It is well known that reading quickens the growth of a heart like nothing else. — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
One of the joys of reading is the ability to plug into the shared wisdom of mankind. — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
I just do not understand the stock market. It is like reading Russian. — Kate Thornton Copy Share Image
A parent or a teacher has only his lifetime; a good book can teach forever. — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
The man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and of elevated opinions. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I would like my personal reading map to resemble a map of the British Empire circa 1900. — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
Reading with children is an enormous gift to them. It's a great honor to invite children to read with adults. — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, I was running around; I was a little tomboy. So I was just running around trying to… — Dania Ramirez Copy Share Image
I try to be a good human being and keep up with what's going on in the world by reading and staying… — Bob Feller Copy Share Image
I liked reading about the nun who ate so dainty with her fingers she never dripped any grease on herself. I've never… — Helene Hanff Copy Share Image
Grandma told me Mama was once caught by the Principal for writing in the front of her book, "In Case of Fire,… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
A mathematician will recognise Cauchy, Gauss, Jacobi or Helmholtz after reading a few pages, just as musicians recognise, from the first few… — Ludwig Boltzmann Copy Share Image
“King Arthur's Knights had been the first book Arthur had read late at night under the covers with a torch...it was he… — Charlie Lovett Copy Share Image
I think you learn how to write by reading an enormous amount, so then your memory is stocked with various constructions, various… — Lucy Hughes-Hallett Copy Share Image
“Doom is nigh. I am in acute distress, desperately trying to coax sleep, opening my eyes every few seconds to check their… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“Read. Everything you can get your hands on. Read until words become your friends. Them when you need to find one, they… — Karen Witemeyer Copy Share Image
In The Last of Her Kind, Sigrid Nunez once again creates characters of such depth and situations of such vivid moral complexity… — Margot Livesey Copy Share Image
The earliest known writing probably emerged in southern Mesopotamia around 5,000 years ago, but for most of recorded history, reading and writing… — Tom Chatfield Copy Share Image
“But fiction is not, as many nonwriters seem to think, a random grab bag of made-up whimsies, as undisciplined and unreasoned as… — Helen Benedict Copy Share Image
The news of my pregnancy got out when I was in the middle of my first trimester. I hadn't even had a… — Jennifer Garner Copy Share Image
There are definitely connections between poems, but I wanted each to stand on its own. I guess it goes back to the… — Kevin Powers Copy Share Image
“The therapeutic effect of reading was not a new concept to the librarians running the VBC (Victory Book Campaign). In the editorial… — Molly Guptill Manning Copy Share Image
“Here was the South Side--a million in captivity--stretching from this doorstep as far as the eye could see. And they didn't even… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
If you want to work on the core problem, it's early school literacy. — James L. Barksdale Copy Share Image
The worst thing in life is boredom. When people don't know what to do with themselves, they are very, very poor. — Alice Herz-Sommer Copy Share Image
“What's cheaper than a gallon of gas? An ebook. Save a dollar, stay home and read!” — Shandy L. Kurth Copy Share Image
Reading is rapture (or if it isn't, I put the book down meaning to go on with it later, and escape out… — William Maxwell Copy Share Image
If you took my reading and writing out of my head, I don't know who I would be. — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
“Reading is your window to the world that no one can close for you.” — Sara Samarasinghe Copy Share Image
“I’m not dead. But when I am, it’s like . . . I don’t know, I guess it’s like being inside a… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
“Buying books always made me feel better, even if I never read them. - Florence Day” — Ashley Poston Copy Share Image
“Exercise to stay fit and healthy. Read to learn from the finest people. Meditate to experience more peace.” — Robert Celner Copy Share Image
A novel is an impression, not an argument; and there the matter must rest. — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
My main source of reading is scripts, which doesn't leave a whole lot of room for books. — Josh Hutcherson Copy Share Image
I love mysteries, and I read them every night before I go to bed. — David Herbert Donald Copy Share Image
“If you can't write, read. If you can't read, walk. Or walk and read, then write.” — Joyce Rachelle Copy Share Image
Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs,… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
A reading man and woman is a ready man and woman, but a writing man and woman is exact. — Marcus Garvey Copy Share Image
...but I preferred reading the American landscape as we went along. Every bump, rise, and stretch in it mystified my longing. — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
