I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“An attentive reader will always learn more, and more quickly, from good authors than from life.” — Hervé Le Tellier Copy Share Image
I don't think of literature as an end in itself. It's just a way of communicating something. — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“God takes us through life's journey. Always nudging our Spirits to go for plus and shun the minus.” — Agu Jaachynma N E Copy Share Image
Force yourself to reflect on what you read, paragraph by paragraph. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
The flood of print has turned reading into a process of gulping rather than savoring. — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
In the compact between novelist and reader, the novelist promises to lie, and the reader promises to allow it. — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
“Reading doesn't mean accepting everything you read, it means reasoning everything you read.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
'Just looking at pictures' used to be considered cheating. No longer. The graphic novel is booming. Comics, heavily illustrated texts, books with… — Jon Scieszka Copy Share Image
“Each book was like an underwater cave, and when I rose again to the surface, I was pale and grumpy, resentful of… — Mary Stewart Atwell Copy Share Image
“Like a penny over time, reading ten pages a day would compound, just like that, and create inside you a ten-million-dollar bank… — Jeff Olson Copy Share Image
At Juilliard, suddenly I was reading these great plays that could articulate the ways I was feeling in the Marine Corps, and… — Adam Driver Copy Share Image
My dad and my brother took me over to England a few times to train with various clubs. My brother basically ended… — Gylfi Sigurdsson Copy Share Image
If you want to know why the towers of American capitalism are crumbling, I recommend reading 'The Creature from Jekyll Island' by… — Robert Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
If you carry a paperback book in your back pocket, but spend more time on your hair than you do reading it,… — Dov Davidoff Copy Share Image
I don't want to be in my car all day. I love getting up in the morning in Venice and walking my… — Jessica Chastain Copy Share Image
It might be helping to explore a story visually by going to see a museum exhibit that's relevant to something that somebody's… — Emma Walton Hamilton Copy Share Image
In 1966 Rolf Edberg wrote "This is mankind's home", "in the narrow borderland between the deathly heat beneath our feet and the… — Margot Wallstrom Copy Share Image
“I think that there have been displays of an impoverished reading of the book. I get the distinct feeling at times that… — Joshua Ferris Copy Share Image
The first comic I can remember ever reading was a 'Fantastic Four' issue that my dad bought out of the drugstore once.… — Charles Soule Copy Share Image
The most difficult thing about living as a writer is precisely 'having to write.' Pretending to be a writer is easy. Living… — Kim Young-ha Copy Share Image
If I want to spend the rest of my life reading one day's output of information, which is about what it would… — Harold Evans Copy Share Image
I took Eugene Sue's Arthur from the reading-room. It's indescribable, enough to make you vomit. You have to read this to realize… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“Books are the safest and greatest mind-altering substances in the world. But be safe; don't read and drive.” — H.E. Fairbanks Copy Share Image
Books are like mirrors: if a fool looks in, you cannot expect a genius to look out. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I read, and, in reading, lifted the Curtains of the Impossible that blind the mind, and looked out into the unknown.” — William Hope Hodgson Copy Share Image
“A book?" he asked. "Yeah, remember before television and computers we used to do this thing called reading?” — Janet Evanovich Copy Share Image
Reading a book you are not enjoying is a torture not to be undertaken without a reward. I leave plays at the… — Mariella Frostrup Copy Share Image
Reading supplies bread for imagination to feed on and bones for it to chew on. — Alex Faickney Osborn Copy Share Image
“We do not learn for the benefit of anyone, we learn to unlearn ignorance.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
People in my town were not that into reading, but the overblown way Texans told stories was important. — Joe R. Lansdale Copy Share Image
There's no better reading experience than going to the place where a text was written. — Kenzaburo Oe Copy Share Image
“Five more minutes of reading this and she'd have been in a coma.” — Kelly Armstrong Copy Share Image
If the critics are right that I've made all my decisions based on polls, then I must not be very good at… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“Good books and bad books, like people, are part and parcel of life. Keep reading, books and people.” — Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma Copy Share Image
Pray and learn to pray! Deepen your knowledge of the Word of the Living God by reading and meditating on the Scriptures. — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Accurate reading on a wide range of subjects makes the scholar; careful selection of the better makes the saint. — John of Salisbury Copy Share Image
Librarians have always been among the most thoughtful and helpful people. They are teachers without a classroom. — Willard Scott Copy Share Image
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