“When I have money, I invest in buying books. My personal development by reading these books is my greatest pleasure.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
A book is not harmless merely because no one is consciously offended by it. — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
“Being blind is the worst possible thing and asking me to read and write no more is torture.” — Jessica E. Larsen Copy Share Image
I love reading books that you can't put down, and they just take you over for a night or a weekend. — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
A library is where ideas sleep between covers, waiting for you to discover them. — Lois Ehlert Copy Share Image
“Reading books doesn't make you smarter. Reading smart books makes you smarter. Reading dumb books makes you dumber.” — Oliver Markus Malloy Copy Share Image
I think I learned a lot from reading in general - even from reading badly written books. — Margaret Haddix Copy Share Image
“Make doing your best a habit, and you’ll never know not doing your best.” — Carew Papritz Copy Share Image
“She read novels. One book after another, sometimes at the rate of one a day, for a solid year. An acceptable form… — Wendy Wax Copy Share Image
I never read Ford Madox Ford's "The Good Soldier." I've been reading books that I should have read years ago and did… — Stephen Dobyns Copy Share Image
“What are blue-stockings?' asked Tommy. Naturally you don't know,' replied the other. 'If you did, you would sympathize more with Bluebeard. They… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“That's good,' she said, 'you go on like that, reading books. I'll make you a list myself of the books you ought… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
I found out a long time ago that if I indulged by stuffing my face with great food, lying about reading books… — Raquel Welch Copy Share Image
“Meggie thought this first whisper sounded a little different from one book to another, depending on weather or not she already knew… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
When I'm not writing or tweaking my computer, I do embroidery. When I'm not plunging into the past, tweaking, or embroidering, I'm… — Lynn Abbey Copy Share Image
Mostly, I was only interested in television as a kid, and the majority of reading material I collected was an adjunct to… — Chris Ware Copy Share Image
What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“Life for Alex is colorless and meaningless. She’s not interested in reading books, food just doesn’t taste good, work is a haze… — Alexia Praks Copy Share Image
“I entered Princeton University as a graduate student in 1959, when the Department of Mathematics was housed in the old Fine Hall.… — Phillip A. Griffiths Copy Share Image
Everybody has that outlet in life when they're going through different stuff. They like to do different stuff whether it's reading books… — Derrick Favors Copy Share Image
“I guess you can call me "old fashioned". I prefer the book with the pages that you can actually turn. Sure, I… — Felicia Johnson Copy Share Image
That by listening to some music, by reading some books, by looking at paintings, and most important by hanging out with one… — David Amram Copy Share Image
“Reading, which had been at the heart of my intellectual and emotional existence, was suddenly beyond my grasp. I was used to… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
“That Tolkien also included in Roverandom words such as paraphernalia, and phosphorescent, primordial, and rigmarole, is refreshing in these later days when… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
A 2 minutes of discussing with a wise man are much better than six mounths of reading books! — Moulay Abdallah Boulaassair Copy Share Image
There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates' loot on Treasure Island... — Walt Disney Copy Share Image
“You don't learn anything just by reading books. You learn only by receiving blows.” — Swami Prajnanpad Copy Share Image
“If this were a novel, I'd stop reading right now. I'd throw it across the room.” — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
I'm a very ordinary human being; I just happen to like reading books. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I love mysteries, and I read them every night before I go to bed. — David Herbert Donald Copy Share Image
“Tolstoy, Hafez, Steinbeck and Cervantes were no longer her friends.” — Soroosh Shahrivar Copy Share Image
We generally learn languages for the benefit of reading the books written in them — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
There is something so deeply visceral about libraries for me-rooms and rooms full of people dreaming and remembering. — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem. — M. H. Abrams Copy Share Image
I was an omnivore at reading, so that everything I ever read contributed. — Jack Vance Copy Share Image
What is more important than reading books; is reading people's faces. — Anis Mansour Copy Share Image
“Only a reader can understand how a book with 100 pages can be too long and one with 1000 pages can be too short.” — Sofija Copy Share Image
The greatest threat to extremism isn't drones firing missiles, but girls reading books. — Nicholas D. Kristof Copy Share Image
