By reading this message you are denying its existence and implying consent. — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
This must be what an addict feels like, I think, trying to fight the pull of one last, quick read. My fingers… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
The thing that inspires me most is reading and just observing the people around me. I think those are the two things… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
Students need to make their own choices about reading material and writing topics. — Donalyn Miller Copy Share Image
“Good books often answer questions you didn't even know you wanted to ask” — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
I couldn't know about my culture, my history, without learning the language, so I started learning Arabic - reading, writing. I used… — eL Seed Copy Share Image
You look at Vladimir Radmanovic, this guy is cut from stone. As if Michelangelo was reading and a lightning bolt flashed before… — Bill Walton Copy Share Image
The quote is always fascinating because it changes out of context, becomes different and sometimes more mysterious. It has a directness and… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“You are not permitted to suffer what others suffer, you are not permitted to fail or die young.” — Jaachynma N.E. Agu Copy Share Image
the process of reading is reciprocal; the book is no more than a formula, to be furnished out with images out of… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
I think books are like people, in the sense that they'll turn up in your life when you most need them. — Emma Thompson Copy Share Image
“By having a great many friends I do not prove that I have a wide appreciation of human excellence. You might as… — C. S. LEWIS Copy Share Image
My reading is extremely eclectic. Lately I've been teaching myself computer graphics, so I'm reading a lot about that. I read books… — Jack Prelutsky Copy Share Image
I have now and again tried to imagine the perfect environment, the ideal conditions for reading: A worn leather armchair on a… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
Reading and life are not separate but symbiotic. And for this serious task of imaginative discovery and self-discovery, there is and remains… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
People are starting to refer to 'The Giver' as a classic, but I don't know how that is defined. But if it… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
Reading poetry is an adventure in renewal, a creative act, a perpetual beginning, a rebirth of wonder. — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
Why does reading freak people out so much? Sure, I could be pretty anti-social when we were on the road, but if… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
Reading the very best writers—let us say Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, Tolstoy—is not going to make us better citizens. Art is perfectly useless,… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
I tell writers to keep reading, reading, reading. Read widely and deeply. And I tell them not to give up even after… — Anita Diament Copy Share Image
“I prefer the company of books. When I'm reading, I'm never alone, I have a conversation with the book. It can be… — Sophie Divry Copy Share Image
I'm old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised. — Wislawa Szymborska Copy Share Image
I've just finished reading Reality Hunger and I'm lit up by it-astonished, intoxicated, ecstatic, overwhelmed. . . . It really is an… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
When I found out about the audition, I knew that I was going in for 'From Dusk Till Dawn,' but I actually… — Madison Davenport Copy Share Image
Whatever a scientist is doing - reading, cooking, talking, playing - science thoughts are always there at the edge of the mind.… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
I knew a gentleman who was so good a manager of his time that he would not even lose that small portion… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
“Reading does not occupy me enough: the only relief I find springs from the composition of poetry, which necessitates contemplations that lift… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Certain bookworms eat books. Eat them, swear in them, spill things on them. — Tara Bray Smith Copy Share Image
I've been reading poetry publicly for 20 years, and this is what you do - you express, you sometimes dig a bit… — Jill Scott Copy Share Image
There is no right or wrong reading of Naked Lunch, though some readings are more common, and thus Burroughs commercial is not… — Rick Moody Copy Share Image
The most difficult thing about living as a writer is precisely 'having to write.' Pretending to be a writer is easy. Living… — Kim Young-ha Copy Share Image
When you are in the midst of writing a book, I think it is important to touch base every day. If I… — Emma Healey Copy Share Image
