I can't believe it! Reading and writing actually paid off! Matt Groening
I can't believe it! Reading and writing actually paid off!
Nobody ever committed suicide while reading a good book, but many have while trying to write one. Robert Byrne
Nobody ever committed suicide while reading a good book, but many have while trying to write one.
While we read history we make history. George William Curtis
While we read history we make history.
The more I like a book, the more slowly I read. this spontaneous talking back to a book is one of the things that makes reading so valuable. Anatole Broyard
The more I like a book, the more slowly I read. this spontaneous talking back to a book is one of the things that makes reading so valuable.
The way a book is read - which is to say, the qualities a reader brings to a book - can have as much to do with its worth as anything the author puts in it. Anyone who can read, can learn to read deeply and thus live more fully. Norman Cousins
The way a book is read - which is to say, the qualities a reader brings to a book - can have as much to do with its worth as anything the author puts in it. Anyone who can read, can learn to read deeply and thus live more fully.
I always read everything on the desks of people I went to see in Moscow, London, Paris I found it quite useful. W. Averell Harriman
I always read everything on the desks of people I went to see in Moscow, London, Paris I found it quite useful.
Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate love for reading. Rufus Choate
Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate love for reading.
Some read books only with a view to find fault, while others read only to be taught; the former are like venomous spiders, extracting a poisonous quality, where the latter, like the bees, sip out a sweet and profitable juice. L. Estrange
Some read books only with a view to find fault, while others read only to be taught; the former are like venomous spiders, extracting a poisonous quality, where the latter, like the bees, sip out a sweet and profitable juice.
I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve. Charles de Montesquieu
I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve.
In a very real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read. S. I. Hayakawa
In a very real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read.
Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable. Aneurin Bevan
Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable.
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. It is wholesome and bracing for the mind to have its faculties kept on the stretch. August Hare
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. It is wholesome and bracing for the mind to have its faculties kept on the stretch.
I divide all readers into two classes: Those who read to remember and those who read to forget. William Lyon Phelps
I divide all readers into two classes: Those who read to remember and those who read to forget.
If a man spends enough time in a library, he may actually change his mind. I have seen it happen. Roger Rosenblatt
If a man spends enough time in a library, he may actually change his mind. I have seen it happen.
Except a living man, there is nothing more wonderful than a book. Charles Kingsley
Except a living man, there is nothing more wonderful than a book.
No one can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure. Thomas Hardy
No one can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure.
Reading is to the mind what exercising is to the body. Richard Steele, Sr.
Reading is to the mind what exercising is to the body.
It is impossible to read for pleasure from something to which you are both father and mother, born in such travail that the writer despises the thing that enslaved him. Jim Bishop
It is impossible to read for pleasure from something to which you are both father and mother, born in such travail that the writer despises the thing that enslaved him.
For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived, for fiction, biography, and history offer an inexhaustible number of lives in many parts of the world, in all periods of time. Louis L'Amour
For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived, for fiction, biography, and history offer an inexhaustible number of lives in many parts of the world, in all periods of time.
[Readers] who like facts will be better off with a straight history that spares them all the forelock tugging and teacup tinkling. Rhoda Koenig
[Readers] who like facts will be better off with a straight history that spares them all the forelock tugging and teacup tinkling.
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