Hemingway was really early. I probably started reading him when I was just eleven or twelve. There was just something magnetic to… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
The thinker as reader reads what has been written. He wears the words he reads to look upon Within his being. — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
“the day women are allowed to learn to read and write the world will become ungovernable.” — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
“Without a clear-cut vision and a proper reading of the roadmap we may not reach the buoyant shores of the horizon. If… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
I don't read such small stuff as letters, I read men and nations. I can see through a millstone, though I can't… — Sojourner Truth Copy Share Image
Kim Newman's Anno Dracula is back in print, and we must celebrate. It was the first mash-up of literature, history and vampires,… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The person who deserves most pity is a lonesome one on a rainy day who doesn't know how to read. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Can I add a class? Do you have a problem with letting me audit 8th grade American Civics? Can you get the… — Sharon Stone Copy Share Image
For any kind of reading I think better than leaving a blank still a blank, because the mind must receive a degree… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
I'm incredibly lazy. On a day off, I'm more likely to be sitting on our sofa reading a book than out and… — Phoebe Fox Copy Share Image
I do not write for the reader to come, but for him who is here, short of reading the text on my… — Mario Benedetti Copy Share Image
Reading is also a creative activity if you're doing it right. You can learn more from a story that's left the tracks… — John Dufresne Copy Share Image
I'm always reading books, I'm always having encounters, I'm always taking trips. Whatever it is you come up with about how you… — Nick Laird Copy Share Image
All of creation, in the biblical view, was to ultimately prepare the way for the creation of man. But one does not… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
I've got an image of me at the bottom of my garden sitting under my silver birch tree reading, while everyone else… — Geri Halliwell Copy Share Image
“This is the strange life of books that you enter along as a writer, mapping an unknown territory that arises as you… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
You write with ease to show your breeding, but easy writing's curst hard reading. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan Copy Share Image
I never thought I'd be doing poetry books. I never really studied poetry. But the first one I did was after my… — Caroline Kennedy Copy Share Image
For me, the reading of the scriptures is not the pursuit of scholarship. Rather, it is a love affair with the word… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
“This consists in not taking a book into one’s hand merely because it is interesting the great public at the time —… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
The problem is that many who reject Marx do not read him, or read him only by bringing prejudices to their reading… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
Equal access to reading is fundamental to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
Safety' hysteria destroyed MySpace in the press. It got MySpace banned from schools, Apple stores, and by well-meaning parents who had been… — Tom Anderson Copy Share Image
Everyone deserves love and appreciation. If there is someone in the world whom we do not love, it is our blessing to… — David Wilcock Copy Share Image
“The things you read will fashion you by slowly conditioning your mind.” — A.W. Tozer Copy Share Image
In our land of opportunities and distractions, it's hard to devote our attention to the quiet pleasures of reading. It's as if… — Steve Leveen Copy Share Image
I've made a point throughout my girls' lives of reading them bedtime stories about strong, innovating women, whether it's Oprah Winfrey or… — Tess Daly Copy Share Image
Anyway GONE. My goal in writing GONE To creep you out. To make you stay up all night reading then roll into… — Michael Grant Copy Share Image
Twenty times, in the course of my late reading, have I been on the point of breaking out, 'this would be the… — John Adams Copy Share Image
I read nonfiction. There's very little fiction that I enjoy enough to spend my time reading. I am generally a nonfiction guy. — Peter Morgan Copy Share Image
Let me tell you something you already know: reading is critically important - especially for Christian believers. God, after all, reveals Himself… — Eric Metaxas Copy Share Image
The weird job of acting is that it is so simple. You just see the person in the situation. It is whatever… — Jason Isaacs Copy Share Image
The early commentators who put down the pre-presidential Roosevelt as an empty-headed young lightweight, all ambition and no talent, now seem comically… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
I have many enemies and they all think I'm being highfalutin calling it performance, but the word "reading" has a connotation of… — T.C. Boyle Copy Share Image
“It’s not the story-line that makes for good reading…but the storyteller. I believe Mark Twain could have filled out a credit application… — Rob Wood Copy Share Image
“Books for general reading always smell badly. The odor of common people hangs about them.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Literacy is part of everyday social practice - it mediates all aspects of everyday life. Literacy is always part of something else… — David Barton Copy Share Image
When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
