Censors never go after books unless kids already like them. I don’t even think they know to go after books until they… — Judy Blume Copy Share Image
I want people to read good work. If I see someone reading a book by Lorrie Moore or Jennifer Egan, I'm psyched.… — Daniel Alarcon Copy Share Image
I never understood why anyone would do magazines. Like, why would someone put their face out there so much? It's because those… — Elizabeth Olsen Copy Share Image
I went to the library as soon as I could walk. So the training came from reading all kinds of people, from… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
I like a challenging comic as much as the next guy but I feel like I am pretty conservative when it comes… — Charles Forsman Copy Share Image
I can clearly trace my passion for reading back to the Jonesboro, Georgia, library, where, for the first time in my life,… — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
One of those things where immediately when you started reading it, you knew it was something special and then the more you… — Ellen Page Copy Share Image
Doubtless, reading good books benefited me during the months and years of writing, yet I remained skeptical of any tight correlation to… — Thomas Chatterton Williams Copy Share Image
“At some point in reading, we realize we have to read not just the books that we'd enjoy, but the books that… — Nema Al-Araby Copy Share Image
Shakespeares Mother Said to him You are very weak in English If you fail this time,I will not let you continue your… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I find it particularly shocking that people work all week long, and then on the weekend they give their money to another… — Michel Gondry Copy Share Image
“With me, travelling is frankly a vice. The temptation to indulge in it is one which I find almost as hard to… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“In short, the age of the pulp magazine was the last in which youngsters, to get their primitive material, were forced to… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“But as the Count advanced through Essays Eleven, Twelve, and Thirteen, his goal seemed to recede into the distance. It was suddenly… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
Amidst the flood of dangerous reading, I plead for my Master's book; I call upon you not to forget the book of… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
“I regretted my human form briefly; it would be so much easier to drag and rope information into the brain as neatly… — Marilyn Johnson Copy Share Image
But it is impossible, I find, to tidy books without ending by sitting on the floor in the middle of a great… — Elizabeth von Arnim Copy Share Image
“But at other times, I sit here reading in the afternoon, a myrtle in my buttonhole, and there are such beautiful passages… — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
I don't watch a huge amount of telly. I read a lot. I'm reading at the moment 'Freedom,' by Jonathan Franzen, a… — Nick Clegg Copy Share Image
The best way to prepare for a night out with a Shakespearean tragedy is to do a bit of reading up in… — Arthur Smith Copy Share Image
Besides the actual reading in class of many poems, I would suggest you do two things: first, while teaching everything you can… — A. R. Ammons Copy Share Image
“Every profound literary work is a bridge between what we are and what we may become, not just as individuals, but as… — Alok Mishra Copy Share Image
“But, later, coming back and reading what I have produced, I am unable to detect the difference between what came easily and… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“She ate toast in bed, then reread a favorite book, taking comfort from a story where she knew the outcome would be… — Sarah Mayberry Copy Share Image
My friend, Dennis Mathis, was reading Eastern European and Japanese experimental writers, and I brought the Latin American writers to his attention,… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
The mind must be developed by you alone. There is no way for others to do the work and for you to… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
My alma mater is the Chicago Public Library. I got what little educational foundation I got in the third-floor reading room, under… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
But today we become aware of other readings of the human experience very quickly because of the media and the speed with… — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
In the end, what makes a book valuable is not the paper it's printed on, but the thousands of hours of work… — John Green Copy Share Image
Remember that just because major publishing is having trouble, that doesn't mean people have stopped reading books. Printed books won't go away,… — David Morrell Copy Share Image
I'm not altogether certain that a fundamentalism of necessity has to argue that it is the only reading of the human experience… — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
People vary enormously in how they learn. Some learn through their eyes - by reading but also by responding to all kinds… — Warren G. Bennis Copy Share Image
Even in merely reading a fairytale, we must let go our daylight convictions and trust ourselves to be guided by dark figures,… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I don't really listen to music when I work. I really have to focus on one thing at a time. I like… — Shahzia Sikander Copy Share Image
Reading is such a personal thing to me. I'd much rather give someone a gift certificate to a bookstore, and let that… — Erik Larson Copy Share Image
I tell you, the difference for me is between being victimized, terrorized, numbed by reading about different disasters, or reducing the anxiety… — Ted Danson Copy Share Image
Books are health food for your brain and dessert for your soul. Books are one of the few proven sources of mental… — Pat Williams Copy Share Image
My mother used to laugh that if they asked me to clean up my room, I would spend so much time reading… — Ayobami Adebayo Copy Share Image
The BBC is locked to the reading of the economy that is run out of Ed Miliband and Ed Balls' office. They… — Iain Duncan Smith Copy Share Image
My reading life is like an airport where a bunch of planes circle in a holding pattern, then - boom, boom, boom… — Laura Lippman Copy Share Image
