I've discovered writers by reading books left in airplane seats and weird hotels. — Lee Child Copy Share Image
I am 82 years old. I imagine that I will keep on writing as long as anyone wants to keep reading. — Tony Hillerman Copy Share Image
“Shout out for Joy! Don't scream out in fear for victors shout and victims scream.” — Agu Jaachynma N E Copy Share Image
A capacity and taste for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
They say you can read faces. Well, if that is true, you can read the entire Vietnamese War in the crowds here. — David Diaz Copy Share Image
You cant start the next chapter of your life if you keep re-reading your last one — Harsh Copy Share Image
“We shouldn’t ask if life has a meaning, we should ask to whom life has what kinds of meanings” — S.E. SEVER Copy Share Image
I have decided that the trouble with print is, it never changes its mind. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
The liberal arts are the arts of communication and thinking. ‘They are the arts indispensable to further learning, for they are the… — Oliver DeMille Copy Share Image
[To write poems] I think it's important to do research, and research mostly is going to come from books, so all of… — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book! –… — Julie Klassen Copy Share Image
A bookworm in bed with a new novel and a good reading lamp is as much prepared for pleasure as a pretty… — Phyllis McGinley Copy Share Image
“I prefer my history dead. Dead history is writ in ink, the living sort in blood." "Do you want to die old… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
My reading with RuPaul was actually, for me, on a personal level, one of my favorites and the most shocking. This is… — Tyler Henry Copy Share Image
That book taught me that by reading, I could live more intensely. It could give me back the sight I had lost.… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
The trouble with education is that we always read everything when we're too young to know what it means. And the trouble… — Margaret Ayer Barnes Copy Share Image
If you take a book with you on a journey," Mo had said when he put the first one in her box,… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no young readers and writers, there will… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Lin Yutang also believed that reading is an art. One chapter of the Importance of Living is devoted to "the Art of… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
But re-reading Voss also demonstrates again that although White wasn't 'a nice man', and indeed was—perhaps rightly—scathingly dismissive of my and other… — Thomas Keneally Copy Share Image
“When the Day of Judgment dawns and the great conquerers and lawyers and statesmen come to receive their rewards -- their crowns,… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I didn't feel the need for anonymous affection, for people in the dark applauding. To me, it would be like writing a… — Tom Lehrer Copy Share Image
Reading has always been my home, my sustenance, my great invincible companion. "Book love," Trollope called it. "It will make your hours… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
I've been reading a lot about Silicon Valley history recently and was struck by just how core the lack of unions has… — Sarah Lacy Copy Share Image
“Hello, my name is Jaako and I am an addict. I am addicted to reading.” — Jaako J. Wallenius Copy Share Image
“Books have to be read (worse luck, for it takes a long time); it is the only way of discovering what they… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
“Words are directed to your personalities namely; - God, your hearers, devil and yourself.” — Jaachynma N.E. Agu Copy Share Image
Reading has always been in the chief joy, a never-ending topic of conversation, and often a lifesaver, in my family. — Elizabeth Borton de Trevino Copy Share Image
Literary influences are harder for me to point to, because mostly it's a mulch of all of my past reading. — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
“A novel is a kind of conversion experience. We come away from it changed.” — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
“Through books Cathy and I have lived a zillion lives . . . our vicarious way to feel alive.” — V.C. Andrews Copy Share Image
“I read so I might live a thousand lives in a lifetime. I write to control the particulars in those lives.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia. — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
“Ir you're a writer, reading is part of your job description. ~ Mark Rubinstein” — Mark Rubinstein Copy Share Image
“Don't read a book to let the time pass...let the time pass to read a book.” — Nicholaa Spencer Copy Share Image
My doctors told me this morning my blood pressure is down so low that I can start reading the newspapers. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
The words are not mere words. They are the breath and mind, perhaps even the soul, of the person who is reading. — Verlyn Klinkenborg Copy Share Image
“Imogen was a bright girl naturally, but she had read so many novels that her brain was completely turned.” — Susan Coolidge Copy Share Image
“I read everyday, because reading takes me away, away to a place where nothing is impossible.” — Manoj Arora Copy Share Image
“She'd been an actress, an artist's model, once or twice a kept woman, through all a voracious reader.” — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
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