When I was nine I spent a lot of my time reading books about the history of comedy, or listening to the… — Paul Merton Copy Share Image
“Ignorance must be prosecuted when arrested. The only way for its arrest is by information and the only way for prosecution is… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Do not believe that a book is good, if in reading it thou dost not become more contented with thy existence, if… — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
I am personally not a lover of audiobooks in general, and I am indeed one of those people who don't count listening… — Emilie Autumn Copy Share Image
I remember that already as a child I was often intensely interested in things, obsessed by ideas and projects in many areas,… — Christiane Nusslein-Volhard Copy Share Image
Reading a book about management isn't going to make you a good manager any more than a book about guitar will make… — Drew Houston Copy Share Image
My preferred genre of reading is crime thrillers - books by Harlan Coben, Jo Nesbo, David Baldacci, James Patterson, Ashwin Sanghi and… — Ravi Subramanian Copy Share Image
“She didn't really enjoy reading but she liked how the books were clues. Each one a piece in a puzzle. Even when… — Max Barry Copy Share Image
Every time I read anything, whether it be a book, a script or anything, I automatically imagine myself as the boy in… — Josh Hutcherson Copy Share Image
As a grad student and later as a writer, I have found it hard to sustain the pure, almost erotic love of… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
I actually dislike, more than many people, working through literary allusion. I just feel that there's something a bit snobbish or elitist… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
With those organizations, it's like time travel. I just reach back and find little kids who were like me. Maybe the circumstances… — Malik Yusef Copy Share Image
“Reading is one of the main things I do. Reading is everything. Reading makes me feel I’ve accomplished something, learned something, become… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
The mother memories that are closest to my heart are the small gentle ones that I have carried over from the days… — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
Libraries are not just for reading in, but for sociable thinking, exploring, exchanging ideas and falling in love. They were never silent.… — Ben Macintyre Copy Share Image
Don't let this Ramadan be just a holiday of rituals. Don't finish reading the Quran without it transforming you. Don't feed your… — Yasmin Mogahed Copy Share Image
I think one of the reasons I'm so thrilled with writing is because it is an act of reading for me at… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
I am only conscious of any satisfaction in Scientific Reading or thinking when it rounds off into a poetical generality and vagueness. — Wilfred Owen Copy Share Image
Reading is the basic springboard for learning. And books provide the liftoff. They are the great equalizer, opening up new worlds to… — Mary Pope Osborne Copy Share Image
So it is with children who learn to read fluently and well: They begin to take flight into whole new worlds as… — William James Copy Share Image
To slide into the domed reading room at ten each morning, specially in summer, off the hot street outside, was a sensation… — Helen Garner Copy Share Image
In my downtime, you'll mostly find me curled up with a book. I love reading biographies. My favourites are those of Dalai… — Madhur Bhandarkar Copy Share Image
All the books I was reading as a teenager were about individuals having adventures. So I thought that was what writers were… — Patrick deWitt Copy Share Image
Sometimes you're reading something, and you don't know it will be important in your life. You're reading this script, and you start… — Annette Bening Copy Share Image
I always try to incorporate something in every book that I've never used before. Hopefully, spontaneity will keep readers reading. — Sandra Brown Copy Share Image
Reading reassures us that no matter how alone we might feel, there are many others - spread as wide as history itself… — Simon Van Booy Copy Share Image
Like many writers, I'm usually more interested in reading about authors than their actual works. We're more curious to know how they… — Hallgrimur Helgason Copy Share Image
I've always been more natural at doing hosting things: reading teleprompters, taking direction and ask-ing questions... I'm actually able to perform a… — Vinny Guadagnino Copy Share Image
The readings of Soviet society are as many as the experts you speak to. In my view, it's a society that is… — E. P. Thompson Copy Share Image
I am reading six books at once, the only way of reading; since, as you will agree, one book is only a… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
When you're younger and you see something that really speaks to you, it's indelible in a way that's not the same as… — Nina Jacobson Copy Share Image
“That's my point: if you own thirty or more books, or you are reading any book at this moment, you may protest… — Thomas Geoghegan Copy Share Image
I read most often when I am on the road, travelling on my journeys. In cars, on planes, trains... I'm very lucky… — Steve Backshall Copy Share Image
reading is a private act, private even from the person who wrote the book. Once the novel is out there, the author… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
I find it an absolute pleasure to read travel guides, especially the Michelin guides, and their description of places I know I'll… — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. The English reading public explains the… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
I feel like the books that I'm reading at any given time will really help me with my work, because it's just… — Ellie Bamber Copy Share Image
We read five words on the first page of a really good novel and we begin to forget that we are reading… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I turned down the first script offered to me, and the second. I lay on my back one day under an umbrella,… — Conrad Veidt Copy Share Image
When I start to write, words have become physical presence. It was to see if I could bring that private world to… — John McGahern Copy Share Image
