I've reread 'The Secret Garden' every year as an adult. I have a battered copy on my bookshelf - it's really quite… — Ellen Potter Copy Share Image
Note-taking is important to me: a week's worth of reading notes (or "thoughts I had in the shower" notes) is cumulatively more… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
You asked if I thought my fiction had changed anything in the culture and the answer is no. Sure, there's been some… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
“I like to read as much as I can from every genre. That way, I can express my love for all writers.” — Jen Selinsky Copy Share Image
I value my anonymity. I'm happy to come in on the tube or the train and watch other people reading 'Fifty Shades.' — E. L. James Copy Share Image
My readings are really about connecting people, whether it's to their deceased loved ones and finding the closure through that or connecting… — Tyler Henry Copy Share Image
Universal literacy was a 20th-century goal. Before then, reading and writing were skills largely confined to a small, highly educated class of… — Hugh Mackay Copy Share Image
“Don't let any situation intimidate you anymore, don't accept defeat anymore.” — Jaachynma N.E. Agu Copy Share Image
I read so ravenously that I would read through whole categories. I was crazy about reading biographies. [...] I think biographies are… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
I get sick pleasure out of going on the Internet and reading about how much people hate me. — Josh Tillman Copy Share Image
“If the riches of the Indies, or the crowns of all the kingdom of Europe, were laid at my feet in exchange… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
She may be lying in bed reading a book, she may be making love with a prize fighter, or she may be… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Digressions incontestably are the sunshine; they are the life, the soul of reading. — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
Sunday was the normal day for the political awareness session at sea. Ordinarily Putin would have officiated, reading some Pravada editorials, followed… — Tom Clancy Copy Share Image
Every reader should remember the diffidence of Socrates, and repair by his candour the injuries of time: he should impute the seeming… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
My reading practice is one reason I mostly don't read electronically. Different books are in different rooms of my house, and one… — Jordan Ellenberg Copy Share Image
“A child's reading is guided by pleasure, but his pleasure is undifferentiated; he cannot distinguish, for example, between aesthetic pleasure and the… — W.H. Auden Copy Share Image
The illusion of randomness gradually disappears as the skill in chart reading improves. — John Murphy Copy Share Image
“Don't join the book burners. Don't think you're going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don't be afraid… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
I do recall loving 'All Quiet on the Western Front,' and I know I read it in a schoolroom, but I think… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
Obviously I've been reading Kafka for a long long time, since I was really young, and even before I ever read him… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
The author I wish I was reading right now and always is Nora Ephron. I love the humor, the awareness, the sense… — Garance Dore Copy Share Image
One must read all writers twice--the good as well as the bad. The one kind will be recognized; the other, unmasked. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
