“A good book gets better at the second reading. A great book at the third. Any book not worth rereading isn't worth… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
When you are working on something, you have to believe that people will still be reading when you're done! — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
I grew up reading a lot of these super weird, genre-bending Southern gothic writers. — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
Levitt admits to having the reading interests of a tweener girl, the Twilight series and Harry Potter in particular. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The fact that people are already reading and loving something I wrote is still hard to believe. — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
Write your own book instead of reading someone else's book about success — Herb Brooks Copy Share Image
“Every new book we read in our brief and busy lives means that a classic is left unread.” — B.R. Myers Copy Share Image
I'm always reading plays, and when I find something that I really want to do, then I'll make the time to do… — Stephen Lang Copy Share Image
My role is to promote the authors image and their new books. I'm also brought on board when the author is "between… — Tom Robinson Copy Share Image
My greatest strength as a child, I realize now, was my imagination. While every other kid was reading and writing, I had… — Barbara Corcoran Copy Share Image
Well, I've been reading a lot about the fifty years since the Second World War, about Western foreign policy and all that.… — Thom Yorke Copy Share Image
Reading a good poem can give me a far bigger kick than a novel. But it's not something I can keep doing.… — Stephen Dobyns Copy Share Image
It is absurd to think that the only way to tell if a poem is lasting is to wait and see if… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
“You really love to gossip, don't you?” he asked, wishing she had brought him a glass of wine. “Yes, I suppose I… — Donna Leon Copy Share Image
I am sure everyone has had the experience of reading a book and finding it vibrating with aliveness, with colour and immediacy.… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
I'm 52 years old, which means I'm of an age where my reading habits are more or less set. I read plenty… — Michael Wilbon Copy Share Image
“Some people call reading an escape, but it's not - it's embracing the true reality of the best parts of who we… — Sean Gibson Copy Share Image
“I have dreamed of that song, of the strange words to that simple rhyme-song, and on several occasions I have understood what… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
[I had Bar mitzvah ]it was just me and my mom. And she's celebrating. And she's reading things to me in Hebrew.… — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
“As long as I know there exists in the world someone who does tricks only for the love of the trick, as… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
What does it matter how cultivated and up-to-date we are, or how many thousands of books we’ve read? What matters is how… — Gabriel Zaid Copy Share Image
“The novelist’s happy discovery was to think of substituting for those opaque sections, impenetrable by the human spirit, their equivalent in immaterial… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Coleridge wrote a poem called ‘The Eolian Harp,’ in which he explored the notion of music slumbering on its instrument. It's a… — Amal El-Mohtar Copy Share Image
The one man who should never attempt an explanation of a poem is its author. If the poem can be improved by… — Archibald MacLeish Copy Share Image
When I say to a parent, "read to a child", I don't want it to sound like medicine. I want it to… — Mem Fox Copy Share Image
“Your status has changed. Your Name is changed! You are a new creation.” — Jaachynma N.E. Agu Copy Share Image
No man can be called friendless who has God and the companionship of good books. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
Since reading 'Sophie's Choice,' I have been haunted by the agonizing idea of choosing between two children. — Fiona Barton Copy Share Image
Most gyms now have TVs. You can prop up reading material on the cardio equipment. — Anderson Cooper Copy Share Image
Given how few young people actually read the newspaper, it's a good thing they'll be reading a newspaper on a screen. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
If I had found the words I was looking for, I would not have read so much. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
I learned to be a regional writer by reading people like Flannery O'Connor. She was a huge influence. — David Almond Copy Share Image
“I love when I finish reading a chapter that I wrote and my cheeks hurt from smiling and all I can utter… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“I felt a mixture of hallowness at seeing the end of a world, and satisfaction at getting to witness that world's completion.” — singNsong Copy Share Image
I love running, swimming and riding, sleeping and eating, reading and loving things that everybody likes — Nastassja Kinski Copy Share Image
Reading a piece of poetry with no beat in front of 20 people is way more challenging than rocking for 10,000 people. — Macklemore Copy Share Image
“He liked bookstores, and libraries too. They had a sacred, peaceful hush, like graveyards without the shadow of death.” — Garrett Leigh Copy Share Image
Anybody who is afraid of reading a page of text is not the reader that I want. — Rick Remender Copy Share Image
the slight sense of degeneracy induced by reading novels before luncheon — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
I never met an author who admitted that people did not buy his book because it was dull. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image