We were taught instead of just reading about life we needed to go out and live it. — Rulon Gardner Copy Share Image
“Reading is not life. Reading is creating life in your head. And that can only help you so much in a storm.” — David Levithan Copy Share Image
When you read a book as a child, it becomes a part of your identity in a way that no other reading… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“She feels bruised by her reading and by life too. She wonders, does she always fight her books before yielding to them?” — Austin Wright Copy Share Image
One way of reading my life is that I have been in constant search for a father. — Christine Keeler Copy Share Image
“Reading is one of life's great pleasures; talking about books keeps their worlds alive for longer.” — Kate Morton 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
Not only are we reading life code, we're beginning to copy it through cloning, and we're beginning to write, and in the… — Juan Enriquez Copy Share Image
“Little did she know that this was going to be not just any book, but the book that changed her life. In… — Elif Shafak Copy Share Image
“Reading is a full contact sport; we crash up against the wave of words with all of our intellectual, imaginative, and emotional… — Thomas C. Foster Copy Share Image
My mum was a children's librarian, so I spent a lot of time in the library. My reading life, because of my… — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
“have u ever read a book or a novel that is so interesting but very difficult to understand it and it doesn't… — Agnes Ramere Copy Share Image
If your reading life and your friendships overlap, that's just a nice coincidence - a case where the conversation you're having with… — Kevin Brockmeier Copy Share Image
“The pleasure of this sort of life-bookish, she supposed it might be called, a reading life- had made her isolation into a… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
My reading life is like an airport where a bunch of planes circle in a holding pattern, then - boom, boom, boom… — Laura Lippman Copy Share Image
“Without any reading time in class, too much homework, and little choice provided in reading material or writing topics, Sarah keeps her… — Donalyn Miller Copy Share Image
“The worst part of it has been, I think, the adverse effect on family life. It kills off family conversation. And it’s… — John Wayne Copy Share Image
Reading has always been life unwrapped to me, a way of understanding the world and understanding myself through both the unknown and… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
When you read a great book, you don’t escape from life, you plunge deeper into it. There may be a superficial escape… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“I think “taste” is a social concept and not an artistic one. I’m willing to show good taste, if I can, in… — John Updike Copy Share Image
The words of the Constitution... are so unrestricted by their intrinsic meaning or by their history or by tradition or by prior… — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
Throughout my reading life, I've enjoyed many memorable meals-if only fictionally. The oysters at dinner near the beginning of Anna Karenina, the… — Alexander Chee Copy Share Image
I'm willing to show good taste, if I can, in somebody else's living room, but our reading life is too short for… — John Updike Copy Share Image
“This was during a period in my reading life when I was given to understand that "relating" to the fictional characters or… — Carol Shields Copy Share Image
“...I have read but little of Madame Glyn. I did not know that things like "It" were going on. I have misspent… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
She had always been a reader… but now she was obsessed. Since her discovery of the book hoard downstairs from her job,… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
“The night is cold, but I welcome it. I need to feel something other than loss, something other than pain. There is… — Jill Hathaway Copy Share Image
Reading and life are not separate but symbiotic. And for this serious task of imaginative discovery and self-discovery, there is and remains… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
