Attention Quote by Charles Dickens

One of my brothers read a lot. His head was forever in some book.

— Malcolm X

Then I found books that were written much later, as late as 15 years ago. It was very superficial material, but enough to tell…

— Charles Guggenheim

I was reading some Raymond Carver. I really liked how he did that 'slice of life' thing. Because I'm not much of a reader…

— Limmy

I probably coughed self-pityingly in response, little aware that I was about to cross a tremendous threshold beyond which there would be no return,…

— Kate Morton

Reading Stephen King's book, On Writing, was like being cornered and forced to have a long, drawn out mental enema.

— Mary Garden

Every day I ran to that book like it was a bottle of whiskey and crawled inside because it was a world that I…

— Craig Ferguson

“Reading two pages apiece of seven books every night, eh? I was young. You bowed to yourself in the mirror, stepping forward to applause…

— James Joyce

The bookful blockhead ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head, With his own tongue still edifies his ears, And always list'ning…

— Alexander Pope

“What Fats wanted to recover was a kind of innocence, and the route he had chosen back to it was through all the things…

— J. K. Rowling

“Reading two pages apiece of seven books every night, eh? I was young. You bowed to yourself in the mirror, stepping forward to applause…

— James Joyce

“Fats was starting to think that if you flipped every bit of received wisdom on its head you would have the truth. He wanted…

— J.K. Rowling

“Every book was a peep-hole into the realm of knowledge. His hunger fed upon what he read, and increased.”

— Jack London