Reading Quote by Cynthia Hand

“presumed that the reader was as fascinated by her life as she was - which was a deadly mistake. The other deadly mistakes she…

— Charles Bukowski

“Maybe she’d ruined her brain by spending too much time reading.”

— E.M. Foner

“Only the educated stop to look for words - having enough to occasionally misplace them.”

— Derek B. Miller

“Bethyl Ann has vomited words like she ate the dictionary.”

— Jennifer Archer

“Used to all kinds of society, she watched people as one reads the pages of a novel, with a certain disinterested amusement.”

— D.H. Lawrence

Charlotte slammed the paper down onto her desk with an exclamation of rage. “Aloysius Starkweather is the most stubborn, hypocritical, obstinate, degenerate—” She broke…

— Cassandra Clare

“Jane Austen has taught me to view the ridiculous and rude with amusement rather than disdain.”

— Natalie Tyler

“We were supposed to be studying literature together. Instead I wanted to take her off the shelf, crack her open, and read the shit…

— Kendall Ryan

“She had always suffered from a vague restlessness, a longing for adventure that she told herself severely was the result of reading too many…

— Robin McKinley

Drunk, Jane spoke as though she were Nancy Drew. I was a fool for a girl with a dainty lexicon.

— Michael Chabon

“She is a great gobbler of books, but reads only trash, memorizing nothing and leaving out the longer descriptions.”

— Vladimir Nabokov

“Yes, if you believed in words, if you lived by words, you had better be careful which words you say and how you say…

— Gail Godwin