Bible Quote by Leo Tolstoy

“Suggestions for further reading Karen Armstrong, Jerusalem; Jorge Luis Borges, Ficciones; Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha; Deepak Chopra, God: A Story of Revelation; Kahlil Gibran, The…

— Paulo Coelho

Every new book I read comes to be a part of that overall and unitary book that is the sum of my readings...if you…

— Italo Calvino

I read the Old Testament, New Testament, Psalms and Proverbs every day.

— Jerry Falwell

For character, to prepare for the inevitable I recommend selections from [Ralph Waldo] Emerson. His writings have done for me far more than all…

— Rutherford B. Hayes

“I "love" reading. It makes me feel like I am swallowing up Christ, Homer, Confucius, Newton, Franklin, Socrates, Caesar, and the whole world into…

— Moffat Machingura

Primarily I am a passionately religious man, and my novels must be written from the depth of my religious experience.

— D. H. Lawrence

I want to write such things as compel the admiring acclamation of the world at large, such things as are written but once in…

— Mary MacLane

I read constantly, but I don't read non-religious stuff. I don't have the time.

— Anita Bryant

I read hard, or not at all; never skimming, never turning aside to merely inciting books; and Plato, Aristotle, Butler, Thucydides, Sterne, Jonathan Edwards,…

— Frederick William Robertson

It would be worth the while to select our reading, for books are the society we keep; to read only the serenely true; never…

— Henry David Thoreau

I am a very slow reader. I have to have things written in a pithy way.

— Matt Hancock

Having reached the halfway mark in the alphabet, my prime focus is on writing each new book as well as I can.

— Sue Grafton