When you are growing up there are two institutional places that affect you most powerfully: the church, which belongs to God, and… — Keith Richards Copy Share Image
I am a crazy online shopper. My husband always jokes, 'Another box arrived!' Airplanes used to be my sanctuary for reading books,… — Lisa Ling Copy Share Image
My purpose is to create a mirror for the reader to see themselves, to create a light for people to see themselves… — Kadir Nelson Copy Share Image
At home, my parents were quite old, so the surrounding was of elder people. There was no noise. Reading books was encouraged;… — Kalki Koechlin Copy Share Image
“You read a lot?" Galina finally asked. "Yes. It's an escape into another world." She tried to keep her words light instead… — Anne Mallory Copy Share Image
“Keep reading! Keep travelling! Keep thinking! And finally you will be there, in the Land of Wisdom where the mind has the… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
I was reading books about the Nazi presence not only in Argentina, but all over Latin America, and time and after time… — Lucia Puenzo Copy Share Image
“People come to me for the solution of their problem, if my knowledge and experience is not enough to solve the problem,… — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
“For our purpose, however, what the soldiers did or did not read is irrelevant. For, if soldiers did not learn to fight… — John Keegan Copy Share Image
I'd say that about 82 percent of what I write is bad, but don't go by me; I'm as bad a judge… — George Burns Copy Share Image
It is a relief to read some true book, wherein all are equally dead,--equally alive. I think the best parts of Shakespeare… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“I went from escaping into books to extracting things from them, from being inspired by books to trying to do things that… — Pamela Paul 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
“A man is like a two-story house. The first floor is equipped with an entrance and a living room. On the second… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Do you like Moby Dick ?" he asks. "I hate it," she says. "And I don't say that about many things. Teachers… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
Vacation cruises are advertised as luxurious journeys to exotic places, but a chief pleasure is the reading of books ... . On… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
Remember that just because major publishing is having trouble, that doesn't mean people have stopped reading books. Printed books won't go away,… — David Morrell Copy Share Image
I think I have done well, if I have acquired a new word from a good author; and my business with him… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I'm trying to start reading books that you gain knowledge from in order to challenge myself more. As a rule, I tend… — Konnie Huq Copy Share Image
“What I hate the most is when you realize your almost finished a book: like a good who’s balloon puts I fuss… — Eleanor A. Fostars Copy Share Image
My behavior is nonetheless, deplorable. Unfortunately, I'm quite prone to such bouts of deplorability--take for instance, my fondness for reading books at… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
If you say to teachers, how can we, with the resources we've got here, develop a policy on reading books, then within… — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
“He passed the time reading books on Zen Buddhism and playing basketball, where his ball-hogging style of play earned him the nickname… — Joshua Green Copy Share Image
“Back then I could not understand one word of what I read. Reading did, however, give me heart. Even if you cannot… — Peter Hoeg Copy Share Image
“A book is like a key that fits into the tumbler of the soul. The two parts have to match in order… — Brad Kessler Copy Share Image
“Think of me, the uneducated child reading books in my room at 22 Hyde Park Gate -- now advanced to this glory...… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Mary Stewart will always be my goddess. I can pick up one of her early books - one I've read a dozen… — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
“This idea that the buying, or even the reading, of books is an expensive hobby and beyond the reach of the average… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
“Here, captured between covers, was the history of the human imagination, and nothing had ever been more beautiful, or fearsome, or bizarre.” — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
“You can be a writer who doesn't read everyday. But you're not fooling anyone. It shows, rather embarrassingly, in your work.” — Don Roff Copy Share Image
“He was thirty-six years old, and six foot three. He spoke English to people and French to cats, and Latin to the… — Katherine Rundell Copy Share Image
In the old days people had far fewer channels in which to place their imaginative time. There's definitely more competition for time… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
I love watching the Bond movies obviously and I grew up reading the books as a kid. I've always loved them because… — Danny Boyle Copy Share Image
If minds are truly alive they will seek out books, for books are the human race recounting its memorable experiences, confronting its… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“A good vocabulary,’ he once wrote (April 1959), ‘is not acquired by reading books written according to some notion of the vocabulary… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading. — William Styron Copy Share Image
The young adult literature is relatively new - it just kind of exploded in the 2000s. When I grew up, there weren't… — Jay Asher Copy Share Image
An imaginative book renders us much more service at first, by stimulating us through its tropes, than afterward, when we arrive atthe… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
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