True religion comes not front the teaching of men or the reading of books; it is the awakening of the spirit within… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they really happened and after you are finished reading one… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
I love graphic novels - I love reading them, I enjoyed writing them, I would love to go back and do them… — John Ridley Copy Share Image
Summertime, and the reading is easy... Well, maybe not easy, exactly, but July and August are hardly the months to start working… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
I am so sorry to see the state of reading in such decline. I think it says something really scary and terrible… — Lee Smith Copy Share Image
I grew up on Stephen King, reading the books. I love the small town, 1950s feel to it, that nostalgia, and that… — Alexander Koch Copy Share Image
One of the things that is interesting about reading conspiracy theory is that much of what folks think is conspiracy is really… — Catherine Austin Fitts Copy Share Image
There's so much power in allegory, to form ideas and learn lessons that you can actually take and apply to real life.… — Amandla Stenberg Copy Share Image
“The endless piles of genre fiction are the key to happiness. They’re the key to picking out the things that actually make… — Steven Lloyd Wilson Copy Share Image
“But the thing that made it most interesting is what it had to say about books and religion. I love how Brooks… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
My folks tried to make a preacher of me and missed by a narrow margin… I would have made a good one… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
On a very personal level, I have fond memories of spending a lot of time in the Library of Congress working on… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
I think the act of reading imbues the reader with a sensitivity toward the outside world that people who don't read can… — John Connolly Copy Share Image
“At home, I mainly used to read. I wished to stifle with external sensations all that was ceaselessly boiling up inside me.… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“Hear me now or regret it later: Everything you write must be read aloud. Once all the context items are in place,… — Jiro Adachi Copy Share Image
There's a culture war in this country. Americans in recent years, as you know, have become more secular. They don't go to… — Tom Gjelten Copy Share Image
Theres really not much that people can pick on me for my work, so obviously they find other reasons to write something… — Sonakshi Sinha Copy Share Image
I do most of my reading on the train ride to and from work. But I always have a book in my… — Randa Abdel-Fattah Copy Share Image
Maybe television causes cancer, Garp thinks; but his real irritation is a writer's irritation: he knows that wherever the TV glows, there… — John Irving Copy Share Image
Literature is the safe and traditional vehicle through which we learn about the world and pass on values from on generation to… — Laurie Anderson Copy Share Image
To lead by example is to offer your life as a living diarry for others to read. Never make your life pages… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“For once the disease of reading has laid upon the system it weakens it so that it falls an easy prey to… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Excessively narrow reading is unhelpful, certainly. Reading only Serious Literature is no better than reading only trash in this respect. — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
I tell writers to keep reading, reading, reading. Read widely and deeply. And I tell them not to give up even after… — Anita Diament Copy Share Image
My mother brought us to the library every week, and I read a lot. That's what kept me company. I went from… — Julianne Moore Copy Share Image
I was very lucky to have a father who read to us when we were children. And he didn't just read books… — Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall Copy Share Image
I never remain passive in the process of reading: while I read I am engaged in a constant creative activity, which leads… — Nikolai Berdyaev Copy Share Image
Before I went to bed, I sat up till 2 a-clock in my chamber, reading of Mr. Hooke's Microscopical Observations, the most… — Samuel Pepys Copy Share Image
To me, reading through old letters and journals is like treasure hunting. Somewhere in those faded, handwritten lines there is a story… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
“You may not know this about me, but deep in my little rule following heart there is a rebel who doesn't like… — Shannon Reed Copy Share Image
At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
I think about Chilean literature as a family, because I grew up reading the literature of my country. I feel like I… — Alejandro Zambra Copy Share Image
If a child is going to grow into a truly special adult–someone who thinks, considers other points of view, has an open… — Rafe Esquith Copy Share Image
I write constantly, but only in my journals. I have three of them: one for travel, one for home, and one I… — Cameron Diaz Copy Share Image
I never envisioned when I was reading that comic as a 17-year-old that I would have the opportunity to actually play the… — Karl Urban Copy Share Image
Writing, playing, composing, painting, reading, listening, looking-all require that we submit to being swept away by Eros, to a transformation of self… — Stephen Nachmanovitch Copy Share Image
Probably induced by the asthma, I started reading and writing early on, my literary efforts from the age of about nine running… — Patrick White Copy Share Image
Free voluntary reading results in better reading comprehension, writing style, vocabulary, spelling, and grammatical development — Stephen D. Krashen Copy Share Image
The World is not enough used to this way of writing, to the moment. It knows not that in the minutiae lie… — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
I was a 'reverence for life' man - 'see life steadily and see it whole' - in my days as a lecturer… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
