One of my earliest memories is of seeing my mother in her beach chair, reading a book under an umbrella by the… — Luanne Rice Copy Share Image
“Just keep her away from bookstores, if you can." Bookstores. Thanks, Grayson. That helps. Apparently whoever said, "no harm ever came from… — Jena Leigh Copy Share Image
One of the things about the arts that is so important is that in the arts you discover the only way to… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
Allowing yourself to stop reading a book - at page 25, 50, or even, less frequently, a few chapters from the end… — Sara Nelson Copy Share Image
“I’m reading a book about bombs being dropped on Dresden. Twenty-five thousand people are dying. There’s a plane banking over Manhattan right… — Hugh Howey Copy Share Image
“My life had got on the wrong track, and my contact with men had become now a mere soliloquy. I had fallen… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
“If you only read literature books, only novels, only poetry, only theatre, you are not reading a book! To read in the… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
“Reading a book, and taking the time to ruminate and make inferences and engage the imaginational processing, is more cognitively enriching, without… — Ken Pugh Copy Share Image
“Then I got undressed and, crawling under the covers, sat up in bed and sipped my drink. I felt like I was… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I want my books to exist in the literary world, not only in the art world. I am interested in having a… — Jill Magid Copy Share Image
“I close my eyes Only for a moment, then the moment's gone All my dreams Pass before my eyes, a curiosity... Same… — Kansas Copy Share Image
I hadn't read any of the books before, but I have since we started. It's so funny because I'm reading a book… — Angie Harmon Copy Share Image
“In her childhood, [Sylvia] Wright had heard a tune in which some lines seemed to be 'They have slain the Earl Amurray… — Tin House Books Copy Share Image
“He's reading a book called Great Warlocks of the 18th Century, and to get this ball rolling before Dean Devlin shows up… — Rusty Fischer Copy Share Image
Even on the iPad or the Kindle, when reading a book, you're rewarded for pressing a button - it's almost as if… — Art Spiegelman Copy Share Image
Karl Marx said, “The task is not just to understand the world but to change it.” A variant to keep in mind… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Yet change is usually stressful, and after a certain age, most people don’t like to change. When you are 16, your entire… — Timothy Ferriss Copy Share Image
“A good book is never exhausted. It goes on whispering to you from the wall. Books perfume and give weight to a… — Anatole Broyard Copy Share Image
“When I first went to Rwanda, I was reading a book called Civil War, which had been receiving great critical acclaim. Writing… — Philip Gourevitch Copy Share Image
“I am always concerned when people, finding out that I am a writer, apologise and say, “I’m not much of a reader… — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
“The boy was in the Hitler Youth, he says, and he was reading a book one day, he was really enjoying it,… — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
“Well, that's pretty much what the schools are like, I think: they reward discipline and obedience, and they punish independence of mind.… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Adopted children are self invented because we have to be. There's an absence, a void, a question mark at the very beginning… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“IT'S MORNING, TIME to get up, so get up, Arturo, and look for a job. Get out there and look for what… — John Fante Copy Share Image
“Never give more time to reading a book than to reflecting upon its contents.” — Frank Morton McMurry Copy Share Image
You have to remember that it is impossible to commit a crime while reading a book. — John Waters Copy Share Image
Never go back into an old love, no matter how strong it is, because its like reading a book over and over… — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
We feel the same emotions for our ideas as we do for the real world, which is why we can cry while… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
When people are reading a book, it's a personal thing. They're reading it; it's in their own mind; it's in their own… — Kristy Swanson Copy Share Image
If a kid is reading a book about someone who looks like them but doesn't talk like them, we stunt their growth… — Jason Reynolds Copy Share Image
I still believe that sitting down and reading a book is the best way to really learn something. — Eric Schmidt Copy Share Image
There are those who, while reading a book, recall, compare, conjure up emotions from other, previous readings. This is one of the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Every time there's a revolution, it comes from somebody reading a book about revolution. David Walker wrote a book and Nat Turner… — Mike Tyson Copy Share Image
Dating the same guy twice is like reading a book,you already know the end...but if I would only have the chance I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My ideal viewer is an 11-year-old girl who, like me, was once reading a book by Jean Plaidy and might be in… — Lucy Worsley Copy Share Image
I miss my mother very much, and I feel closest to her when I have dinner in the oven and the children… — Caitlin Flanagan Copy Share Image
...the sun looks down on nothing half so good as a household laughing together over a meal, or two friends talking over… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“...as a child, I was an avid reader. And despite reading hundreds of books about straight people, I did not grow up… — Lesléa Newman Copy Share Image
I was a misfit, but I think most teenagers feel that way. I don't care if you were a popular jock or… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image