I don't think of literature as an end in itself. It's just a way of communicating something. — Isabel Allende 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
The questions I would have liked to ask people were: ‘Are you in love? What are you reading? — Francoise Sagan Copy Share Image
The flood of print has turned reading into a process of gulping rather than savoring. — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
Force yourself to reflect on what you read, paragraph by paragraph. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge 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
“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
“Reading doesn't mean accepting everything you read, it means reasoning everything you read.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
Public swimming pools, recreation centers, summer reading programs, youth jobs programs - they are all shutting their doors. And they are all… — Darell Hammond Copy Share Image
People are starting to refer to 'The Giver' as a classic, but I don't know how that is defined. But if it… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
Discovering various economists, economic works, reading financial periodicals and keeping up on current events in geopolitics and economics around the world opened… — Kurt Bills Copy Share Image
“Despite all of my moaning and groaning about the romantic disasters that continued to befall me, I knew if I were ever… — Joyce Elbert Copy Share Image
I'm never ashamed to read a book twice or as many times as I want. We never expect to drink a glass… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
Poker is really about reading people. What happens when you bluff? What does it look like when the other guy bluffs? Does… — Phil Hellmuth Copy Share Image
Even worse than seeing women's privacy violated on social media is reading the accompanying comments that show such a lack of empathy. — Emma Watson Copy Share Image
In Among the White Moon Faces, I wrote about my desire to be a writer as rooted in my obsessive hours of… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
I love bookshelves, and stacks of books, spines, typography, and the feel of pages between my fingertips. I love bookmarks, and old… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
Much of my reading time over the last decade and a half has been spent reading aloud to my children. Those children's… — Louise Brown Copy Share Image
The only thing I would want to say is that storytelling is ancient; it's something that everybody does. Kids mustn't be in… — Natalie Babbitt Copy Share Image
Be faithful to the time spent in prayer and make sure that at least half of your prayer is spent in silence.… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
There are a few critics overseas, and occasionally a critic will write an astute analysis of the movie. There is value in… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
My mom taught me to read when I was two or three. When I was five I read and wrote well enough… — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
“The great opposition to reading is what I allow to fill my time instead of reading. To say we have no time… — James Emery White Copy Share Image
“It is a mistake to read too many good books when quite young. A man once told me that he had read… — Winston S. Churchill Copy Share Image
