Reading is a huge effort for many people, a bore for others, and, believe it or not, many people prefer watching TV. — Hugh Mackay Copy Share Image
I'm a real geek. I love spending time researching a character and reading about them. — Felicity Jones Copy Share Image
“Who needs a stupid grampa-loving, book-reading, good-smelling boy who I like to talk to?” — Cecil Castellucci Copy Share Image
I don't like reading scripts very much. I like it better for someone to just explain to me what it is about… — Judi Dench Copy Share Image
Physically I'm tired at the end of the day and quite glad to be reading in bed by midnight — Bob Geldof Copy Share Image
I've been reading a book lately. That book is Thom Yorke, and the conclusion is that he's brilliant. — Thom Yorke Copy Share Image
PALMISTRY, n. The 947th method . . . of obtaining money by false pretences [by] "reading character" in the wrinkles [of] the… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching… — Ben Hecht Copy Share Image
“Now, 75 years [after To Kill a Mockingbird ], in an abundant society where people have laptops, cell phones, iPods, and minds… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
You've got to marinate your head, in that time and culture. You've got to become them." (Speaking about researching, and reading, and… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
“People are like mugs with different handles. Some can be held by their emotions; others by their logic, passions, desires or dreams” — S.E. SEVER Copy Share Image
“Because that’s the thing about reading / books. For all their vulnerabilities and lack of pull relative to screens, reading / books… — Junot Díaz Copy Share Image
People feel compelled to continue reading and hearing the news. Sometimes, you just want somebody to be yelling at it with you… — Alexandra Petri Copy Share Image
Reading and watching movies are the only two things I do. I'm moody, so at times I'm annoyingly introverted; at other times… — Sriti Jha Copy Share Image
I like to read first thing in the morning. I'm addicted to the Kindle. I read a lot of business books, because… — Matt Mullenweg Copy Share Image
I've never done a big series like 'Game of Thrones' before. All I knew was that it was HBO, and I'd seen… — Liam Cunningham Copy Share Image
It is important to learn from other women. We have a lot to offer and to learn from each other out of… — Hazel Hawke Copy Share Image
There's a certain time in the core of making a movie from pre-production to halfway through post-production I don't read any project,… — Ang Lee Copy Share Image
The other book that I worry no one reads anymore is James Joyce's Ulysses. It's not easy, but every page is wonderful… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
A friend of mine had his own theatre company, and he jumped me in like I was in a gang. And once… — David Alan Grier Copy Share Image
“Has it ever struck you as odd, or unfortunate, that today, when the proportion of literacy is higher than it has ever… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
“Instead of a book, what if we're actually writing (or not writing) in the margins of our lives? What if our lives… — Patti Digh Copy Share Image
“Daca am citi doar ce citesc si altii ,am ajunge sa gandim ca toata lumea.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Being aware is a lot more than just reading a couple of news articles and talking about it on your preferred social… — Noelle Scaggs Copy Share Image
Sometimes I read read as read when its actually supposed to be read as read. I want to cry. — Ramandeep Singh Copy Share Image
I grew up reading genre writers, and to the degree that Eric Ambler and Graham Greene are genre writers, I'm a genre… — Alan Furst Copy Share Image
If I had to give up reading or give up listening to music, I suspect I'd stick with the music. — Charles Frazier Copy Share Image
“I often say that reading and writing saved my life. I mean that quite literally.” — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
Book love is something like romantic love. When we are reading a really great book, burdens feel lighter, cares seem smaller. — Steve Leveen Copy Share Image
We teach reading, writing and math by [having students do] them. But we teach democracy by lecture. — Shelley Berman Copy Share Image
To read means to borrow; to create out of one s readings is paying off one's debts. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
“Don't cry while you are reading the book wait until you are done reading it.” — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
All ballet, all reading, all music. That was my world, my inner world, — Natalia Makarova Copy Share Image
“To whom do books belong? The books we read and the books we write are both ours and not ours. They're also… — Pamela Paul Copy Share Image
“A fortress built long ago, Walls made timeless by historic glory. The small girl in the boat slows, To listen to its… — Rachel Lewis Copy Share Image
Whenever you read a good book, somewhere in the world a door opens to allow in more light. — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
“Libraries will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no libraries.” — Anne Herbert Copy Share Image