“His granny taught him to read, see. I reckon it overheated his mind.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
At the same time, reading an action script... It makes me wonder. Was The Matrix a good script? I don't know. — Shane West Copy Share Image
I used to read comics as a kid, and now I'm reading them for research. It's great fun. It's not bad homework. — David Harewood Copy Share Image
I hardly ever watch the news... I love reading newspapers, but I know they're dying out. — Felicity Jones Copy Share Image
Light reading is not to be avoided but should be used as a conduit to more serious reading. — Stephen D. Krashen Copy Share Image
“I couldn't convince her that if I had a book with me, I wasn't lonely.” — Alyxandra Harvey Copy Share Image
If you want to take writing on, you should pay writing the respect it deserves, which is to say, reading it. — Hilton Als Copy Share Image
I'm a very ordinary human being; I just happen to like reading books. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I recognize in [my readers] a specific form and individual property, which our predecessors called Pantagruelism, by means of which they never… — Francois Rabelais Copy Share Image
We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Actually, I'm reading a lot of my scripts. When I'm working on something, it's hard to find time. You're always prepping new… — Justin Theroux Copy Share Image
Vladimir Nabokov on 'Bleak House' or Henry James on 'The House of the Seven Gables' prove that reading can be an exciting… — Joanna Scott Copy Share Image
When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature. If I were a young person today,… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“write an article on the compulsive reading of news. The theme will be that most neuroses can be traced to the unhealthy… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Some writers like to work in other places like coffee shops, but I can't - I'd end up people-watching. And if I… — Julie Kagawa Copy Share Image
I've been reading Ed Brubaker comics since the first appearance of Ed Brubaker comics and every single time he announces a new… — Brian Michael Bendis Copy Share Image
How truly does this journal contain my real and undisguised thoughts--I always write it according to the humour I am in, and… — Fanny Burney Copy Share Image
The Amazons is a stupendous achievement--a long-anticipated centerpiece in the great puzzle of humankind. The story of these forbidden women, silenced for… — Anne Fortier Copy Share Image
Reading Gypsy Boy, I felt invited into a secret society. I've always found Gypsies mysterious and even slightly dangerous, and Mikey Walsh… — Julia Scheeres Copy Share Image
Film team kept me very, very shielded when I was that young, because of course, I was seven years old. You know,… — Chloe Grace Moretz Copy Share Image
The appeal of reading, she thought, lay in its indifference: there was something undeferring about literature. Books did not care who was… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
“Children are capable, of course, of literary belief , when the story-maker's art is good enough to produce it. That state of… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
When I put my faith in Jesus Christ as my savior, and I asked him to forgive and to come into my… — Anne Graham Lotz Copy Share Image
“Childhood is the time and children's books are the place for powerful emotions, powerful language, powerful art... There is no room for… — Betsy Hearne Copy Share Image
“Oh you cut your hair! What happened? Are you going through a breakup or something?" "My favorite character died.” — Joyce Rachelle Copy Share Image
He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the more refined art of skipping and… — Arthur Balfour Copy Share Image
“We bring to everything we read the expectations we have built up by a lifetime of reading.” — Richard Marius Copy Share Image
[A formula for answering controversial letters -- without even reading the letters:] Dear Sir (or Madame): You may be right. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
I was always working, so I would get reading done very late at night a lot of times. — Frank Caliendo Copy Share Image
For whatever reason, people, including very well-educated people or people otherwise interested in reading, do not read poetry — Paul Muldoon Copy Share Image
I have never experienced a sorrow that was not relieved by an hour of reading. — Daniel Pennac 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
“We invent fictions in order to live somehow the many lives we would like to lead when we barely have one at… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
I took the speed reading course and read 'War and Peace' in twenty minutes. It's about Russia. — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Writers are not just writers, they are creators of worlds, sculptors of the mind, they are architects of language.” — Jamie L. Harding Copy Share Image
Extrinsic reading rewards may not be necessary and may backfire. — Stephen D. Krashen Copy Share Image
“She couldn't help thinking that something was wrong with a person had more shoes than books in their home.” — Victoria Connelly Copy Share Image
You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
They say man he reading rhymes off his iPhone, no I texting your girl meet me at my home — Troy Ave Copy Share Image
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