Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
I have consistently urged my friends to abstain from reading it. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“I do lend my books, but I have to be a bit selective because my marginalia are so incriminating.” --Alison Bechdel” — Leah Price Copy Share Image
Reading Stephen King's book, On Writing, was like being cornered and forced to have a long, drawn out mental enema. — Mary Garden Copy Share Image
Reading is essential to human life. When the last reader dies, humanity will be at an end. — Anthony McCarten Copy Share Image
Reading, to most people, means an ashamed way of killing time disguised under a dignified name — Ernest Dimnet Copy Share Image
As you mature, you start reading and studying and researching, you start to really know what life is about. — Afrika Bambaataa Copy Share Image
The love of books is a love which requires neither justification, apology, nor defense. — John Alfred Langford Copy Share Image
I don't mind opinions, because you like something or you don't like something, but to say things about your personal life? I'm… — Andre Benjamin Copy Share Image
“There’s a vast underground network for goodness at work in this world—a web of people who’ve put reading at the center of… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
There weren't too many books by women that were taught in school, so I read those on my own, and the books… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
I read Nietzsche when I was a teenager and then I went back to reading him when I was in my thirties,… — John Banville Copy Share Image
Re-reading is much underrated. I've read The Spy Who Came in from the Cold once every five years since I was 15.… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
My first reading of Tolstoy affected me as a revelation from heaven, as the trumpet of the judgment. What he made me… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
For me, the goal of a reading is fundamentally to help the person get closure or insight, and so sharing negative information… — Tyler Henry Copy Share Image
I did an ABC Family movie called 'Cyberbully' a couple years ago, and it was unlike any movie I'd ever done before.… — Emily Osment Copy Share Image
If a reviewer is beating me up, I just say, 'Oh well, my writing is not to his or her taste.' And… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
“It was a shocking thing to say and I knew it was a shocking thing to say. But no one has the… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
There is a gentle, but perfectly irresistible coercion in a habit of reading well directed, over the whole tenor of a man's… — John Herschel Copy Share Image
Writing and reading are the only ways to find your voice. It won't magically burst forth in your poems the next time… — Dorianne Laux Copy Share Image
Great lecturers seldom hesitate to use dramatic tricks to enshrine their precepts in the minds of their audiences, and at Yale perhaps… — Louis Auchincloss Copy Share Image
“Depression can be due to a low endocrine function, nutritional deficiencies, blood sugar problems, food allergies, or systemic yeast infection. Depression can… — Chris Prentiss Copy Share Image
“Reading, like other types of art appreciation, is intensely personal. So what appeals to people is going to depend on who they… — Lauren Dane Copy Share Image
“Postoje ljudi koji čitaju i postoje oni drugi. Je li netko čitatelj ili ne-čitatelj - to se brzo otkrije. Među ljudima nema… — Pascal Mercier Copy Share Image
Every man has one thing he can do better than anyone else--and usually it's reading his own handwriting. — J. Norman Collie Copy Share Image
“Great books are great in part because of what they ask of their readers: they are not readily encountered, easily assessed.” — Alan Jacobs Copy Share Image
A lot of parents are confused because they're reading a lot, and they can't make up their mind on what they're doing. — Jo Frost Copy Share Image
As a youngster I was a great dreamer, reading many books of adventure and walking lonely miles with my head in the… — Edmund Hillary Copy Share Image
“Sleeping with books is a vicious affair, I do not believe it will ever stop.” — R. YS Perez Copy Share Image
Learn to read slow; all other graces will follow in their proper places. — William Walker Copy Share Image
Without reading, we are all without light in the dark, without fire in the cold. — Tamora Pierce Copy Share Image
“Stand out tall amidst challenges! Dwarf all irrelevant voices.” — Jaachynma N.E. Agu Copy Share Image
This is what I love about novels - both reading them and writing them. They jump into the abyss to be with… — John Green Copy Share Image
Books aren't just made of papers, pages and words. They're made of hopes, dreams and possibilities. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Well, my paper has asked me to do a series: Lives of the Great Musicians, reading time 2 minutes. — Dodie Smith Copy Share Image
I learnt to love reading. And then I started scribbling stories, and I liked that even more. — James Patterson Copy Share Image
When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Reading is something most people do every day and I didn't know it would mean so much to me. — Jay Blades Copy Share Image
“The present is not so glorious but that I should wish to dwell a little in the past.” — Baroness Emma Orczy Copy Share Image
