The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is such seduction in a library of good books that I cannot resist the temptation to luxuriate in reading. — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
I know every book of mine by its smell, and I have but to put my nose between the pages to be… — George Gissing Copy Share Image
“I don't really read as much but I am reading a depressing book on the Holocaust…” — Patricia Reilly Giff Copy Share Image
Sabbath rest is more than mere abstention from physical work; and, therefore, must include worship and Scripture-reading. — Joseph Hertz Copy Share Image
If one reads enough books one has a fighting chance. Or better, one's chances of survival increase with each book one reads. — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
Don't write for money. Write because you love to do something. If you write for money, you won't write anything worth reading. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I think a book should be judged 10 years later, after reading and re-reading it. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
[My father] advised me to sit every few months in my reading chair for an entire evening, close my eyes and try… — Luis Walter Alvarez Copy Share Image
You have to give your art everything you can - I don't mean only writing, but studying other poets and poetics, thinking,… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
“Reading is an act of resistance in a landscape of distraction… We regain the world by withdrawing from it just a little… — David Ulin Copy Share Image
The best pastimes for a true enjoyer of leisure who has to stay at home . . .: reading by the fireside. . . . Listening to music. — Salvador de Madariaga Copy Share Image
Those who scorn you taunt only themselves -- I knew this without reading one word; because in reading one is reminded of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For every time a loved one leaves your life two new chapters begin; Yours, and Theirs. But don't worry about the reading,… — Tyler Urann Copy Share Image
Many persons read and like fiction. It does not tax the intelligence and the intelligence of most of us can so ill… — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
Poker is a game where you don't have to have the best hand to win. Poker is really reading other people and… — Charlie Ergen Copy Share Image
“The people that loves God, do they also have troubles? Yes but the troubles never have them. They can have pain but… — Patience Johnson Copy Share Image
I'm the enemy. Because I like to think, I like to read. I'm into freedom of speech, the freedom of choice. I'm… — Denis Leary Copy Share Image
The trouble with Christianity was that by about 150, there were hardly any Jews left in the Christian church, and so from… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
“It is possible for a writer to make, or remake at least, for a reader, the primary pleasures of eating, or drinking,… — A.S. Byatt Copy Share Image
A truly good book attracts very little favor to itself. It is so true that it teaches me better than to read… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“How does one develop compassion for someone with a completely different set of values without reading something from their point of view?… — Jennifer Steil Copy Share Image
You have to convince the adults that if a child is to learn his culture, he or she will have to see… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
When Mats came in the evenings, they would drink tea in the kitchen while reading their books and talking about them. If… — Tove Jansson Copy Share Image
It's good to know how to read, but it's dangerous to know how to read and not how to interpret what you're… — Mike Tyson Copy Share Image
“She seemed to think reading was some sort of hobby, as opposed to being as necessary as breathing, sleeping, and eating.” — Michelle Cooper Copy Share Image
In so many reviews that I'm reading of 'The Florida Project,' everyone is assuming it's my second film. — Sean Baker Copy Share Image
There is no shortage of wonderful writers. What we lack is a dependable mass of readers. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
If you go home with somebody, and they don't have books, don't fuck 'em! — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“reading is not something you have to do it should be some thing you want to do” — Taylor Brooks Copy Share Image
“When a man finds this kind of woman, he will go all out for her knowing that she will not be a… — Agu Jaachynma N.E Copy Share Image
“when we are in the world of reading it helps us to think in the way we wish…” — Shebapmannil Copy Share Image
I've been changed watching films or reading books or hearing music, and that helps you to live your life. — Juliette Binoche Copy Share Image
“You can read merely to pass the time, or you can read with an overt urgency, but eventually you will read against… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
“Reading has become schoolwork, not an activity in which students willingly engage outside of school.” — Donalyn Miller Copy Share Image
While writing a novel I almost completely stop reading books in the same sub-genre for the duration. — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
Doing research on the Web is like using a library assembled piecemeal by pack rats and vandalized nightly. — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
Everyone in the South has no time for reading because they are all too busy writing. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“As night falls silently all around, She carefully turns the last page.” — Rachel Lewis Copy Share Image
“Reading is listening to the dead with our eyes. (page 325, Reading in the Brain, Stanislas Dehaene, 2009)” — Francisco de Quevedo Copy Share Image