“We're at once alone and in close company: this is the great gift of the novel, the element that makes reading more… — Brenda Walker Copy Share Image
After all my years of playing soldiers, and then of reading History, I have almost a mania to be in the East,… — Wilfred Owen Copy Share Image
Happiness is not always reading the same page in the same book. Sometimes it is just wanting to hold the others book… — Faye Hall Copy Share Image
I think I write what's interesting to me, and so if I'm reading I like to have a very thorough idea of… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
If you wish to be a lawyer, attach no consequence to the place you are in, or the person you are with;… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Babies are born with the instinct to speak, the way spiders are born with the instinct to spin webs. You don't need… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I've always loved reading diaries and memoirs and just getting a sense of different personalities and what made them tick as individuals. — Margaret MacMillan Copy Share Image
“To be the best, you have to be willing to do what nobody does. And today, if nobody reads and nobody works… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“Choosing a book is so gratifying, it’s worth dragging out the process, starting even before finishing the current one. As the final… — Pamela Paul Copy Share Image
A comic will always be more 'personal' than a DVD or CD, both of which require electronic 'players' to decode their content.… — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
If someone does learn about the world from reading a novel of mine, that makes me very happy. It's probably not what… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Novels need readers of a certain kind, people who are patient and enjoy immersing themselves in another perspective for uninterrupted stretches of… — Zia Haider Rahman Copy Share Image
When you have so many projects to nurture, one or two get real excited and raise their hands. The reaction from it… — Frank Wildhorn Copy Share Image
You have to seduce the reader, manipulate their mind and heart, listen to the music of language. I sometimes think of prose… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
I still have a struggle reading (dyslexia, fh) and so I don't read much.. ..Probably the only reason I'm painter is because… — Robert Rauschenberg Copy Share Image
It is in general true that in order to create works of art one has to have leisure. On the other hand… — Marianne Moore Copy Share Image
I was reading books about the Nazi presence not only in Argentina, but all over Latin America, and time and after time… — Lucia Puenzo Copy Share Image
Most of the time what I am reading is leadership books, books on the mind and a lot of deep stuff about… — Tobias Harris Copy Share Image
Now that I was compelled to think about it, reading was something that just came to me, as learning to fasten the… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
Fracking is our biggest enemy right now in the U.S. Actually, not just in the U.S., because all our water systems are… — Ian Somerhalder Copy Share Image
“But I’ve developed a great reputation for wisdom by ordering more books than I ever had time to read, and reading more… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“Keep reading! Keep travelling! Keep thinking! And finally you will be there, in the Land of Wisdom where the mind has the… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
Protect your voice and your vision. If going on the Internet and reading Internet reviews is bad for you, don’t do it.… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man,… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“He paused, then added, "Some of them are working very hard indeed." "What are they doing?" "My boy!" he said, eyebrows raised.… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
Reading well makes children more interesting both to themselves and others, a process in which they will develop a sense of being… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
“The words that strike us are those that awake an echo in a zone we have already made our own—the place where… — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
My routine consists of being awake by 6 A.M., reading and educating myself more and more on the Bible followed by nine… — Manny Ramirez Copy Share Image
Children learn to read by being in the presence of books. The love of knowledge comes with reading and grows upon it.… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
To solve the drug problem, we have to start at the root - first grade. If a boy has all the toys… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“How would it be after the last sentence? The last sentence he had always feared and from the middle of a book,… — Pascal Mercier Copy Share Image
Life is hard, and a lot of people come home tired from work. If they're gonna spend half an hour reading, they… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
It is always a poor way of reading the hearts of others to try to conceal our own. [Fr., C'est toujours un… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
We are always doing something, talking, reading, listening to the radio, planning what next. The mind is kept naggingly busy on some… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
There's so much about Dolly Parton that every female artist should look to, whether it's reading her quotes or reading her interviews… — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
I'm trying to start reading books that you gain knowledge from in order to challenge myself more. As a rule, I tend… — Konnie Huq Copy Share Image
I think I have done well, if I have acquired a new word from a good author; and my business with him… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I needed to really pursue music and learn what I needed to learn on my own by getting in and doing it,… — Kacey Musgraves Copy Share Image
“The pleasure of this sort of life-bookish, she supposed it might be called, a reading life- had made her isolation into a… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
Reading is an act of civilization; it's one of the greatest acts of civilization because it takes the free raw material of… — Ben Okri Copy Share Image