“Beach reading: Planning on reading, but failing relentlessly due to the heart-stirring view.” — Malak El Halabi Copy Share Image
Most people associate reading with laying on the beach. They don't see that it's crucial for a democracy! — David Baldacci Copy Share Image
In antiquity and the Middle Ages reading was necessarily reading aloud. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
“I had books. Reading them is like travelling to other places. Being other people. Living other lives.” — Liz Braswell Copy Share Image
“Some people are like fireworks: alluring from a distance, but fatal close up” — S.E. SEVER Copy Share Image
“You can see the size of people’s dreams from their profit and loss calculations” — S.E. SEVER Copy Share Image
Reading is the only area of my life in which I prefer to be non-autonomous. — Sophie Hannah Copy Share Image
Like most-maybe all- writers, I learned to write by writing and, by example, by reading books. — Francine Prose Copy Share Image
“A novel worth reading is an education of the heart. It enlarges your sense of human possibility, of what human nature is,… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I'd go somewhere where no one spoke. I would take a stack of books up to my hips, and I'd read nonstop.… — Linda Hamilton Copy Share Image
“And as I surveyed the clutter of his study I was pleased to see that he was a man after my own… — Ross King Copy Share Image
Just as we were finishing 'Paul's Boutique' we got our own places, and I was going out to clubs a lot less.… — Adam Yauch Copy Share Image
I find now I'm reading a lot more nonfiction, simply because every time I read fiction, I think I can write it… — Chris Claremont Copy Share Image
Once in a while you start having second thoughts, then you read a letter from someone that lifts your spirits so much… — Corbin Bleu Copy Share Image
If a man begins to read in the middle of a book, and feels an inclination to go on, let him not… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I read my books at night, like that, under the quilt with the overheated reading lamp. Reading all those good lines while… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
Just because somebody hears something you say, or reads something that you write, doesn't mean you've reached them. With reading comprehension being… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
My readers are as diverse as any group you will ever see. Something that booksellers always tell me. That they are always… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
My mother was good at reading books, making cinnamon biscuits, and coloring in a coloring book. Also she was a good eater… — Haven Kimmel Copy Share Image
It feels great to wake up feeling healthy, awake and alert. I love waking up in the morning, taking a deep breath,… — Saif Ali Khan Copy Share Image
“I love books. I adore everything about them. I love the feel of the pages on my fingertips. They are light enough… — Nnedi Okorafor Copy Share Image
Learning to read the Bible in the light of the times in which it was written is critical. Reading it uncritically, without… — Adam Hamilton Copy Share Image
Among those today who believe that modern poetry must do without rhyme or metre, there is an assumption that the alternative to… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
“You turn the book over in your hands, you scan the sentences on the back of the jacket, generic phrases that don't… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
I write early in the morning, usually after reading portions of at least half a dozen newspapers on the web. — Alan Dean Foster Copy Share Image
'To Kill A Mockingbird' is one of my favourite novels, my mum brought me up reading it, and it never fails to… — Jessica Marais Copy Share Image
The character that lasts is an ordinary guy with some extraordinary qualities. — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
The way I putted today, I must've been reading the greens in Spanish and putting them in English. — Homero Blancas Copy Share Image
Seek in reading and you will find in meditation; knock in prayer and it will be opened to you in contemplation. — John of the Cross Copy Share Image
Why should we leave it to Harper & Brothers and Redding & Co. to select our reading? — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I was a bookworm in school, and in those days it was easy to get books. Bigger cities had book shops. — Ruskin Bond 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
“If you think you have the power to change someone, why not start from yourself?” — Ela Crain Copy Share Image
With various readings stored his empty skull, Learn'd without sense, and venerably dull. — Charles Churchill Copy Share Image
When I was very young I was reading a lot of Latin American fiction, which later would be called "boom fiction." — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
Sometimes when reading Goethe I have the paralyzing suspicion that he is trying to be funny. — Guy Davenport Copy Share Image
“There is really only one way to learn good writing: good reading and extensive writing and revising.” — Robert Lane Greene Copy Share Image
Do you want to die old and craven in your bed?- How else? Though not till I'm done reading. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
