“You don't learn anything just by reading books. You learn only by receiving blows.” — Swami Prajnanpad Copy Share Image
“It’s tough, but if you want to survive, sometimes you have to do the seemingly impossible.” — Adele Rose Copy Share Image
Most of the literary classics are worth reading, if you've nothing better to do. — Edward Abbey 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
“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
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
“We are liable to miss the best of life if we do not know how to tingle, if we do not learn… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be… — Claude Adrien Helvetius Copy Share Image
“I think my mother's and Granny's storytelling had had the same effect upon me when a child, as the reading of books:… — Mark Mathabane Copy Share Image
The conversation with the dead is one of the great pleasures of life. Somebody who is sitting reading Chekhov, Beckett, reading Toni… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
By reading a lot of novels in a variety of genres, and asking questions, it's possible to learn how things are done… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
“Because sometimes the memory of what one has read tempers the actual experience, and the experience itself becomes, more than something physical,… — Sergio Chejfec Copy Share Image
Well, the hard part about doing auditions is that the person reading you the lines, they're not really into it. They're just… — Carlos Mencia Copy Share Image
No director directs 'Game of Thrones' without reading all the episodes and knowing what's going on. All the episodes are written in… — Alex Graves Copy Share Image
Instead of a dedicated room, my best trigger is the actual habit of reading over the texts from the day before. Marking.… — Mona Simpson Copy Share Image
Holly is living proof that C.S. Lewis was right when he said that a good atheist can't be too careful of her… — Mark P. Shea Copy Share Image
Regular reading of and talking about the Book of Mormon invite the power to resist temptation and to produce feelings of love… — David A. Bednar Copy Share Image
Readers are less and less seen as mere non-writers, the subhuman other or flawed derivative of the author; the lack of a… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
“In the Middle Ages, as in antiquity, they read usually, not as today, principally with the eyes, but with the lips, pronouncing… — Jean Leclercq Copy Share Image
After a certain age our memories are so intertwined with one another that what we are thinking of, the book we are… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“You know that frustrating feeling of losing the page in your book? You didn't want to go too far ahead and spoil… — Rebecca Raisin Copy Share Image
Even reading my first bad review was an awesome experience. It was cool because you make something and not everybody's going to… — Ryan Coogler 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
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
I'm a very ordinary human being; I just happen to like reading books. — Haruki Murakami 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
“We bring to everything we read the expectations we have built up by a lifetime of reading.” — Richard Marius 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
“Oh you cut your hair! What happened? Are you going through a breakup or something?" "My favorite character died.” — Joyce Rachelle 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
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
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