My reading as a child was lazy and cowardly, and it is yet. I was afraid of encountering, in a book, something… — John Updike Copy Share Image
Be not so set upon poetry, as to be always poring on the passionate and measured pages. Let not what should be… — Cotton Mather Copy Share Image
As a man may know about Africa either by going there personally or by reading descriptions written by travelers who have been… — Max Heindel Copy Share Image
“There it lay in the early sunshine of spring. It looked a town rather than a house, but a town built, not… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“There is an unbridgeable chasm between the book that traditions had declared a classic and the book (the same book) that we… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
A relatively primitive village in which there are still real feasts, common artistic shared expressions, and no literacy at all is more… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
The mass of the reading public is not interested in learning and assimilating the results of accurate investigation. — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
It's really hard to teach me anything. I can't read music. I never learned how to read music. I read books about… — Don McLean Copy Share Image
“...too much time spent with books had not fitted her to be easy with herself, and other people.” — Jo Baker Copy Share Image
In reading some books we occupy ourselves chiefly with the thoughts of the author; in perusing others, exclusively with our own. — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
I never read anything in print about me. It started with not reading reviews and with the greatest respect to my publicist… — Ben Kingsley Copy Share Image
it is very well worthwhile to be tormented for two or three years of one's life, for the sake of being able… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I'm a good scholar when it comes to reading but a blotting kind of writer when you give me a pen. — John Millington Synge Copy Share Image
'Daughter of Smoke and Bone' is one of my all-time top YA fantasy trilogies, so I was a little nervous about reading… — Sabaa Tahir Copy Share Image
“I often buy print books only after I've read them in some digital form or other. It's my odd way of keeping… — Joyce Rachelle Copy Share Image
“Anyaele Sam Chiyson Leadership Law of Legacy: Supreme leaders determine where generations are going and develop outstanding leaders they pass the baton… — Anyaele Sam Chiyson Copy Share Image
After reading Graham Greene and Joseph Conrad when I was a student at Yale, I wanted to live in the world they… — Leslie Cockburn Copy Share Image
If you're reading something from a Nobel Prize-winning physicist next to some guy in his underwear writing in his basement, or his… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Back at the Chateau Windsor there was a rat-like scratching at the door of my room. Vinod, the youngest servant, came in… — Tahir Shah Copy Share Image
The one man who should never attempt an explanation of a poem is its author. If the poem can be improved by… — Archibald MacLeish Copy Share Image
Be a good reading role model. Show kids what you like to read, what you don't like to read, how you choose… — Jon Scieszka Copy Share Image
When I was pregnant, I had the romantic idea that after the baby was born I would not only take up reading… — Kate Beckinsale Copy Share Image
One of the reasons why people in the west are nervous is they are reading the Koran, and the life of Mohammed… — Mark Durie Copy Share Image
If we repeatedly read the Bible without the help of the Holy Spirit, it tends to reinforce our own prejudices and rock-hard… — Jim Cymbala Copy Share Image
I was a very difficult child, and the time I spent reading was about the only peace I gave my mother. — Kate Beckinsale Copy Share Image
I envy neither the heart nor the head of any legislator who has been born to an inheritance of privileges, who has… — Frances Harper Copy Share Image
If we finished our work, the teacher would say, 'Now don't read ahead.' But sometimes I hid the book I was reading… — Beverly Cleary Copy Share Image
“Because of literature we can decipher, at least partially, the hieroglyphic that existence tends to be for the great majority of human… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
College isn't the only answer. Reading is a college that you can and should attend all your life. — Paul Mellon Copy Share Image
All alone in a committee room of the Senate Office Building in Washington, I was reading the dry typewritten pages in an… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have spent many, many hours reading J.K. Rowling's work. I am a known 'Harry Potter' fan. — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
The No Child Left Behind Program was an incentive to the schools to get their kids up to snuff on math and… — Sandra Day O'Connor Copy Share Image
Good stories flow like honey. Bad stories stick in the craw. A bad story? One that cannot be absorbed on the first… — Arthur Christiansen Copy Share Image
We prize books, and they prize them most who are themselves wise. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
