I grew up in New York, so I grew up reading the Sunday Times. It's always something I've been aware of, since… — Richard Press Copy Share Image
Life loiters at the book's first page,-- Ah! could we turn the leaf. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Drinking wine and wearing trousers were nothing compared to reading the history of ideas. — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
Happy will be those who give ear to the words of the dead: - The reading of good works and the observing… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
I hardly watch any Indian TV shows and prefer watching a good film or reading over it any day. — Himani Shivpuri Copy Share Image
“She'd always been good at reading people, but she couldn't read him. And holy fuck, did she want to.” — Kit Rocha Copy Share Image
The reason Saul Bellow doesn't talk to me anymore is because he knows his new novels are not worth reading. — Leslie Fiedler Copy Share Image
When I am reading a book, whether wise or silly, it seems to me to be alive and talking to me. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
After reading about the Al Ain Oasis by ECWC, I became curious about cultivating dates, and browsed about the web a bit,… — Caterina Fake Copy Share Image
“Reading is nothing less than divinity. An experience that is both visceral and ethereal. An open book in your hand, a mind… — J.G. Starbuck Copy Share Image
It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more… — S. I. Hayakawa Copy Share Image
“Long books, when read, are usually overpraised, because the reader wants to convince others and himself that he has not wasted his… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
I was reading 'The Mystic Eye' by Sadhguru of Isha Yoga Centre. I couldn't keep the book down and finished it in… — Tanushree Dutta Copy Share Image
“Reading is primarily a symptom. Of a healthy imagination, of our interest in this and other worlds, of our ability to be… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
As a child, I read science fiction, but from the very beginnings of my reading for pleasure, I read a lot of… — Norman Spinrad Copy Share Image
Never read bad stuff if you're an artist; it will impair your own game. I don't know if you ever played competitive… — James Lee Burke Copy Share Image
As far as superhero stories, what's appealing is of course that aspect of wish fulfillment. I mean, you start out reading them… — John Ridley Copy Share Image
“To engage the written word means to follow a line of thought, which requires considerable powers of classifying, inference-making and reasoning. It… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
Q: What’s hard for you? A: Mostly I straddle reality and the imagination. My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
A high-ranking Syrian official in DC laughed when he heard I was reading Michel Aflaq and writing this book. He said, "Let… — Elliott Colla Copy Share Image
“You should've thought of that before becoming a fireman." "Thought!" he said. "Was I given a choice? I was raised to think… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Every time I read anything, whether it be a book, a script or anything, I automatically imagine myself as the boy in… — Josh Hutcherson Copy Share Image
As a grad student and later as a writer, I have found it hard to sustain the pure, almost erotic love of… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
I actually dislike, more than many people, working through literary allusion. I just feel that there's something a bit snobbish or elitist… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
I don't think Trump reads. If he does, my guess is he's reading autobiographies of ... I wonder if he's read Mein Kampf. — Eric Walters Copy Share Image
The Athanasian Creed is to me light and intelligible reading in comparison with much that now passes for science. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
A man may as well expect to grow stronger by always eating as wiser by always reading. — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
If you stop reading and learning, you will start repeating yourself; that's why, old people always repeat the same things! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Reading books makes you smart, so if me reading makes me look like a nerd or a geek, then I am proud… — Shar-rae Copy Share Image
“What you reading?” She fanned her face. “Something I shouldn’t be in front of people.” — Sloane Howell Copy Share Image
Your baby only needs a lot of light at night if he's reading or he's entertaining guests. — Lawrence Kutner Copy Share Image
I'm reading a lot of scripts. It makes my career decisions in that sense much the same way I consume media. — Jessica Pare Copy Share Image
I don't thrive on stress. I love lying on the deck on our houseboat reading a book. — Bear Grylls Copy Share Image
“You recreate your world to your taste with God's Word in your mouth.” — Jaachynma N.E. Agu Copy Share Image
Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
“I mean, most people want to escape. Get out of their heads. Out of their lives. Stories are the easiest way to… — Victoria Schwab Copy Share Image
If you discover a word in my book that you don't understand, ask your parents so they can look it up in… — Gloria Estefan Copy Share Image
My reading is always about musical biographies. I have an innate interest and passion for that. — Nina Blackwood Copy Share Image
I had no idea that reading it would lead me to a cabin. It's dangerous to open a book — Sylvain Tesson Copy Share Image
“I love reading books. You really get hooked!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!” — Daniel Radunsky Copy Share Image
