What's a book? Everything or nothing. The eye that sees it all. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
I think the part I enjoy most is reading the scripts and screening films because I'm a bookworm and a movie buff. — Rebecca Eaton Copy Share Image
This is not about money or anything other than the pleasure of reading for people who want to read it. — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
“If you don't love what you write, then nobody's going to enjoy reading it.” — T.A. Uner Copy Share Image
One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“We are not such fools as to pay for reading inferior books, when we can read superior books for nothing.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I read that heavy drinking is bad for your health. I decided I better stop reading. — Charles Barkley Copy Share Image
I always want to read Gore Vidal's nonfiction. Because everything he writes is an essay and it's worth reading. — Frederick Busch Copy Share Image
In fourth grade, I learned that reading was serious business, not just a pleasant way to pass the time, and that like… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
“I love ebooks. I love the idea of storing books in “The Cloud”, because honestly, reading and rainy days go together like… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
With 'Nip/Tuck,' I had never even done anything before I got on that show. They created that character for me. I was… — Valerie Cruz Copy Share Image
I'm reading a bunch of fiction by Afghan and Iraq War veterans for a New Yorker piece. There hasn't been that much,… — George Packer Copy Share Image
As you know from reading many of these Negro writers, we don't deal too much with the discussion of democracy and what… — Stanley Crouch Copy Share Image
I'm reading a manuscript by Rodney Jones, "Village Prodigies",it's one of the best contemporary poetry books I've ever read ever. — Stephen Dobyns Copy Share Image
I've purposely stayed away from reading much about postmodern theory, and most everything I have read just bored me to tears. I… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
When you feel loss, no motivation and no power, you should keep calm and reading, or reading to keep calm to renew… — Sara Zhou Copy Share Image
Reading is merely a surrogate for thinking for yourself; it means letting someone else direct your thoughts. Many books, moreover, serve merely… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Graham Wallas has reminded us that writing as compared with speaking involves an impression at the second remove and reading an impression… — Harold Innis Copy Share Image
“The characteristics of this kind of reading are perhaps summed up in the word “orthodox,” which is almost always applicable. The word… — Mortimer J. Adler Copy Share Image
Reading, for me, is like this: consumptive, pleasing, calming, as much as edifying. It's how I feel after a good dinner. That's… — Tara Bray Smith Copy Share Image
Gary Shteyngart has written a memoir for the ages. I spat laughter on the first page and closed the last with wet… — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
I've learned mainly by reading myself. So I don't think I have any original ideas. Certainly, I talk about reading Graham. I've… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Given the lack of public skills in reading photographs, given that photographic content is sometimes buried in beauty, contemporary landscape photographers are… — Lucy R. Lippard Copy Share Image
If you look back in history, as the barbarians were invading the gates of Rome, people were consulting fortunetellers and worrying about… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image