I read books all the time, I'm always reading. I'm not like somebody that reads really fast or a lot or anything,… — Christopher Owens Copy Share Image
The dictionary also invites a playful reading. It challenges anyone to sit down with it in an idle moment. There are worse… — Mortimer Adler Copy Share Image
We can all learn from every text. Reading the work that disgusts you can only strengthen your core beliefs. I could teach… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
READING, n. The general body of what one reads. In our country it consists, as a rule, of Indiana novels, short stories… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
It's great to imagine and visualise while reading a novel. It doesn't always work for a film. 'Pavithra' had a good script… — Shriya Saran Copy Share Image
We don't play bridge, golf or tennis. And I guess just about the only thing I'm interested in is reading about, talking… — Ken Berry Copy Share Image
“They will need you to put the right books in their hands, book in which they can lose themselves and books in… — Kylene Beers & Robert E. Probst Copy Share Image
I just wanted a really simple, dramatic way so that fans, people who were reading my comic, would be like, "This is… — David Rees Copy Share Image
When I'm writing, I really want to satisfy myself. I've got a story that I am working on and struggling with, and… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
“We all have a lot more to read than we can read and a lot more to do than we can do.… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
“The most dangerous thing of all, and something he wanted to warn me about above all else, the one thing that had… — Mikael Niemi Copy Share Image
“Here's the thing: the act of reading changes your life, sometimes in large ways, sometimes in small ways, but every book you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I studied Comparative Literature at Cornell. Structuralism was real big then. The idea of reading and writing as being this language game.… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
I remember reading scripts when I started in the business, and [Latino roles] were either nonexistent or written as the maid or… — Eva Mendes Copy Share Image
I went to the big Picasso retrospective at the Tate in the sixties, and I think I went to an Andy Warhol… — Marianne Faithfull Copy Share Image
The reader reads aloud, with a sing-song up … then down … then down again cadence. My mood shifts from merely reluctant… — Gabrielle Hamilton Copy Share Image
Since I make my living as a literary journalist, not a book scout, I spend inordinate amounts of time either reading or… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
The variant readings about which any doubt remains among textual critics of the New Testament affect no material question of historic fact… — F. F. Bruce Copy Share Image
John Kerry spent the day reading to preschoolers ... and the kids said Kerry actually lacked warmth and failed to articulate a… — David Letterman Copy Share Image
A good writer preserves an air of freedom in his prose, so that the reader won't know how a story will end… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
If minds are truly alive they will seek out books, for books are the human race recounting its memorable experiences, confronting its… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A felon could plead "benefit of clergy" and be saved by [reading aloud] what was aptly enough termed the "neck verse", which… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
There are times my stories become - what I feel - not only accessible to hearing me on television, but they make… — Bill Cosby Copy Share Image
The future of English fiction may rest with this Unknown Public - a reading public of three millions which lies right out… — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
Jocelyn recognized reading as a sacred pastime and usually wouldn't interrupt Clary in the middle of a book, even to yell at… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
the process of reading is reciprocal; the book is no more than a formula, to be furnished out with images out of… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
I've gone to readings to see authors after meeting them on Twitter. And while there, I've found myself sitting next to still… — John Searles Copy Share Image
The doors of churches, hotels, concert halls and reading rooms are alike closed against the Negro as a man, but every place… — Ida B. Wells Copy Share Image
“You write out of experience, and a large part of that experience is the life of the spirit; reading is the liberation… — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
A library takes the gift of reading one step further by offering personalized learning opportunities second to none, a powerful antidote to… — Julie Andrews Copy Share Image
A book on cheap paper does not convince. It is not prized, it is like a wheezy doctor with pigtail tobacco breath,… — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
Amid the push to excellence, with its measurement and accountability, it is easy to lose sight of a key ingredient in reading… — Jim Trelease Copy Share Image
When I take up a book I have read before, I know what to expect; the satisfaction is not lessened by being… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
There is only one way to read, which is to browse in libraries and bookshops, picking up books that attract you, reading… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“We as authors sign a pact with our readers; they'll go on reading because they trust us to play fair with them… — Pamela Glass Kelly Copy Share Image
Reading is how I became an actor because I didn't grow up in a house where there was an awareness of film… — Mary Steenburgen Copy Share Image
It was long before I got at the maxim, that in reading an old mathematician you will not read his riddle unless… — Augustus De Morgan Copy Share Image
If anyone spends almost the whole day in reading...he gradually loses the capacity for thinking...This is the case with many learned persons;… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Reading a book is like having the ability to dip a straw into the authors soul and sip and slurp without lowering… — Ash Sweeney Copy Share Image
More and more I'm finding that I'm reading history, I'm reading biography, I'm reading autobiography for a sense of people who've been… — John P. Kotter Copy Share Image