Libraries are a consistent and major source of books for free reading. — Stephen D. Krashen Copy Share Image
“Multa legas facito, perlectis neglege multa: Nan miranda canunt, sed non credenda poetae.” — Dionysius Cato Copy Share Image
“Reading is a sojourn that takes you round the world without having to move a feet.” — Sravani Saha Nakhro Copy Share Image
“And all I did was read, and when I was too high to read I stared out the windows.” — Junot Díaz Copy Share Image
There is nothing more distressing or tiresome than a writer standing in front of an audience and reading his work. — William Gaddis Copy Share Image
It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method. — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
The prefect evening...lying down on the couch beside the bookcase and reading himself sleepy...Jim lying opposite him at the other end of… — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
“Part of the great wonder of reading is that it has the ability to make human beings feel more connected to one… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
When I was 20, political music was the uncoolest thing on earth. But when Bush got elected, that was the first time… — Bjork Copy Share Image
If we're trying to excite young people about reading, we need to be experiencingbookjoy ourselves so that we have references to make.… — Pat Mora Copy Share Image
One of the maddening ironies of writing books is that it leaves so little time for reading others'. My bedside is piled… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
But reading is not idleness?it is the passive, receptive side of civilization without which the active and creative world would be meaningless.… — Stephen Spender Copy Share Image
For someone who loves literature, and all books on principle, being asked to name three titles over a half century of serious… — Thomas Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Reading is not just about learning to recognize and pronounce words, but also about how to hear and understand them... It is… — Marcus Borg Copy Share Image
“...this blessing of loneliness was not really loneliness. Real loneliness was something unendurable. What one wanted when exhausted by the noise and… — Elizabeth Goudge Copy Share Image
I never thought I'd be doing poetry books. I never really studied poetry. But the first one I did was after my… — Caroline Kennedy Copy Share Image
I hadn't learned to read by third grade, which wasn't unusual for some kids. I knew something was wrong because I couldn't… — Barbara Corcoran Copy Share Image
Learning to pause is the first step in the practice of Radical Acceptance. A pause is a suspension of activity, a time… — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
“The books my mother read and reread provided a broader, more adventurous world, and escape from the confines of her chronic illness.… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
What is literature, and why do I try to write about it? I don’t know. Likewise, I don’t know why I go… — M. John Harrison Copy Share Image
The deep-read is when you get gut-hooked and dragged overboard down and down through the maze of print and find, to your… — Tim Wynne-Jones Copy Share Image
Children's reading and children's thinking are the rock-bottom base upon which this country will rise. Or not rise. In these days of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
No amount of reading and intelligent deduction could supplant the direct experience. — John Fowles Copy Share Image
How do you know that you are not part of a book? That someone's not reading your story right now? — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“When she was reading, she didn’t just leave her own life behind, she stepped into someone else’s.” — Sarah Morgan Copy Share Image
In reading, the mind is, in fact, only the playground of another's thoughts. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“One day, I'll sit down with all my books around me, and just start reading.” — Ann-Marie MacDonald Copy Share Image
When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls. — John Berger Copy Share Image
I never really took a proper art class in college. I just started reading art magazines and going to galleries. — Larry Gagosian Copy Share Image
Reading reviews makes you thin-skinned. It's like waves washing layers off your skin. — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
I was always reading those beauty magazines and wanting to become this unattainable thing. — Jennifer Aniston Copy Share Image
Let's put in place programs to ensure that all of our children are reading by third grade. — Valerie Jarrett Copy Share Image
Reading messed with my brain in an unaccountable way. It made me happy; or something. — Salvatore Scibona Copy Share Image
Prayer purifies us, reading instructs us. Both are good when both are possible. Otherwise, prayer is better than reading. — Isidore of Seville Copy Share Image
“This is what I want for my students, to lose and find themselves in books.” — Donalyn Miller Copy Share Image
There is nothing more important than staying alert, reading your opponent, that counts for both inside and outside the ring. — Bernard Hopkins Copy Share Image
