I'm very shy really. I spend a lot of time in my room alone reading or writing or watching television. — Johnny Cash Copy Share Image
“Reading is almost exactly like a cartwheel; it turns the world upside down and leaves you breathless” — Katherine Rundell Copy Share Image
I spend a lot of time reading and try to make sure that I can get a little bit of alone time… — Maggie Rogers Copy Share Image
a good marriage is that in which each appoints the other guardian of his solitude — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
The only reason I wanted to do 'MADtv' was because I grew up reading 'Mad Magazine' because I'm a comic-book nerd. — Orlando Jones Copy Share Image
You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino's new novel, If on a winter's night a traveler. — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
The best way to get kids reading more is to give them books that they'll gobble up - and that will make… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
I couldn't tell you a good, bad or ugly pilot just from reading it, but I can tell you a character I… — Jim Parsons Copy Share Image
“Perhaps she was more like him than he’d thought: Her home, too, had consisted of paper and printer’s ink. She probably felt… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
I really think that reading is just as important as writing when you're trying to be a writer because it's the only… — John Green Copy Share Image
If anything has changed about my reading over the years, it is that I value the state a book puts me in… — Sven Birkerts Copy Share Image
Once in a very long time you come across a book that is far, far more than the ink, the glue and… — Tahir Shah Copy Share Image
“I think we should always remember that reading -- the experience of a book -- is a very private, very personal kind… — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
When I was young, I didn't like to read. I would have much rather been outside doing something than been inside reading… — Tony Dungy Copy Share Image
Given the books of a man, it is not difficult, I think, to detect therein the personality of the man, and the… — Richard Henry Stoddard Copy Share Image
Milton almost requires a solemn service of music to be played before you enter upon him. But he brings his music, to… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
You gain all of the rights and privileges and respects that are afforded the majority, and that's ultimately what matters for your… — Todd Haynes Copy Share Image
“I recognized it instantly. It was a made-up story, a fantasy, the tale of four kids who went through a magic wardrobe… — Julie Kagawa Copy Share Image
I think you can perform any poem. But what I believe is that the best examples of spoken word poetry I've ever… — Sarah Kay Copy Share Image
“I was always bad at reading scripts. Back then, I’d be offered millions of dollars to do movies and barely crack the… — Matthew Perry Copy Share Image
The U.S. is telling the Northern Alliance to kill Taliban prisoners. It's totally a breach of all the known conventions of war.… — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
I've been an inveterate reader of literary magazines since I was a teenager. There are always discoveries. You're sitting in your easy… — Marilyn Hacker Copy Share Image
“How are you coming with your home library? Do you need some good ammunition on why it's so important to read? The… — Earl Nightingale Copy Share Image
The sincere love of books has nothing to do with cleverness or stupidity any more than any other sincere love. It is… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Teaching...can be likened to a conversation in which you listen to the speaker carefully before you reply. — Marie Clay Copy Share Image
“There's nothing quite like reading a good book that just might become your favorite.” — Joscelyn Gleave Copy Share Image
Into the paradise of euphony, the good poet must introduce hell. Broken paradises are the only kind worth reading. — Mark Doty Copy Share Image
Books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like a betrayal. — John Green Copy Share Image
Early in the morning, at break of day, in all the freshness and dawn of one's strength, to read a book -I… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I grew up playing soccer with the boys - quite far from reading magazines. — Freja Beha Erichsen Copy Share Image
I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything. — Steven Wright Copy Share Image
A man of letters, merely by reading a phrase, can estimate exactly the literary merit of its author. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
When you're reading the news and sometimes you just think, "How bad can things get"? — John Gallagher, Jr Copy Share Image
Don't join the book burners... Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Christmas is all about festivity, family, being together, reading stories and entertaining one another. — Spencer Matthews Copy Share Image
Reading is the work of the alert mind, is demanding, and under ideal conditions produces finally a sort of ecstasy. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Your life will be the result of who and what you’ve been reading and the people you know.” — Rui Zhi Dong Copy Share Image
When I was about ten, I discovered evolution by reading a book by Wilhelm Boelsche and seeing a picture of Archaeopteryx. — Konrad Lorenz Copy Share Image
