The fire of literacy is created by the emotional sparks between a child, a book, and the person reading. — Mem Fox Copy Share Image
“If the book we're reading doesn't wake us up with a blow on the head, what are we reading it for.” — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
For my whole life, my favorite activity was reading. It's not the most social pastime. — Audrey Hepburn Copy Share Image
First publication is a pure, carnal leap into that dark which one dreams is life. — Hortense Calisher Copy Share Image
Reading is a joy for my kids, and to swing in a hammock on a lazy summer day reading a good book… — Marcia Gay Harden Copy Share Image
I have kept a reading diary since I was 18. I am jealous of my friend who has kept hers since she… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
The child lives in the book; but just as much the book lives in the child. — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
Between the covers of the books that no one had ever read again, in the old parchments damaged by dampness, a livid… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
Real myths are often strange and startlingly unfamiliar, and don't always give up their meanings easily; you have to tease them out,… — Elizabeth Hand Copy Share Image
I had no idea that 'Less Than Zero' was going to be read by anyone outside of Los Angeles, and it's -… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
“Want to get your kids to read more? Try making books easily accessible. Put them where kids can easily reach and don't… — Melanie Kirk Copy Share Image
I really like older writers, perhaps because they take me out of my element. I don't have a great deal of interest… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
“Contrary to popular belief, my experience has shown me that the people who are exceptionally good in business aren't so because of… — Michael E. Gerber Copy Share Image
I hate reading digital books. I don't enjoy the experience. I like smelling the paper, turning the pages. I think the book… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Told you not to tell her.” “That's not how I work things. That's not how you build a relationship.” “Build a relationship.”… — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
“Wide reading is important. You don’t have to like it, but it’s important to grapple with things you don’t understand. I’ve been… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Find time for thought, this is the source of strength. Find time for the game, this is the secret of eternal youth.… — Giannis Ritsos Copy Share Image
There is a strong conservative instinct in the average man or woman, born of the hereditary fear of life, that prompts them… — Gertrude Atherton Copy Share Image
I've learned a lot about language from reading slush. You can immediately tell if a writer is in control of the narrative.… — Mary J. Miller Copy Share Image
I was the type of person who was the question-asker. And not just genuine questions, I would ask a question so the… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
“Now that his children had grown into their lives, their own children too, there was no one who needed more than the… — Mary Swan Copy Share Image
“I was arguing not that everyone should read books by ladies—though shifting the balance matters—but that maybe the whole point of reading… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“I am sure Lady Russell would like him. He is just Lady Russell's sort. Give him a book, and he will read… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Jane became something of a walking thesaurus when she was upset, a side effect of too much reading.” — Cynthia Hand Copy Share Image
Through reading literature we can make ghosts speak to us, and we can speak back to them. — Stephen Greenblatt Copy Share Image
I listen to a lot of Christian music, and reading my Bible calms me down immensely. — Lolo Jones Copy Share Image
Wherever I am, if I've got a book with me, I have a place I can go and be happy — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
My reading preferences are kind of all over the board - I read nonfiction, I read graphic novels. — Dav Pilkey Copy Share Image
I grew up reading crime fiction and, especially in the '80s, women were just there to be saved or screwed. — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
“The choice is yours. Don't let your pronouncements destroy your destiny rather let them build your future up!” — Jaachynma N.E. Agu Copy Share Image
I enjoy reading tips about how to be more organized, and I rarely implement them. — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
But with comics you're reading and assimilating an image simultaneously, instead of just reading or watching the tube — Bill Sienkiewicz Copy Share Image
You can change any status quo, stand out, walk by faith and not by sight and things will definitely go well with… — Agu Jaachynma N.E Copy Share Image
You spend all this time reading or thinking or praying or searching or exploring.Maybe there's an Omega Point of love. — Sturgill Simpson Copy Share Image
That is the joy of reading fiction: when all is said and done, the novel belongs to the reader and his or… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
Students learn best not by reading the Great Books in a closed room but by opening the doors and windows of experience. — Thomas Ehrlich Copy Share Image
“I don't know what's more tragic, knowing how to read and choosing not to, or not knowing how to read and refusing… — Patricia Goldbach Copy Share Image
