Read as much as you possibly can. Nothing will help you as much as reading. — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
One way of reading my life is that I have been in constant search for a father. — Christine Keeler Copy Share Image
Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge. — John Wesley Copy Share Image
So there's this girl .. She's beautifull and she's reading this ... right now ! — Nathaniel Aveyro Copy Share Image
Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day. — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
“To be a better cook, cook more. To be a better writer, read more.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Writing a long essay is probably the most complex constructive act that most human beings areever expected to perform. — Carl Bereiter Copy Share Image
Writing is 90 percent procrastination: reading magazines, eating cereal out of the box, watching infomercials. — Paul Rudnick Copy Share Image
I want to remind people of the great and profound joy that can be found in stories, and that stories can connect… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
Our minds thus grow in spots; and like grease spots, the spots spread. But we let them spread as little as possible:… — James Truslow Adams Copy Share Image
“Read. Read all the time. Read as a matter of principle, as a matter of self-respect. Read as a nourishing staple of… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
“I like to read and write because it is the ONLY thing that takes my mind off of the real world and… — Shandy L. Kurth Copy Share Image
Pity the man who has a favorite restaurant, but not a favorite author. He's picked out a favorite place to feed his… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
I would like to have the superpower of being able to touch a book and then gain all the knowledge out of… — Nicholas Brendon Copy Share Image
It's absurd to think of 'Pride and Prejudice,' this classic, beloved book, beset with a zombie uprising. The goal is to make… — Seth Grahame-Smith Copy Share Image
Don't consider me too demanding if I ask you once again to set great store by holy books and read them as… — Pio of Pietrelcina Copy Share Image
As we were negotiating, I didn't have a script. Once the deal is closed, they let you read the script. So, I… — James Badge Dale Copy Share Image
There's no such thing as a folk writer. There's no such thing as somebody who's never read a book before suddenly sitting… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
“The use of reading, Gibbon says somewhere, is to aid us in thinking. I have always disagreed with Gibbon over that; he… — Joan Aiken Copy Share Image
The real risks for any artist are taken in pushing the work to the limits of what is possible, in the attempt… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
The power of a text when it is read is different from the power it has when it is copied out. Only… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others. Then we might… — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
The original sense of the word 'influence' is 'to flow into.' For the most part, these writers that I admire... their style… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
All children are heartless. They have not grown a heart yet, which is why they can climb tall trees and say shocking… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
The best effect of any book is that it excites the reader to self activity. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
This must be a gift book. That is to say a book, which you wouldn't take on any other terms. — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
“You know what it's like to *lose* yourself in a story. We have brother and sister *souls*.” — Mike Carey Copy Share Image
“But I wasn't a well-read bookworm; I was just a dumb whore in the right library.” — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“I roused myself from the book which I was dreaming over rather than reading,” — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
The whole of the day should not be daytime; there should be one hour, if not more, which the day did not… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Nothing great was ever achieved without a personal sacrifice. You have to pay the price to realize your goals.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
“What novels did you read when you were young, dear? I'm convinced it all turns on that.” — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
Stupidity consists in wanting to reach conclusions. We are a thread, and we want to know the whole cloth. — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“Love is staring into someone's eyes, and not being able to imagine more” — S.E. SEVER Copy Share Image
There is as much trickery required to grow rich by a stupid book as there is folly in buying it. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
When you are reading something and you have people pop up in your head you are just sort of stuck with it. — Anne Fletcher Copy Share Image
I couldn't think of anything more pointless than reading a piece of fiction written by a robot. — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
“Have you never picked up a book you've read before, and found it speaks to you in a new way?” — Django Wexler Copy Share Image
“Writers aren't born, they're made--from practice, reading, and a lot of caffeine. And sometimes tutelage.” — Alexander Chee Copy Share Image
You have to remember that it is impossible to commit a crime while reading a book. — John Waters Copy Share Image
