Reading. Reading was the stable backdrop against which my life was played. — Lynne Sharon Schwartz Copy Share Image
You should always have 2 books...the one you're reading and the one you're writing. — Sterling W Sill Copy Share Image
If you would tell me the heart of a man, tell me not what he reads, but what he rereads. — Francois Mauriac Copy Share Image
“I travel to know the life of great souls in the pages of a book.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
Reading was a big thing, yes. Books were a big thing. But the things that stick out were the newspapers. — James Earl Jones Copy Share Image
The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The most common and the monstrous defect in the education of the day is that children fail to acquire the habit of… — Charlotte Mason Copy Share Image
There's nothing wrong with reading a book you love over and over. When you do, the words get inside you, become a… — Gail Carson Levine Copy Share Image
Books have to be read (worse luck it takes so long a time). It is the only way of discovering what they… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My request that my writing be read twice has aroused great indignation. Unjustly so. After all, I do not ask that they… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
For me, the reading of the scriptures is not the pursuit of scholarship. Rather, it is a love affair with the word… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
If I'm reading a book and it seems truly interesting, I tend to start reading back to front in order not to… — David Shields Copy Share Image
I never get the feeling that I've decided rationally, cold-bloodedly to write a story. On the contrary, certain events or people, sometimes… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
I suppose you know where this country would be, where the world would be, if everyone who got depressed by the papers… — Sue Kaufman Copy Share Image
Tilda Swinton would be a great person to a reading on because I think she is such an interesting and fascinating person.… — Tyler Henry Copy Share Image
“In the shop window you have promptly identified the cover with the title you were looking for. Following this visual trail, you… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
It often astonishes me that I did not see the importance of meditation upon Scripture earlier in my Christian life. As the… — George Muller Copy Share Image
I never think about actual things when I'm painting. I'm not thinking, "I'm going to put a person here, a tree here… — Ali Banisadr Copy Share Image
Years ago I read an interview with Paula Fox in which she said that in writing, truth is just as important as… — Molly Antopol Copy Share Image
“What's strange about the whole thing is that although it's riddled with nonsense, altogether it's true - Julie's told our story, mine… — Elizabeth Wein Copy Share Image
What I like most: Reading well-written sources that take me to another world for hours at a time - and being able… — Linda Sue Park Copy Share Image
“In an enchanting encounter with the myriad books that I met in a cosy book shop today, I couldn't help but get… — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
Each young reader has to fashion an entirely new 'reading circuit' afresh every time. There is no one neat circuit just waiting… — Maryanne Wolf Copy Share Image
So much of reading and writing to me is about being elsewhere, no matter how much I love where I am. — Glen Hirshberg Copy Share Image
“Reading is the spark to imagination. Ignite yours and live forever free.” — Dan Sanders Copy Share Image
As an ethnic female in wrestling, there will be people reading my words and I want to set an example. I did… — Gail Kim Copy Share Image
The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it. — Elizabeth Drew Copy Share Image
There was a moment when designers draped in ermine would be reading Proust, or pretending to. — Karl Lagerfeld Copy Share Image
It's such a wonderful feeling to watch a child discover that reading is a marvelous adventure rather than a chore. — Zilpha Keatley Snyder Copy Share Image
There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates' loot on Treasure Island... — Walt Disney Copy Share Image
Holding a menu at arm's length, peering at anything that required reading, made me feel so old. — Bonnie Tyler Copy Share Image
Enlightened people like Osho are ahead of their times. It is good that more and more young people are now reading his… — K. R. Narayanan Copy Share Image
Reading inspirational and motivational quotes daily is like taking my vitamins. — Rosanne Cash Copy Share Image
Reading gives you some place to go when you have to stay where you are. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
“What's writ is what's read, yet the meaning is gone, since context is what gives each quote its own home.” — Will Advise Copy Share Image
Fortunately, I'm in a position where I'm reading lots of feature scripts and so forth. — David Nutter Copy Share Image
Reading enables me to maintain a sense of something substantive– my ethical integrity, my intellectual integrity. — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
Reading about what a digital native thinks of the Internet is like reading about what it's like to blink: it's kind of… — Emma Healey Copy Share Image
