It is thanks to my evening reading alone that I am still more or less sane. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Parents should leave books lying around marked ‘forbidden’ if they want their children to read. — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
I love reading. I spend a huge amount of time travelling on planes and have always got a book on the go. — Ben Fogle Copy Share Image
I had walked into that reading-room a happy, healthy man. I crawled out a decrepit wreck. — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
“I propose that every person out of work be required to submit a book report before he or she gets his or… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Weak minds may be injured by novel-reading; but sensible people find both amusement and instruction therein. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
“My library was where I liked to relax because reading had always been my escape.” — L.P. Dover Copy Share Image
When a movie based on a book comes out, people always say that the book is always better than the movie. So… — Mannie Fresh Copy Share Image
I love being home, reading the paper in the morning and having a cup of coffee, doing laundry, going grocery shopping and… — Tristan Prettyman Copy Share Image
When I was working on my career, I was very aware of what I had done, what I wanted to do next.… — Kurt Russell Copy Share Image
“principles of reading: reduce articles to their essence, read and write in the same day, subscribe to journals, and learn to skim.” — Wendy Laura Belcher Copy Share Image
It was the courts, of course, that took away prayer from our schools, that took away Bible reading from our schools. It's… — Rod Parsley Copy Share Image
My mom would keep all kinds of materials in her classroom for children for reading. She kept comic books, newspapers, sports magazines,… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
J.L. Moreno was a pioneer of twentieth-century theater and psychotherapy. A remarkable work, Impromptu Man should be required reading for therapists and… — Jeffrey K. Zeig Copy Share Image
In the electronic age, books, words and reading are not likely to remain sufficiently authoritative and central to knowledge to justify literature. — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
Hence, instead of Man Thinking, we have the bookworm. Hence, the book-learned class, who value books, as such; not as related to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The truth is . . . that the great artists of the world are never puritans, and seldom ever ordinarily respectable. No… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
When you're reading a novel, I think the reason you care about how any given plot turns out is that you take… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
And maybe it would have bitten you in half," said Will. "What you are describing, the transformation into a demon, is the… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Reading the very best writers—let us say Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, Tolstoy—is not going to make us better citizens. Art is perfectly useless,… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
Reading good literature is an experience of pleasure...but it is also an experience of learning what and how we are, in our… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
There is no shortage of good days. It is good lives that are hard to come by. A life of good days… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
“Why do you think people stopped reading? We read to connect with other minds. But why read when you're busy writing, describing… — Alena Graedon Copy Share Image
