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
Why should we leave it to Harper & Brothers and Redding & Co. to select our reading? — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
With various readings stored his empty skull, Learn'd without sense, and venerably dull. — Charles Churchill Copy Share Image
“If you think you have the power to change someone, why not start from yourself?” — Ela Crain Copy Share Image
Sometimes when reading Goethe I have the paralyzing suspicion that he is trying to be funny. — Guy Davenport 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
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
The nicest notes I've received from readers are those that tell me I've gotten them back into reading for entertainment. For me,… — Jeff Abbott Copy Share Image
My love is new music, I tend to go and see a lot of bands, while [co-producer] Mark Cooper spends his time… — Jools Holland Copy Share Image
I believe people have a little more interest in reading what I'm saying or hearing me speak because they know I ain't… — Curtis Jackson Copy Share Image
Nothing makes me feel more mushy and full of love for my husband than going back and looking at our flirtation unfolding… — Emily V. Gordon Copy Share Image
I was reading five or six years ahead of my grade during public school. I was pretty bored. I made a contract… — Joshua Lederberg Copy Share Image
I love to read, and so I've been reading everything I can, not intensely, but I love to read so I read… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
I love melodrama. I love the simple fact. When you read Euripides he's a page turner. It's like reading a Mexican comic… — Guy Maddin Copy Share Image
Reading is to the mind, what exercise is to the body. As by the one, health is preserved, strengthened, and invigorated: by… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
“People don't read anymore. And, when they do, they don't read books like this one, but instead read books that depress them,… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
“At the age of ninety-two, James spent months hunched over the kitchen table, learning the alphabet, practicing his signature, and slowly progressing… — Linda Kaplan Thaler Copy Share Image
But in reading Shakespeare and in reading about Edward de Vere, it's quite apparent that when you read these works that whoever… — Rhys Ifans Copy Share Image
Mind you, Mount Rushmore isn't exactly the Parthenon or the Sistine Chapel either. After the naïve daftness of the Crazy Horse monument,… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
The book was long, and difficult to read, and Klaus became more and more tired as the night wore on. Occasionally his… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“From Tudor to eighteenth-century England, there are many instances of women writers with no place or room of their own. The life-story… — Hermione Lee Copy Share Image
I did some reading to prep for Expelled. I read one book cover to cover, From Darwin to Hitler , and that… — Ben Stein Copy Share Image
No player in the NBA was born wanting to play basketball. The desire to play ball or to read must be planted.… — Jim Trelease 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
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
“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
“Beach reading: Planning on reading, but failing relentlessly due to the heart-stirring view.” — Malak El Halabi 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
In antiquity and the Middle Ages reading was necessarily reading aloud. — Marshall McLuhan 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
“Some people are like fireworks: alluring from a distance, but fatal close up” — S.E. SEVER 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
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
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
![“My love is new music, I tend to go and see a lot of bands, while [co-producer] Mark Cooper spends his time reading the press. It's often the new acts that strike a chord, because they aren't seen on other shows.” quote by Jools Holland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/764/jools-holland-17666_band_my-love-is-new-music-i-tend-to-go-and-se_2171707.jpg)
