I have a few close friends with whom I can practice speaking Italian, but I mostly maintain fluency through reading. — Amanda Knox Copy Share Image
“It is with the common book that most readers will spend their head-tilted hours.” — Lewis Buzbee Copy Share Image
I got my style from a lot of different people, even my style of reading, even Johnny Carson inspired me. — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I think reading has got so many more enemies now that graphic novels have kind of flipped over to that side. — Gene Luen Yang Copy Share Image
“...we can pretend that the book in question is not Mr. West’s but mine, made mine by the madness of my reading.” — J.M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
All writers want to know that someone is reading their work, taking them seriously. It provides a kind of moral support. — Felice Picano Copy Share Image
I'm quite a calm player. I like to have the ball at my feet, I'm good with the ball and I'm quite… — Victor Lindelof Copy Share Image
“Let this little book be thy friend, if, owing to fortune or through thine own fault, thou canst not find a dearer… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
After reading the doctrines of Plato, Socrates or Aristotle, we feel the specific difference between their words and Christ's is the difference… — Joseph Parker Copy Share Image
High school teachers who want to get reluctant readers turned around need to give the students some say in the reading list.… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
“A tough life needs a tough language—and that is what poetry is. That is what literature offers—a language powerful enough to say… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I did the traditional thing with falling in love with words, reading books and underlining lines I liked and words I didn't… — Carrie Fisher Copy Share Image
If I'm reading about a river or the trees or the wind blowing or the stars at night, if you can hear… — Julie Andrews Copy Share Image
Tris: "I was reading." Sandry: "You're always reading. The only way people can ever talk to you is to interrupt." Tris: "Then… — Tamora Pierce Copy Share Image
“Truths are dangerous," he said. "Then why are you writing them in a book?" "To catch them between the pages," said Teddy,… — Kristin Cashore Copy Share Image
A text may be superbly written, exquisitely subtle, deeply meaningful, but still seem like a luxury extra, something we add to the… — Michel Faber Copy Share Image
“The man who has not the habit of reading is imprisoned in his immediate world, in respect to time and space. His… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
Heaven, Kiwi thought, would be the reading room of a great library. But it would be private. Cozy. You wouldn’t have to… — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
You never know what you're in for when you take a role. When you're reading the script, you're in some café in… — Melissa George Copy Share Image
Avoid stock expressions (like the plague, as William Safire used to say) and repetitions. Don't say that as a boy your grandmother… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Strange now to think of you, gone without corsets & eyes, while I walk on the sunny pavement of Greenwich Village. downtown… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
Still in my coat and hat, I sank onto the stair to read the letter. (I never read without making sure I… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
I already read everything. I read poems and plays and novels and newspapers and comic books and magazines. I read tins in… — Janice Galloway Copy Share Image
I visited Paterson many years ago - 20 some years ago as a kind of day trip because of William Carlos Williams,… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
The truth is libraries are raucous clubhouses for free speech, controversy and community. — Paula Poundstone Copy Share Image
“Baba Yaga: "... What are his powers" Mirror on the wall: "He reads” — Bill Willingham Copy Share Image
“A good story defies the reader's expectations, and in doing so, brings them satisfaction.” — Thomas Maltman Copy Share Image
I'm not really interested in writing or reading about people who are nice and easy. I like the problem children. — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
I am fond of saying that reading the Bible turned me into an atheist. — Ruth Hurmence Green Copy Share Image
“It is always more helpful and more important to stop reading than to continue reading.” — Stillness Speaks by Eckart Tolle Copy Share Image
“After each book the world changes in my eyes, i have become more suspicious and eager at the same time.” — Anna Jae Copy Share Image
“Every book has to wait for the right time to be read and understood.” — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
“the more he learned, the more he realized that there is too much to learn in anyone’s lifetime.” — Shane Kuhn Copy Share Image
“The reader leaves his mark on the book, as the book leaves its mark on the reader.” — Gabrielle Dubois Copy Share Image
Reading is a private pursuit; one that takes place behind closed doors. — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
“The act of love and the act of poetry Are not compatible With the reading aloud of a newspaper” — André Breton Copy Share Image
My father was a writer, so I grew up writing and reading and I was really encouraged by him. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I always read everything on the desks of people I went to see in Moscow, London, Paris I found it quite useful. — W. Averell Harriman Copy Share Image
“Seek to engage yourself in passionate reading. You will gain better understanding of life .” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
“Be prepared to change, because what makes you feel happy will also change” — Ela Crain Copy Share Image
