“A great writer is a blitzed illusionist of portable magic. You're welcome.” — A.K. Kuykendall Copy Share Image
“Writing is a bittersweet addiction. The more it drains you; the more replenished you feel, and you crave it even more.” — Anthea Syrokou Copy Share Image
I was a library rat and a bookworm. I read all the time. I walked to school reading books. I read under… — Chelsea Cain Copy Share Image
In the words of Agatha Swanburne, founder of Swanburne Academy, 'Every book is judged by its cover until it is read.' — Maryrose Wood Copy Share Image
I wake up, and I'll just start reading and trying to brace myself for the rest of the day, and all the… — Phil Anselmo Copy Share Image
“Father and Ivy used to go off on their excursions, never knowing that I was relieved when they were gone. That I'd… — Suzanne Palmieri Copy Share Image
An American of the present day reading his Sunday newspaper in a state of lazy collapse is one of the most perfect… — Irving Babbitt Copy Share Image
Do we look like thrill-seekers? Wasn't it enough that we had to put up that sign reading NO HABLA ESPANOL and acknowledge… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
When a man thinks he is reading the character of another, he is often unconsciously betraying his own; and this is especially… — Joseph P. Farrell Copy Share Image
I try and picture you reading this -- there is a sense that as I write I try and get nearer to… — Elise Valmorbida Copy Share Image
When you become a comedian a lot of stuff that made you laugh before just stops. You stop watching your old cartoons… — Chris Rock Copy Share Image
Reading Edmund Morris's 'Colonel Roosevelt' is a rewarding journey, as it must also have been for its author, who concludes his three-volume… — Fred Kaplan Copy Share Image
“How can you be happy in this world? You have a hole in your heart. You have a gateway inside you to… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
This comes from Mike Gonzalez at the Daily Signal: [ Howard] Zinn's history "set the stage for the grievance mongering that passes… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
The very cheapness of literature is making even wise people forget that if a book is worth reading, it is worth buying.… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
My daughter is reading various Young Adult vampire stuff, and I ask her, "Is there even a bad vampire in the story?"… — Mike Mignola Copy Share Image
“What an astonishing thing a book is. It's a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
I used to write on pads with a pen but had trouble reading the words the next day. Years later, Bob Dylan… — Leon Russell Copy Share Image
“Anything I run across can light up the circuitry of my brain, and set me on an adventure. To research strains of… — Ander Monson Copy Share Image
My general impression about people like Steve Gould and Carl Sagan and so on is that when they disappear as individuals and… — Richard Lewontin Copy Share Image
Not to find pleasure in serious reading gives a pastel coloring to the mind. — Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne Copy Share Image
“Thank God for books, for validating your feelings, and letting you know you’re not alone.” — Paula Gruben Copy Share Image
“You are not permitted to suffer what others suffer, you are not permitted to fail or die young.” — Jaachynma N.E. Agu Copy Share Image
The chief knowledge that's man on from reading books is the knowledge that very few of them are worth reading. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“The summer passed quietly. I busied myself as best I could, reading a good deal.” — Michael Cox Copy Share Image
“I don't fear death--I fear dying before I've read Dickens end to end.” — Amy Elizabeth Smith Copy Share Image
I was ahead of my classmates in some ways. While they were enjoying Mills & Boons, I was reading Ayn Rand. — Manisha Koirala Copy Share Image
“Another way of remaining in intimacy with God is by remaining in His presence.” — Jaachynma N.E. Agu Copy Share Image
I write mostly for pleasure, and the reading should ideally be for pleasure, too. — Ruskin Bond Copy Share Image
My perfect morning is spent drinking coffee, eating porridge and reading the paper at a local cafe. — Anton du Beke Copy Share Image
“Books are the way to stretch out people's souls, and I won't have children with small souls.” — Jodi Lynn Anderson Copy Share Image
What a glorious garden of wonders the lights of Broadway would be to anyone lucky enough to be unable to read. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I thought I'd begin by reading a poem by Shakespeare, but then I thought, why should I? He never reads any of… — Spike Milligan Copy Share Image
“I do not have more information after reading a poem; I have more experience.” — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
What readers ask nowadays in a book is that it should improve, instruct, and elevate. This book wouldn't elevate a cow. — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image