To encourage literature and the arts is a duty which every good citizen owes to his country. — George Washington Copy Share Image
If I'm not playing basketball, I'm reading or thinking of stories I can create. — Robin Lopez Copy Share Image
“Commit yourself to the serious reading of books, and your life will be enlightened.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I love reading about the supernatural, and time-slip novels, and the mistress of both is Barbara Erskine. — Alison Weir Copy Share Image
Usually I decide on what it is I'm writing next by the books I'm reading. — Kate Mosse Copy Share Image
I read books when I have time. I probably spend a third of the time watching TV, and the rest of it… — Mark Mendoza Copy Share Image
A leader isnt born, he his made by reading and by learning. A leader must know how to hurt those he loves. — Samule Kermis Copy Share Image
People acquiring a second language have the best chance for success through reading. — Stephen D. Krashen Copy Share Image
I like reading my bible, I like bible studies where I get together with others and talk about the word of God… — Bernhard Langer Copy Share Image
And if our book consumption remains as low as it has been, at least let us admit that it is because reading… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“A book is not just paper and ink, it's a world full of dreams, imaginations, knowledge, awakening, emboldening and a lot, lot… — Jyoti Arora Copy Share Image
“Don't run around looking for someone who can sexually satisfy you, run around and look for the book which will intellectually satisfy… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Reading isn't good for a ballplayer. Not good for his eyes. If my eyes went bad even a little bit I couldn't… — Babe Ruth Copy Share Image
The worst readers are those who behave like plundering troops: they take away a few things they can use, dirty and confound… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Reading, for pleasure and knowledge, has always been, will always be one of my favorite things to do. (Larry Brown: A Writer's… — Larry Brown Copy Share Image
“...we could think or feel as we wished toward the characters, or as the poet, discounting history, invited us to; we were… — Janet Frame Copy Share Image
I don't remember reading much at all during the writing of Eileen. I go through several years-long dry spells and I don't… — Ottessa Moshfegh Copy Share Image
Probably the single most commen response I get from my readesr, be it through e-mails or letters, is that they did not… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
Reading the script for 'Jennifer's Body,' I just thought that here was a script that really exposes the horror between girls and… — Karyn Kusama Copy Share Image
Reading is learning, but applying is also learning and the more important kind of learning at that. Our chief method is to… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
Ultimately the first, best step in getting your work noticed is to write good work. If people don't engage in your writing,… — John Scalzi Copy Share Image
It doesn't matter if I'm only to be gone four days, as in this case; I take six months' supply of reading… — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
“We should affirm the great value of reading just for the fun of it. . . . In my experience, Christians are… — Alan Jacobs Copy Share Image
“Better minds have said it before, but I don’t mind repeating it less well again and again: Reading, like the natural world,… — Junot Díaz Copy Share Image
A fondness for reading, properly directed, must be an education in itself. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“If you have friends who say they don't read, you need new friends. That is my final answer.” — Niedria Dionne Kenny Copy Share Image
“I'd decided to establish a new rule for myself: read for half an hour an evening, no matter what.” — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
I'm a digital reader. When I travel abroad, I don't want to pack physical books, and I even like reading on my… — Rajeev Suri Copy Share Image
Fiction structures an experience for the reader to live through. ... That is why people read: to have experiences. — Bonnie Friedman Copy Share Image
“I realize that long hours of reading are not for every one but I have never ceased to be grateful that they… — Victor P. Hass Copy Share Image
“In principle and reality, libraries are life-enhancing palaces of wonder.” — Gail Honeyman Copy Share Image
“A person who reads lives a thousand lives. A person who reads not, lives only one.” — Laura Vazquez Copy Share Image
The beauty of reading is that it lets you travel in a way you could never know. — Alek Wek Copy Share Image
The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Reading, for me, was like breathing. It was probably akin to masturbation for my brain.” — Penny Reid Copy Share Image
The art of reading consists in remembering the essentials and forgetting non essentials. — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
To see him act is like reading Shakespeare by flashes of lightning. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
I'm always reading the next book. Taking notes. Highlighting, researching, studying. It doesn't stop. — Jocko Willink Copy Share Image
To me, reading a fashion magazine is the last thing I need to do. I've got books I need to read. — Vivienne Westwood Copy Share Image
