Quote by William Wordsworth

“You do have a story inside you; it lies articulate and waiting to be written — behind your silence and your suffering.”

— Anne Rice

“At home, I mainly used to read. I wished to stifle with external sensations all that was ceaselessly boiling up inside me. And among…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“and knew that here I might read or dream or idle exactly as I chose with never a creature to disturb me, how grateful…

— Elizabeth von Arnim

“I could still feel the ghost of him hovering in the quiet, dark recess of my heart. It was as if he was just…

— Colleen Houck

“...and I had a great curiosity to talk to the books, as I thought they did; and so to learn how all things had…

— Olaudah Equiano

“Often, then, the stories came pouring out, and often they were set before us slowly and quietly like tea. These slow stories were told…

— Daoud Hari

“I could spend all day lost in someone else's imagination. I love reading.”

— Joanna Bolouri

“When reading dies, the imagination soon follows.”

— Ronnie Ray Jenkins

“I will tell my story, and my reader shall judge for me. I will tell my story, and so contrive to pass some few…

— Mary Shelley

“One of the best cures for a reluctant reader, after all, is a tale they cannot stop themselves from reading.”

— Neil Gaiman

“So I say to you read! Read! Something will stick in the mind, be diligent and good will come of it.”

— Sarah Vowell

“If every time you sat down, you expected something great, writing would always be a great disappointment. Plus that expectation would also keep you…

— Natalie Goldberg