“Once you read a classic, you will start loving even the smell of the books.” — Aman Jassal Copy Share Image
“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
I'm not reading what I write when I wrote. It's an unconscious outpouring that's a mess, and it's many, many steps away… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
Reading... there have been millions and billions and billions and gazillions of people that have lived before all of us. There's no… — Will Smith Copy Share Image
My stepdad makes me laugh constantly reading things out from the paper or getting worked up about a lady from a local… — Lou Sanders Copy Share Image
Reading, reflection and time have convinced me that the interests of society require the observation of those moral precepts only in which… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The fiction I've written and published is certainly inflected by the work of authors I was reading or translating at the time.… — Adam Morris Copy Share Image
After all, the world is not a stage-not to me: nor a theatre: nor a show-house of any sort. And art, especially… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
I seemed to have spent the whole time either reading, which I loved, or laughing, which I love, or fooling about, which… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
For a long time, I'd wanted to write a book that I would be proud and happy and psychologically and morally comfortable… — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
“Luckily for me, I loved books. Books can enlighten but can also benight, but at least one can play one off against… — Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o Copy Share Image
“I’d like the reading of this book to leave you with the impression that you’ve traversed a sensual nightmare.” — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“A novel is a kind of conversion experience. We come away from it changed.” — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
“Shout out for Joy! Don`t scream out in fear for victors shout and victims scream.” — Agu Jaachynma N E Copy Share Image
The book-worm wraps himself up in his web of verbal generalities, and sees only the glimmering shadows of things reflected from the… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
My great-aunt. . . . said nobody under 18 had any business reading Dickens. . . . She was right. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Don't just float through life; don't just agree to anything and everything, have a course you are known for at all times. — Agu Jaachynma N.E Copy Share Image
I have been blessed in many ways, and one of those is to have been born in Africa, for me a great… — Wilbur Smith Copy Share Image
I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia. — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
All good and true book-lovers practice the pleasing and improving avocation of reading in bed ... No book can be appreciated until… — Eugene Field Copy Share Image
I would go to the store, I would buy cassette tapes, and I would read the liner notes and sort of subconsciously… — Jason Reynolds Copy Share Image
“An intelligent woman is a goldmine! She has the ability to learn, reason and understand things better and faster than her contemporaries.… — Agu Jaachynma N.E Copy Share Image
“For most writers, reading is also a very intense experience; they don’t read so much as compete. The writer measure’s himself against… — Betsy Lerner Copy Share Image
Most of Emily's backstory is written out between New Moon and Eclipse. I'm reading them as we're shooting the films. I haven't… — Tinsel Korey Copy Share Image
Writing is a way of life. I do it because it's a way of experiencing the world, and trying to come to… — Emily Perkins Copy Share Image
The skill set of pastor and comedian are incredibly similar. You want to affect people. You're good at reading rooms. You're persuasive,… — Pete Holmes Copy Share Image
I do not know any reading more easy, more fascinating, more delightful than a catalogue. — Anatole France Copy Share Image
Traversing a slow page, to come upon a lode of the pure shining metal is to exult inwardly for greedy hours. — Kathleen Norris Copy Share Image
Articulate words are a harsh clamor and dissonance. When man arrives at his highest perfection, he will again be dumb. — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
I don't spend as much time drawing as I do writing and reading. That's the really work-intensive part. And by the time… — Kate Beaton Copy Share Image
I'd go somewhere where no one spoke. I would take a stack of books up to my hips, and I'd read nonstop.… — Linda Hamilton Copy Share Image
“What are we after when we open one of those books? What is it that makes a classic a classic? ... in… — Rudolf Flesch Copy Share Image
It wasn't until I was 23 and got married to a guy who was really bookish that I got completely hooked on… — Lisa Jewell Copy Share Image
It sounds so geeky, but I really do like studying and reading, and if I'm not working on 'Harry Potter,' then my… — Emma Watson Copy Share Image
Just because you're 40, you don't have to decide whether God exists...when you're already worrying that the National Security Agency is reading… — Pamela Druckerman Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world… — John Green Copy Share Image
I always think of my characters as alive human beings and try to generate questions around their life and understand their socio-political… — Abhishek Banerjee Copy Share Image
“At the end of the day your ability to connect with your readers comes down to how you make them feel.” — Benjamin J. Carey Copy Share Image
