“If you have friends who say they don't read, you need new friends. That is my final answer.” — Niedria Dionne Kenny Copy Share Image
“I love buying and collecting good books: I am passionate reader. This is my sacred life.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
“I've always felt sad for people who don't read fiction; they only get to live one life.” — Jack Tyler Copy Share Image
“Once you read a classic, you will start loving even the smell of the books.” — Aman Jassal Copy Share Image
I've always noted with some awe the reading habits of the Australian public. Australians read more newspapers and magazines per head of… — Felix Dennis Copy Share Image
“Reading is the life-saving water for our minds. Drink pure words as much as you need and remain alive!” — Munia Khan 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
When I look back on my reading habits when I was really young, I was really drawn to stories about strong girls… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
“I learned from the age of two or three that any room in our house, at any time of day, was there… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
“Thy profit shall be little in any book, unless thou read alone, and unless thou read all, and record after, as the… — Henry Smith Copy Share Image
“What Would the Boss Do? – Where do you start? Like drinking from a firehose – not all at once, just get wet” — Jerry Roth Copy Share Image
“Is it not a pity when some stylistic subtlety is lost without trace by the reader's inattention?” — David John Richards Copy Share Image
Novels need readers of a certain kind, people who are patient and enjoy immersing themselves in another perspective for uninterrupted stretches of… — Zia Haider Rahman Copy Share Image
“For I need not remind such an audience as this that the neat sorting out of books into age-groups, so dear to… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“The disadvantage of reading aloud remained the fact that it took longer. But books read aloud also stayed long in my memory. عيب القراءة بصوتٍ عالٍ أنها تستغرق وقتاً أطول، لكن الكتب المقرؤة بصوتٍ عالٍ أيضًا تظلَّ فترة في ذاكراتي .” — Bernhard Schlink Copy Share Image
“They write for people who read with the surface of their minds, people with reading habits that make the smallest demands on… — William Gaddis Copy Share Image
I can't predict how reading habits will change. But I will say that the greatest loss is the paper archive - no… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
I'm 52 years old, which means I'm of an age where my reading habits are more or less set. I read plenty… — Michael Wilbon Copy Share Image
“You poor girl, what sort of aged, unfriendly Libraries have you met in short life? A silent Library is a sad Library… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
“To speak without shame about books we haven’t read, we would thus do well to free ourselves of the oppressive image of… — Pierre Bayard Copy Share Image
Despite wanting to work in publishing, I was a publisher's worst nightmare: I rarely bought new books. So my goal was to… — Andrew Latimer Copy Share Image
I had hundreds of books under my skin already. Not selected reading, all of it. Some of it could be called trashy.… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
“Reading is like skiing. When done well, when done by an expert, both reading and skiing are graceful, harmonious, activities. When done… — Mortimer J. Adler Copy Share Image
“[I]t is not hasty reading--but serious meditating upon holy and heavenly truths, that make them prove sweet and profitable to the soul.… — Thomas Brooks Copy Share Image
“Books are almost as individual as friends. There is no earthly use in laying down general laws about them. Some meet the… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
These days, most of my interactions with young people are centered on the poetry or theater classes I teach, so the students… — Renee Watson Copy Share Image
We work with tweens. Middle school grades. That's a key time in a young person's literary history. That's the time when they're… — Sofia Quintero Copy Share Image
“Emma has been meaning to read more ever since she was twelve years old. I have seen a great many lists of… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
![“[I]t is not hasty reading--but serious meditating upon holy and heavenly truths, that make them prove sweet and profitable to the soul. It is not the bee’s touching of the flower, which gathers honey--but her abiding for a time upon the flower, which draws out the sweet. It is not he who reads…” quote by Thomas Brooks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c6c/thomas-brooks-2757_meditation_i-t-is-not-hasty-reading-but-serious-med_2690826.png)
