“Maybe it's not about the journey but rather the way you imagine the journey when you read a book.” — BeaOngjoco Copy Share Image
I keep reading things about myself that make me seem distant and oddly shy. — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
“Books are the way to stretch out people's souls, and I won't have children with small souls.” — Jodi Lynn Anderson Copy Share Image
My perfect morning is spent drinking coffee, eating porridge and reading the paper at a local cafe. — Anton du Beke Copy Share Image
I was ahead of my classmates in some ways. While they were enjoying Mills & Boons, I was reading Ayn Rand. — Manisha Koirala Copy Share Image
“Another way of remaining in intimacy with God is by remaining in His presence.” — Jaachynma N.E. Agu Copy Share Image
It is curious how tyrannical the habit of reading is, and what shifts we make to escape thinking. There is no bore… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
I have to keep up with the scientific literature as part of my job, but increasingly I found myself reading things that… — Ken Thompson Copy Share Image
Sometimes I feel that a more rational explanation for all that has happened during my lifetime is that I am still only… — Stanislaw Ulam Copy Share Image
There is hardly a pioneer's hut which does not contain a few odd volumes of Shakespeare. I remember reading the feudal drama… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
He really meant to tell them that the big money was not in the individual fluctuations but in the main movements that… — Jesse Lauriston Livermore Copy Share Image
Writing/reading is like visiting another person's brain. And a short book or article is like a short stay. You come in, have… — Mark Manson Copy Share Image
I think the reason I don't read is because, when I'm reading, I feel like I'm missing out on something else. You… — Adam Sandler Copy Share Image
Martin's Monsanto poem holds devastating power. I heard the first public reading at the Resurgence Festival of well-being in London. It brought… — Tony Juniper Copy Share Image
There's the excitement of adding color, which I didn't know anything about until 1997 or so, when I did my first picture… — Jules Feiffer Copy Share Image
It's different in Scotland. People who come to readings are more interested in literature as such, but the readership in general is… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
With the increasingly important role of intelligent machines in all phases of our lives--military, medical, economic and financial, political--it is odd to… — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
“The poem or the discovery exists in two moments of vision: the moment of appreciation as much as that of creation; for… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
If there is any message in the 'Wimpy Kid' books, it is that reading can be and should be fun. As an… — Jeff Kinney Copy Share Image
“I could not give up either of these worlds, neither the book I am holding nor the gleaming forest, though I have… — Barry Lopez Copy Share Image
I do not think reading the mystics would hurt you myself: you say you must avoid books which deal with 'feelings' -… — Evelyn Underhill Copy Share Image
We can create the sensation of community through the accrual of actions, and that's often the clichéd way that storytelling is talked… — Vijay Iyer Copy Share Image