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
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
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
“Reading is the spark to imagination. Ignite yours and live forever free.” — Dan Sanders Copy Share Image
“As a boy, reading was my religion. It helped me to discover my soul. Later, writing helped me to record its journey.” — Ruskin Bond Copy Share Image
“It was impossible to feel alone in a room full of favorite books. I had the sense that they knew me personally,… — Riley Redgate Copy Share Image
Pavel Palazchenko has given us a well-written, inside account of Gorbachev's and Shevardnadze's diplomacy. Remarkably objective, it is full of insights, makes… — Jack F. Matlock, Jr Copy Share Image
Life involves effort and growth. You won't grow by watching a situation comedy, though you can grow by reading a book. I… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
“Just go on reading, as well as you can, and be sure that when the children get the thrill of the story,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When you're unhappy, I guess everything in the world - reading, eating, sleeping - has something buried somewhere inside it that just… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
I learned by reading an awful lot and by writing a half a million words of stuff nobody would do anything with… — Harry Turtledove Copy Share Image
You have to have really wide reading habits and pay attention to the news and just everything that's going on in the… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
We have seen too many arbitrary Strasbourg diktats based on the whims of European judges - from prisoner voting to blocking deportation… — Dominic Raab Copy Share Image
“When I come home and look back through my Book of Books I see a personal narrative I didn’t recognize at the… — Pamela Paul Copy Share Image
Educators, long disturbed by schoolchildren's lagging scores in math and reading, are realizing there is a different and more alarming deficiency: emotional… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
“The book itself is a curious artifact, not showy in its technology but complex and extremely efficient: a really neat little device,… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I was already doing a lot of splendid research reading all the books about ghosts I could get hold of, and particularly… — Shirley Jackson Copy Share Image
“You go into the office and take a book or two from the shelves. You read a few lines, like your life… — Jim Thompson Copy Share Image
Of course reading and thinking are important but, my God, food is important too. How fortunate we are to be food-consuming animals.… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
Reading is like breathing in and writing is like breathing out, and storytelling is what links both: it is the soul of… — Pam Allyn Copy Share Image
I was reading that lightning is a negative charge that comes from the friction that clouds carry. And since opposites attract, I… — Chris Colfer Copy Share Image
It wasn't even a good note. 'If you are reading this I am probably dead.' What sort of a note is that? — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
“Maybe Heaven will be a library and then I might get to finish my ‘to-read’ list.” — Kellie Elmore Copy Share Image
More people are reading poetry now than at any time in the history of the human race. — Andrew Motion Copy Share Image
I been doing a lot of reading, watching a lot of basketball, watching a lot of shows. — Rodney Hood Copy Share Image
On my reading of history people who want to bring us the best are usually the people we ought to be afraid… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
Yes, I was good at reading people. I studied them so I could put them in my novels. — Jennifer Echols Copy Share Image
The No Child Left Behind Program was an incentive to the schools to get their kids up to snuff on math and… — Sandra Day O'Connor Copy Share Image
“Books are so strong, you can break their spines and they will still stand for eternity.” — Donald J. Bingle Copy Share Image
I tried to convey to the boy how people's lives are often altered by curved lines read slowly from paper, sand, or… — Simon Van Booy Copy Share Image
Wonderful ... I was up all night reading it, laughing and crying out in horror. — Annie Proulx Copy Share Image
“Be a good boy, remember; and be kind to animals and birds, and read all you can.” — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
Running a marathon is just like reading a good book. After a while you're just not conscious of the physical act of… — Frank Shorter Copy Share Image
“Learning new things exercises the brain in such a titillating way.” — Love The Stacks Bookstore Copy Share Image
“READING A GOOD BOOK IS LIKE LIVING ANOTHER LIFE. THE BEST PART IS, YOU DON'T HAVE TO LIKE IT.” — Phillip Knight Copy Share Image
“I now remembered that Mrs. Todd had told me one day that Captain Littlepage had overset his mind with too much reading.” — Sarah Orne Jewett Copy Share Image
There are some great women's roles in television... so much more interesting than what I was reading in film scripts. — Miranda Otto Copy Share Image
