The waitress comes over to me like, 'What'chu readin' for?' I had never been asked that. Not 'What am I reading?' but… — Bill Hicks Copy Share Image
“I spend money on convenient, comfortable and luxurious things; I spend money on books too.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
If there were nothing else, reading would--obviously--be worth living for. — Nuala O'Faolain Copy Share Image
“Real reading is reflex action; the born reader reads as unconsciously as he breathes; and, to carry the analogy a degree farther,… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
For though there never was so much reading matter put before the public, there was never less actual 'reading' in the truest… — Marie Corelli Copy Share Image
“As a man of 65, I prefer tea, which takes longer to prepare, and take even longer to taste it.” — Lin Hwai-min Copy Share Image
Empathically accurate perceivers are those who are consistently good at 'reading' other people's thoughts and feelings. All else being equal, they are… — William Ickes Copy Share Image
Reading is a heady thing. You can be into the action of someone's thoughts and take a whole trip down someone's ruminations… — Alan Tudyk Copy Share Image
“We read to understand our intuition of the world, to discover that someone a thousand miles and years away has put into… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
Once I start reading something, I can't stop. I obsessively read, which is a problem with long books! — Keegan Allen Copy Share Image
And Mandelstam says a poet - you go down to the shore and you see an unlikely looking from a bottle from… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
I've always loved reading diaries and memoirs and just getting a sense of different personalities and what made them tick as individuals. — Margaret MacMillan Copy Share Image
Even though you're reading something, it's as though that person who wrote it is speaking to you. It's a form of conversation,… — Robert Barry Copy Share Image
“Is there a better method of departure by night than this quiet bon voyage with an open book, the sole companion who… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
Before we go, I gotta know: If mind-reading abilities are real, there's something else I wondered if fiction got right about vampires-"… — Jeaniene Frost Copy Share Image
Milton Erickson was a master at using experiential techniques to elicit strengths that were previously dormant. Mills and Crowley have masterfully captured… — Jeffrey K. Zeig Copy Share Image
“The flesh of animals who feed excursively is allowed to have a higher flavour than that of those who are cooped up.… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
“Everyone that enters through Him is secured and the person shall find pastures for himself. Jesus really cares!” — Jaachynma N.E. Agu Copy Share Image
“We would be worse than we are without the good books we have read, more conformist, not as restless, more submissive, and… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
“Your words seduced me,captured and imprisoned me in a world of wonders. Enthralled, I lie at your feet,slayed and yearning for more… — D.Alma Copy Share Image
Novelists are always resisting autobiographical readings of their work, because they know how false those can be. — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
I have a great deal of sympathy for reluctant readers because I was one. I would do anything to avoid reading. In… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
“To make it into a discipline is to give too large a role to what is only an incitement. Reading is on… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“Beyond any gift or treasure, I desire to learn to read. (Lia ~ The Wretched of Muirwood)” — Jeff Wheeler Copy Share Image
I been doing a lot of reading, watching a lot of basketball, watching a lot of shows. — Rodney Hood Copy Share Image
I am so sorry to see the state of reading in such decline. I think it says something really scary and terrible… — Lee Smith Copy Share Image
Certainly I had from an early age a sense of the power and beauty of religious texts - the awesome magnitude of… — Ayana Mathis Copy Share Image
In a very real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read. — S. I. Hayakawa Copy Share Image
I really don't watch enough TV to know about the impact. In my experience as a TV writer, I would say is… — A.M. Homes Copy Share Image
“Postoje ljudi koji čitaju i postoje oni drugi. Je li netko čitatelj ili ne-čitatelj - to se brzo otkrije. Među ljudima nema… — Pascal Mercier Copy Share Image
“Never make fun of someone if they mispronounce a word. It means they learned it by reading.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The dull people decided years and years ago, as everyone knows, that novel-writing was the lowest species of literary exertion, and that… — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
I like when a poem ends on its "receipts," meaning it gives me something tactile or tangible to dwell on as I… — Allison Joseph Copy Share Image
Those who relish the study of character may profit by the reading of good works of fiction, the product of well-established authors. — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
