A capacity and taste for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“Hello, my name is Jaako and I am an addict. I am addicted to reading.” — Jaako J. Wallenius Copy Share Image
Reading has always been in the chief joy, a never-ending topic of conversation, and often a lifesaver, in my family. — Elizabeth Borton de Trevino Copy Share Image
“Books have to be read (worse luck, for it takes a long time); it is the only way of discovering what they… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
“Words are directed to your personalities namely; - God, your hearers, devil and yourself.” — Jaachynma N.E. Agu Copy Share Image
“I read so I might live a thousand lives in a lifetime. I write to control the particulars in those lives.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“A novel is a kind of conversion experience. We come away from it changed.” — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
“Through books Cathy and I have lived a zillion lives . . . our vicarious way to feel alive.” — V.C. Andrews Copy Share Image
When I was 14 a chaplain at school gave me a reading list. I read everything and I went back to him… — A.C. Grayling Copy Share Image
The poet should try to give his poem the quiet swiftness of flame, so that the reader will feel and not think… — Sara Teasdale Copy Share Image
[On Gertrude Stein's Making of Americans:] I doubt if all the people who should read it will read it for a great… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
The thing about me and books is that whichever one I’m reading always reminds me of whatever’s happening in my life during… — Lauren Barnholdt Copy Share Image
I'm very much a word-centric writer, and that comes from the literature and the reading that I did as kid and also… — Grace Potter Copy Share Image
It is impossible to read in America, except on a train, because of the telephone. Everyone has a telephone, and it rings… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I avoid the young adult section altogether if possible, although it's sometimes fun to catch a girl lying on the floor, reading… — Cecily von Ziegesar Copy Share Image
I've been leading newsrooms for a while now and it's been an honor serving as Editor in Chief of N.J., but I… — Ron Fournier Copy Share Image
Here, my dear Lucy, hide these books. Quick, quick! Fling "Peregrine Pickle" under the toilette -throw "Roderick Random" into the closet -put… — Richard Brinsley Sheridan Copy Share Image
I began reading Harper Lee's novel in the skimpy shade of a pine outside my grandmother's house, fat beagles pressing against me,… — Rick Bragg Copy Share Image
If I write a paragraph and I don't get a certain lift from it, if I don't feel connected to it emotionally,… — Oscar Hijuelos Copy Share Image
“He enjoyed reading and writing. He liked words. Words didn't shout or make loud noises, which pretty much defined the rest of… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“You are created to be a creator. God does not give anyone a finished product. God did not create the telephone, car,… — Patience Johnson Copy Share Image
“I am a reader, a flashlight-under-the-covers, carries-a-book-everywhere-I-go, don't-look-at-my-Amazon-bill. I choose purses based on whether I can cram a paperback into them, and… — Donalyn Miller Copy Share Image
While we can learn or study techniques for almost anything we might want to accomplish, real understanding is not the mere accumulation… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“When reading the history of the Jewish people, of their flight from slavery to death, of their exchange of tyrants, I must… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
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