Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
I am positive I was not a neglected child. I remember reading 'The Jungle Book' and 'The Sleeping Beauty. — Keri Russell Copy Share Image
Society needs youngsters with well-developed personalities and not just bookworms. — Kirron Kher Copy Share Image
Usually for me, the melodic structures come out in the water and the lyrical ideas could come from a book I'm reading. — Jon Foreman Copy Share Image
“You could learn to read in a few months, easy, and magic and reading are sort of the same thing.” — Sarah Wynde Copy Share Image
But an experienced reader is also a self-aware and critical reader. I can't remember ever reading a story without judging it. — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
I've tried to stop reading comments online because if you believe everything, it makes you feel like rubbish. — Katie Piper Copy Share Image
I adore watching movies; movie marathons are my favorite pastime. I can watch up to five movies back to back. I also… — Priyanka Chopra Copy Share Image
When I left Iowa, I definitely never wanted to stand in front of a group of academics again and see if they… — Daniel Woodrell Copy Share Image
The so-called paradoxes of an author, to which a reader takes exception, often exist not in the author's book at all, but… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Literature, like anything else, can become a wearisome business if you make a lifetime specialty of it. A healthy, wholesome man would… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
I love inscriptions on flyleaves and notes in margins, I like the comradely sense of turning pages someone else turned, and reading… — Helene Hanff Copy Share Image
“I am addicted to reading, I will never reach the end of my TBR list because it multiplies all by itself. It… — Lani Copy Share Image
At 17, I went to Stanford University to study engineering. My time was occupied with the required reading and the extracurricular duties… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
All reading was done in the early years out loud, there was no such thing as silent reading because you had to… — Nicholas G. Carr Copy Share Image
“You, my reader, who see me close, wonder about my heartbeats and measure my words, you my close friend who know my… — Soar Soaring-Words.com Copy Share Image
I remember reading 'The Grapes of Wrath' in high school in 1983. My family had immigrated to the U.S. three years before,… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
I have learned as much about writing about my people by listening to blues and jazz and spirituals as I have from… — Ernest Gaines Copy Share Image
If the book is good, is about something that you know, and is truly written, and reading it over you see that… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
I love getting fan mail. Often, as a writer, you never know what your readers think of a book... you get critical… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Theoretically, we know that the world turns, but in fact we do not notice it, the earth on which we walk does… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Certainly I had from an early age a sense of the power and beauty of religious texts - the awesome magnitude of… — Ayana Mathis Copy Share Image
“To speak without shame about books we haven’t read, we would thus do well to free ourselves of the oppressive image of… — Pierre Bayard Copy Share Image
