“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
By the time I got to college I had stopped reading books because I wanted to "be cool" and started reading books… — Simon Rich Copy Share Image
“Sometimes you need to completely close yourself off from the outside world and enrich your inner world by reading and thinking because… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
I have boys, and boys are particularly resistant to reading books. I had some success recently with Sherman Alexie's great young adult… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“I have been reading three books Dean lent me this week. One was like a rose garden--very pleasant, but just a little… — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
I teach 18- to 21-year-olds - the 'Harry Potter' generation. They grew up as voracious readers, reading books in this exploding genre.… — Deborah Harkness Copy Share Image
As a kid, I know that most of my parents' friends were because my mom made friends with them, and my dad… — Paul Rudd Copy Share Image
“(...) perfectly ordinary books, printed on commonplace paper in mundane ink. It would be a mistake to think that they weren't also… — Anonymous 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
“this art wasn’t exactly a novelty for him, and he shyly observed that, having nowhere to go and nothing to do, nor… — Anonymous 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
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
“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
“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
I started my professional life as a philosopher of language and for several years took the orthodox line that meaning is an… — David E. Cooper 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
“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
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
“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
It's funny that I got to do 'On the Road' because the thing that had the biggest impact on me growing up… — Garrett Hedlund Copy Share Image
“Anything worth reading is not only worth reading twice, but worth reading again and again. If a book is worthwhile, then you… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
“Children learn from the world through doing, touching, experiencing; adults on the other hand, tend to take in the world through their… — Jennifer Senior Copy Share Image
We know where most of the creativity, the innovation, the stuff that drives productivity lies-in the minds of those closest to the… — Jack Welch Copy Share Image
“What reading does, ultimately, is keep alive the dangerous and exhilarating idea that a life is not a sequence of lived moments,… — Sven Birkerts Copy Share Image
“Better minds have said it before, but I don’t mind repeating it less well again and again: Reading, like the natural world,… — Junot Díaz Copy Share Image
“You know what’s sad about reading books? It’s that you fall in love with the characters. They grow on you. And as… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
Anyone buying this book is going to be out a tidy sum if he is sucked in by the title. I wish… — Groucho Marx Copy Share Image
“being renewed or restored. I have met many Christians who love Jesus with all their hearts, but they say they have grown… — Chaim Bentorah Copy Share Image
“When I began writing The Night Bookmobile, it was a story about a woman's secret life as a reader. As I worked… — Audrey Niffenegger Copy Share Image
“Real mystery - the very reason to read (and certainly write) any book - was to them a thing to dismantle, distill… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What made Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Edison and Albert Einstein such creative geniuses? It wasn't reading books or watching YouTube talks about… — Oliver Burkeman Copy Share Image
“I began, as most young people do, by reading the books I enjoyed. But I found that narrowed my pleasure, in time,… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
“As we know it today, discipleship is mostly about that first kind of learning: the classroom experience. And really, that’s about it.… — Mike Breen Copy Share Image
Books, gentlemen, are a species of men, and introduced to them you circulate in the "very best society" that this world can… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
I like reading books about kids where there weren't really many adults, where they didn't need an adult to come and solve… — John Boyne Copy Share Image
“(Mind you, according to Walter Benjamin, the twentieth century’s great philosopher of collecting, browsing and what we’d now call vintage shopping, ‘the… — Simon Reynolds Copy Share Image
“She read all sorts of things: travels, and sermons, and old magazines. Nothing was so dull that she couldn't get through with… — Susan Coolidge Copy Share Image
“The pleasure I found in reading books was disconcerting...I felt anxious about every new piece of information. I would latch onto one… — Hassan Blasim Copy Share Image
“Books whose topics I thoroughy depsise are accapteble because they often force the reader to think and to examine his own beliefs.… — Tiffini Johnson Copy Share Image
