Give yourself to reading.’... You need to read. Renounce as much as you will all light literature, but study as much as… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Every new book I read comes to be a part of that overall and unitary book that is the sum of my… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
It is both relaxing and invigorating to occasionally set aside the worries of life, seek the company of a friendly book...from the… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
“I guess a bit part of serious fiction’s purpose is to give the reader, who like all of us is sort of… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“Maybe I'm reading too much into this. It's probably nothing. But I've had "nothing" for too long, and I'm ready for something… — Beth Revis Copy Share Image
I admit TV is a far cry from the films that I started my career with, like 'Ek Doctor Ki Maut.' It's… — Pankaj Kapur Copy Share Image
This book will take you two days to read. Did you even see the cover? It’s mostly pink. If you’re reading this… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
I was reading through endless junk scripts that were being sent my way. Typically the roles were to play his wife or… — Roma Downey Copy Share Image
Deeply disturbing in a way that only the most honest stories are, YACCUB is a fiercely written, daring journey through America's urban… — Brandon Massey Copy Share Image
A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called "leaves") imprinted with dark pigmented… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Homer and Candy passed by the empty and brightly lit dispensary; they peeked into Nurse Angela's empty office. Homer knew better than… — John Irving Copy Share Image
“Everyone always talks about the magic of books being able to take you to other places, to let you see exotic worlds,… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
“Should he give free reign to his desires, the bibliomaniac can ruin his life along with the lives of his loved ones.… — Mikita Brottman Copy Share Image
“I never could read Foucault. I find philosophy tedious. All of my knowledge comes from reading novels and some history. I read… — Michael Gira Copy Share Image
“Of those of us who comprise the real clan of the book, who read not to judge the reading of others but… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Among those whose reputation is exhausted in a short time by its own luxuriance are the writers who take advantage of present… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“There are books that I own that somehow even without reading them they mean something to me. So I think people have… — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
If you say to me: "Master, it would seem that you weren't too terribly wise to have written these bits of nonsense… — Francois Rabelais Copy Share Image
“Reading always calmed me down: filling my head with other - made up - people's problems and conflicts made my own seem… — Heather James Copy Share Image
If the children already born each have only two children themselves ... in twenty-seven to thirty-five years the population of the world… — Robert Bork Copy Share Image
“Sure, why not?" she said. "You know, you read about a crime in the paper and you think how terrible for the… — Tami Hoag Copy Share Image
As we regularly spend time reading God's Word and talking to Him in prayer, we put ourselves in position for Him to… — Joyce Meyer Copy Share Image
No matter how much we love a book, the experience of reading it isn't complete until we can give it to someone… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
“... and because they were fond of reading, she fancied them satirical: perhaps without exactly knowing what it was to be satirical;… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Orthodoxy is like an abyss of beauty that's just endless. I have read the Bible many times. But after fasting, and being… — Troy Polamalu Copy Share Image
The great enemy of the salvation of man, in my opinion, never invented a more effective means of limiting Christianity from the… — Benjamin Rush Copy Share Image
I want kids to think that reading can be just as much fun and more so than TV or video games or… — Louis Sachar Copy Share Image
“The replacement of independent bookstores by firms such as Barnes & Noble, Waterstones or Borders superficially provided a wide range of reading,… — Sara Ayad Copy Share Image
If the reader enters a kind of immersive experience reading a book, then I have to enter a kind of immersive state… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
I like a book. I like to read for four hours at a stretch. I think very few are the young people… — Lee Smith Copy Share Image
Again, let's pay all due respect to De Palma and put him over here so we're not saying, "Mine's deeper, mine's better."… — Kimberly Peirce Copy Share Image
I'm not an A student; I'm not even a B student, but I've gotten a lot better with the reading because of… — R. Kelly Copy Share Image
“Bring on the controversy. I write real life. It's harsh and sometimes gritty, but it's real. Why should we tip toe around… — Shandy L. Kurth Copy Share Image
Having spent half my time at university studying English literature, I know from experience that reading lists often contain more white men… — Nish Kumar Copy Share Image
It is a very good exercise, at least from a historian's point of view, to imagine oneself a devout pagan while reading… — Ramsay MacMullen Copy Share Image
“I'm not the same reader when I finish a book as I was when I started, brains are tangles of pathways, and… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
“The promised notification was hanging over her head. The postman's knock within the neighbourhood was beginning to bring its daily terrors -and… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I have suffered from bullying in many ways, from bullying in school due to my disability in reading, to digital abuse that… — Bella Thorne Copy Share Image
There is a logic [to my reading], but I can't define it. I like reading impulsively. I collect books, I have a… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
I never read Ford Madox Ford's "The Good Soldier." I've been reading books that I should have read years ago and did… — Stephen Dobyns Copy Share Image