To become a lifelong reader, one has to do a lot of varied and interesting reading. — Kelly Gallagher Copy Share Image
If I were founding a university I would begin with a smoking room; next a dormitory; and then a decent reading room… — Stephen Leacock Copy Share Image
“I live in gratitude to my parents for initiating me--and as early as I begged for it, without keeping me waiting--into knowledge… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
Some will think your writing is genius. Some will think it juvenile. What's important is that you, the writer, are satisfied with… — D Michael Hardy Copy Share Image
All the glory of the world would be buried in oblivion, unless God had provided mortals with the remedy of books. — Richard de Bury Copy Share Image
I remember reading scripts when I started in the business, and [Latino roles] were either nonexistent or written as the maid or… — Eva Mendes Copy Share Image
My strength returns to me with my cup of coffee and the reading of the psalms. — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
My photographs don't go below the surface. They don't go below anything. They're readings of the surface. I have great faith in… — Richard Avedon Copy Share Image
“Colleges should offer lots of optional life-enriching experiences, like intramural basketball and a place to sunbathe. But reading books, like basketball or… — Steven E. Landsburg Copy Share Image
“But the operation of writing implies that of reading as its dialectical correlative and these two connected acts necessitate two distinct agents.… — Jean Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“The world of books is the most remarkable creation of man. Nothing else that he builds ever lasts. Monuments fall; nations perish;… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I would say that the single most important conclusion I reached, after traveling through Japan, as well as countless hours reading, studying,… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
“Indeed, all books, each and every book ever written, could be said to be offered to the reader as a form of… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
“...we could think or feel as we wished toward the characters, or as the poet, discounting history, invited us to; we were… — Janet Frame Copy Share Image
With plays that require any kind of reading program, I'm reading for a couple of years before using the material. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
When I write on Twitter, I do other things: I'm working, grading, or reading, and I'm procrastinating, and I'll pop on Twitter… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
As an author, I don't really think too much about being a celebrity. It's not like being a movie star or a… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
“Some say they get lost in books, but I find myself, again and again, in the pages of a good book. Humanly… — L.R.Knost Copy Share Image
By reading a lot of novels in a variety of genres, and asking questions, it's possible to learn how things are done… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
After more than sixty years of almost daily reading of the Bible, I never fail to find it always new and marvelously… — Cecil B. DeMille Copy Share Image
I can say with pride that I have spent days and nights not reading anything, and that with unflagging energy I use… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
I love and admire everyone who is different. I love that. The 'jet set' is banal. 'Good taste' is banal. Eccentricity is… — Jean Paul Gaultier Copy Share Image
My reading and drawing drew me away from the ordinary interests, and I lived a great deal in the world of imagination,… — Jacob Epstein Copy Share Image
If we read books all the time we would be very unhealthy, as we would not get any fresh air, exercise, or… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
The saving of empty beer and liquor bottles is a strange college phenomenon. I bet most of you college students reading this… — Aaron Karo Copy Share Image
If I reformed school, I would do two things: We can improve a child's IQ by three percent by teaching them a… — Paul Orfalea Copy Share Image
Vacation cruises are advertised as luxurious journeys to exotic places, but a chief pleasure is the reading of books ... . On… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
I remember reading about Mae Jemison, that astronaut. That was immensely fantastic to me. This woman went to the moon! — Juliana Rotich Copy Share Image
If a book has no index or good table of contents, it is very useful to make one as you are reading… — Isaac Copy Share Image
“Unlike music, excessive reading has been shown to be dangerous for the female mind. It was taught in our earliest lectures: the… — Anna Hope Copy Share Image
I was working on a satirical novel about a charismatic preacher who takes over a small Indiana town. Then I remembered Jim… — Julia Scheeres Copy Share Image
Reading is like looking through several windows which open to an infinite landscape....For me life without reading would be like being in… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I spend so much time on the Internet...I feel like I'm a million pages into the worst book ever, and I'm never… — Aziz Ansari Copy Share Image
Do you remember that kid that had sex with his high school teacher? I was reading online that he died today. He… — Zach Galifianakis Copy Share Image
I have to say: We were looking at all of Native American actors, who mostly all work under one casting director. And… — Kelly Reichardt Copy Share Image
The constant habit of perusing devout books is so indispensable, that it has been termed the oil of the lamp of prayer.… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
A couple of times he called the second he'd finished reading a novel and just had to tell me about it, and… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image