For my whole life, my favorite activity was reading. It's not the most social pastime. — Audrey Hepburn Copy Share Image
“If the book we're reading doesn't wake us up with a blow on the head, what are we reading it for.” — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
First publication is a pure, carnal leap into that dark which one dreams is life. — Hortense Calisher Copy Share Image
I listen to a lot of Christian music, and reading my Bible calms me down immensely. — Lolo Jones Copy Share Image
Through reading literature we can make ghosts speak to us, and we can speak back to them. — Stephen Greenblatt Copy Share Image
“Life is like reading a book... Sometimes when you need to move forward you just have to start the next chapter.” — Christie Cote Copy Share Image
All poets who, when reading from their own works,m experience a choked feeling, are major. For that matter, all poets who read… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
I'd love to go back to school for philosophy. I love philosophy, so I'm always reading philosophy books, annoying my girlfriend with… — Parker Young Copy Share Image
Things maybe take longer usually when it comes to TV - especially network TV. There are usually multiple levels that you have… — Andre Holland Copy Share Image
I feel like reading really defined me as a writer because I lived my life outside of my own body for so… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
You don't read it in the sense of reading a message; it doesn't work like that. What's happening is that the Shadows… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
Though reading and conversation may furnish us with many ideas of men and things, yet it is our own meditation must form… — Isaac Watts Copy Share Image
“There are countless reasons for reading, but when you’re young and uncertain of your identity, of who you may be, one of… — Michael Cart Copy Share Image
Sometimes, reading a blog, which I do infrequently, I see that generations of Americans have been wilfully crippled, and can no longer… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
“Bill Gates (and his successor at Microsoft, Ray Ozzie) are famous for taking annual reading vacations. During the year they deliberately cultivate… — Steven Johnson Copy Share Image
Throughout all ranks of society, from the successful merchant, which is the highest, to the domestic serving man, which is the lowest,… — Frances Trollope Copy Share Image
“El verbo leer, como el verbo amar y el verbo soñar, no soporta ‘el modo imperativo’. Yo siempre les aconsejé a mis… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
There are little things that get on my nerves, like people who have reading material in their powder room. When you go… — John Waters Copy Share Image
Context is everything. Dress me up and see. I'm a carnival barker, an auctioneer, a downtown performance artist, a speaker in tongues,… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
She had always been a reader… but now she was obsessed. Since her discovery of the book hoard downstairs from her job,… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
Sacred space and sacred time and something joyous to do is all we need. Almost anything then becomes a continuous and increasing… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
How is it that, a full two centuries after Jane Austen finished her manuscript, we come to the world of Pride and… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self. — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
To become a lifelong reader, one has to do a lot of varied and interesting reading. — Kelly Gallagher Copy Share Image
I was looking forward to having a halo. It would make such a convenient reading lamp. — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
People can relate to reading a book for the first time and the world starts to create, even without you prepping for… — Alicia Vikander Copy Share Image
Boredom is a certain sign that we are allowing our faculties to rust in idleness. — William Ralph Inge Copy Share Image
“But strangely, I am all right. The world I belong to now is the one in the books I read. When I… — Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich Copy Share Image
If you are a man of learning, read something classic, a history of the human struggle and don't settle for mediocre verse. — Rumi Copy Share Image
The job of reading is to use stories as a way into seeing other people as we see ourselves — John Green Copy Share Image
I love reading all the mythological stories. I was brought up on them. — Kamal Haasan Copy Share Image
I'm reading scripts, desperately wanting to work. I've set a couple of things up for next year — Charlie Hunnam Copy Share Image
Playing football helped me a lot. Just reading the quarterback's eyes and reading receivers, figuring out what they want to do. — Kawhi Leonard Copy Share Image
Reading books is fantastic. I didn't do it until ten years ago. It's great. — Sam Amidon Copy Share Image
If there is still an American dream, reading is one of the bootstraps by which we can all pull ourselves up. — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
“It is in doing things and not reading about them that results come about.” — Stephen Richards Copy Share Image
Reading is a creative activity. You have to visualize the characters, you have to hear what the voices sound like. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
