You can't just be you. You have to double yourself. You have to read books on subjects you know nothing about. You… — Mary Wells Lawrence Copy Share Image
Always keep absorbing art and looking at paintings and reading books and watching movies in other languages, just getting to know the… — Karyn Kusama Copy Share Image
This book was written in those long hours I spent waiting for my wife to get dressed to go out. And if… — Groucho Marx Copy Share Image
“I look around and see that many — not all, but many — problems we've got could be solved if our culture… — Camilo Gomes Jr Copy Share Image
There's a different kind of experience you have when you experience live entertainment versus the kinds of media we tend to consume… — Randy Pitchford Copy Share Image
“All I really want to do is spend my life traveling the world, reading books that take my breath away, drinking all… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The chief knowledge that's man on from reading books is the knowledge that very few of them are worth reading. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The importance and influence of books on me has been cumulative: the result of hearing and reading lots of stories about interesting… — Louise Brown Copy Share Image
“He who doesn't see the essence of books shall surely be ruled by those who find and value the real essence of… — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah Copy Share Image
My history writing was based on what I saw in strange, exotic places rather than just reading books. — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
“In an enchanting encounter with the myriad books that I met in a cosy book shop today, I couldn't help but get… — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
I love mysteries, and I read them every night before I go to bed. — David Herbert Donald Copy Share Image
“You're perfect for each other, she had insisted. "both of you act like you're already retired, always stuck at home reading books.” — Azadeh Moaveni Copy Share Image
“No book is worth reading once if it is not worth reading many times.” — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Writing this book required an enormous amount of help from friends. To them goes the credit. I'll take the money. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
“Despite his first, the study of English literature seemed in retrospect an absorbing parlor game, and reading books and having opinions about… — Ian McEwan Copy Share Image
I think the kind of unexpected I really love is when you open books and the actual way of writing is different… — Lalla Ward Copy Share Image
I may say it of our preposterous use of books,--He knew not what to do, and so he read. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I always wrote. I wrote from when I was 12. That was therapeutic for me in those days. I wrote things to… — Carrie Fisher Copy Share Image
Ours is an age of pedagogy. Anxious parents instruct their children more and more, at younger and younger ages, until they're reading… — Alison Gopnik Copy Share Image
“Literature is a cake with many toys baked inside-and even if you find them all, if you don't enjoy the path that… — Camron Wright Copy Share Image
“All the successful personalities had one common element, they all liked reading books.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
For me, fear manifests itself in snoozing and inactivity. I just become so sleepy, any time of day, when something needs to… — Zazie Beetz Copy Share Image