“When a reader falls in love with a book, it leaves its essence inside him, like radioactive fallout in an arable field,… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
So, I was a fan of 'Luther' from the first reading of the script and watching the first series. I think the… — Wunmi Mosaku Copy Share Image
The variant readings about which any doubt remains among textual critics of the New Testament affect no material question of historic fact… — F. F. Bruce Copy Share Image
There are no taboos. Every topic is open, however shocking. It is the way that the topics are handled that's important, and… — Robert Cormier Copy Share Image
Hence, instead of Man Thinking, we have the bookworm. Hence, the book-learned class, who value books, as such; not as related to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There are a lot of good books around. People don't read any more. It's a sad state of affairs. Reading's the only… — Lemmy Kilmister Copy Share Image
I'm a very skeptical guy: my willing suspension of disbelief doesn't go very far when I'm reading other people's SF, and it… — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
“A great number of elements in the characters’ lives, both psychic and factual, are not communicated to us. […] These characters, I… — Pierre Bayard Copy Share Image
I think they assign things to students which are way over their heads, which destroy your love of reading, rather than leading… — Charles M. Schulz Copy Share Image
Reading Alan Zweibel makes me laugh out loud. And yet it is not a particularly funny name. — Eric Idle Copy Share Image
Of books in our time the variety is so voluminous, and they follow so fast from the press, that one must be… — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
“Ladies, get confident bout yourselves, build up your self-worth and esteem, love yourself and be proud of your achievements and your man… — Agu Jaachynma N.E Copy Share Image
Anyone buying this book is going to be out a tidy sum if he is sucked in by the title. I wish… — Groucho Marx Copy Share Image
READING, n. The general body of what one reads. In our country it consists, as a rule, of Indiana novels, short stories… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“As educators, as scholars — really, as readers — contested engagement is an important part of our work. We must engage with… — Leigh Patel Copy Share Image
“Human contacts have been so highly valued in the past only because reading was not a common accomplishment and because books were… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“El verbo leer, como el verbo amar y el verbo soñar, no soporta ‘el modo imperativo’. Yo siempre les aconsejé a mis… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
It is thanks to my evening reading alone that I am still more or less sane. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“He liked bookstores, and libraries too. They had a sacred, peaceful hush, like graveyards without the shadow of death.” — Garrett Leigh Copy Share Image
Today's reading was "if they ask you to walk a mile, walk two. Don't take an eye for an eye or a… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
If someone gives you an IQ test, what do they test? They test you on reading patterns, predictability. When you're sparring, all… — Sean Strickland Copy Share Image
“What's cheaper than a gallon of gas? An ebook. Save a dollar, stay home and read!” — Shandy L. Kurth Copy Share Image
“Well…it’s whether you want to face certain death by taking a risk on the other route or almost certain death by scaling… — Adele Rose Copy Share Image
Whatever our bedtime was as kids, we could stay up an extra half hour if we were reading. My parents didn't care… — Nathan Fillion Copy Share Image
The strongest results were in Florida and Texas. In just one year in a Texas charter school, an average student gained 7… — Maggie Gallagher Copy Share Image
“As night falls silently all around, She carefully turns the last page.” — Rachel Lewis Copy Share Image
A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Those who do succeed in reading the Bible from beginning to end will discover that at least it has a beginning and… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
Life is like a book. There are good chapters, and there are bad chapters. But when you get to a bad chapter,… — Brian Falkner Copy Share Image
The act of reading a story is sacred, and people build images and all that stuff. — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
The great thing about literature is that you're making up your own interpretation of the character anyway. Also, you're given basically a… — Jamie Campbell Bower Copy Share Image
“It would be difficult to define the limits of his reading.” — Blanche E. C. Dugdale Copy Share Image
We need to add to the three R's, namely Reading, 'Riting, and 'Rithmetic, a fourth--- RESPONSIBILITY. — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
I studied Comparative Literature at Cornell. Structuralism was real big then. The idea of reading and writing as being this language game.… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
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