Sometimes to write you need to do more than just appear at your desk-you need to take care of the part of… — Barbara Abercrombie Copy Share Image
Everything we do, our every objective, must be undertaken for the sake of... purity of heart... we must practice the reading of… — John Cassian Copy Share Image
“Read for yourselves, read for the sake of your inspiration, for the sweet turmoil in your lovely head. But also read against… — Adam Zagajewski Copy Share Image
Books seem to me to be pestilent things, and infect all that trade in them...with something very perverse and brutal. Printers, binders,… — John Locke Copy Share Image
I grew up poor in crappy situations... various crappy situations. What kept me sane was reading and music. I had so many… — Corey Taylor Copy Share Image
“Books are the food of the soul. Good and wholesome food given to a hungry body will nourish it, but if the… — Anthony Mary Claret Copy Share Image
“Some people read for instruction, which is praiseworthy, and some for pleasure, which is innocent, but not a few read from habit,… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
This is our story to tell. You’d think for all the reading I do, I would have thought about this before, but… — Jandy Nelson Copy Share Image
I definitely have a Luddite's approach to what's going on. I find that as I get older, I get stupider. For me,… — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
“Last reason for reading horror: it’s a rehearsal for death. It’s a way to get ready. People say there’s nothing sure but… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Is there a secret? Yes. Anaïs Nin and Pauline Réage and Anne Rampling and Erica Jong all knew it. E. L. James… — M.J. Rose Copy Share Image
I was reading a Time magazine interview with an author named Brené Brown. She said, "People that fail seem to ultimately do… — Michael Buble Copy Share Image
“You make me love books and the words inside them, because they talk about you. I know they do, they tell me… — Nema Al-Araby Copy Share Image
The time-use studies also show that employed women spend as much time as nonworking women in direct interactions with their children. Employed… — Sandra Scarr Copy Share Image
“We may be sure that the characteristic blindness of the twentieth century - the blindness about which posterity will ask, "But how… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Yes, I know, shaming, isn't it? I always say you can take the girl out of the 80s, but you can't take… — Louise Mensch Copy Share Image
My children haven't read 'Winter Journal'. They have read some of my work, but I really don't foist it on them. I… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I'm always loath to make generalizations about what is for children and what isn't. Certainly children's literature as a genre has some… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
The Supreme Court of the United States of America will never under any circumstances allow anyone to be stripped of their citizenship… — Joe Scarborough Copy Share Image
I grew up in the midst of poverty but every black kid that I knew could read and write. We have to… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
I have always liked reading biographies. It is the ideal literary genre for someone too prim, like me, to acknowledge a gossipy… — Jill Tweedie Copy Share Image
Reading aloud sounds like a good idea, but honestly, it doesn't work very well. Good dialogue in a book doesn't actually bear… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
Caring. And reading the Bible, learning about God, Jesus, love. He said, 'Bring on the children', 'Imitate the children', 'Be like the… — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
From my foster parents, the Deans, I received the love that was ultimately to strengthen me, even when I had forgotten its… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
Unlike television, reading does not swallow the senses or dictate thought. Reading stimulates the ecology of the imagination. Can you remember the… — Richard Louv Copy Share Image
“ProLiteracy Worldwide’s “President’s Report on the State of Adult Literacy 2006” found that 70 percent of prison inmates in America lacked basic… — Michael Sullivan Copy Share Image
You have with you the book you were reading in the cafe, which you are eager to continue, so that you can… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
Reading, because we control it, is adaptable to our needs and rhythms. We are free to indulge our subjective associative impulse; the… — Sven Birkerts Copy Share Image
Those of us who read carried around with us like martyrs a secret knowledge, a secret joy, and a secret hope: There… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
There is no reason why the profoundest thoughts should not make easy and exciting reading. A profound thought is an exciting thing… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Some read for style, and some for argument: one has little care about the sentiment, he observes only how it is expressed;… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“What you read at Columbia is Plato's Republic and Homer's Iliad. What you learn at Columbia is that reading isn't education. Education… — Ted Rall Copy Share Image
“Why do I read? I just can't help myself. I read to learn and to grow, to laugh and to be motivated.… — Gary Paulsen Copy Share Image
Make sure your characters are worth spending ten hours with. That’s how long it takes to read a book. Reading a book… — Po Bronson Copy Share Image
Authors and publishers want fair compensation and a means of protecting content through digital rights management. Vendors and technology companies want new… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
I doubt if I shall ever have time to read the book again -- there are too many new ones coming out… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We live and breathe words. … It was books that made me feel that perhaps I was not completely alone. They could… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
“An entire life spent reading would have fulfilled my every desire; I already knew that at the age of seven. The texture… — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
The object we call a book is not the real book, but its potential, like a musical score or seed. It exists… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
I can walk into a bookshop and point out a number of books that I find very unattractive in what they say.… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
