't focus on a book, I tend to… — Paula Poundstone Copy Share Image
I had been reading a fabulous book [The Man Verdi, by Frank Walker] about [Giuseppe] Verdi, whom I adore. — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
The current tax code is harder to understand than Bob Dylan reading Finnegans Wake in a wind tunnel. — Dennis Miller Copy Share Image
My books are not generic. You know when you're reading a Joy Fielding book. — Joy Fielding Copy Share Image
“I decide a book is bad if I get angrier and angrier as I read it.” — Daniel T. O'Hara Copy Share Image
“Elinor had read countless stories in which the main characters fell sick at some point because they were so unhappy. She had… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
“Everyone says that reading is a good thing, but Ava had started to wonder. People look at you with suspicion if they… — Stephanie Powell Watts Copy Share Image
The demand that I make of my reader is that he should devote his whole Life to reading my works. — James Joyce Copy Share Image
To make a book is as much a trade as to make a clock; something more than intelligence is required to become… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
I was taught a lot of Bible at home and had a voracious appetite for reading the Bible. — Amy Grant Copy Share Image
“Any day God removes His hand from you, you are finished. Your hope and trust is only in Him. Your confidence, your… — Patience Johnson Copy Share Image
I've always been fascinated by books. When I was young, my grandfather used to hand out a book - which would be… — Ashwin Sanghi Copy Share Image
My writing is of a very different kind from anything I've heard about. All this mythological material is out there, a big… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
I like the storytelling and reading the letters, the long-distance dedications. — Casey Kasem Copy Share Image
Vladimir Nabokov on 'Bleak House' or Henry James on 'The House of the Seven Gables' prove that reading can be an exciting… — Joanna Scott Copy Share Image
“The red firelight glowed on their two bonny heads and revealed their faces, animated with the eager interest of children; for, though… — Emily Brontë Copy Share Image
