One way of reading my life is that I have been in constant search for a father.

If you took my reading and writing out of my head, I don't know who I would be.

Whatever sentence will bear to be read twice, we may be sure was thought twice.

The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.

Wonderful ... I was up all night reading it, laughing and crying out in horror.

The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.

When I first wanted to be a writer, I learned to write prose by reading poetry.

You learn more about life from watching 'Big Brother' than from reading a book.

I love to cook. I spend weekends reading cookbooks - it's really my relaxation.

I read books like mad, but I am careful to to let anything I read influence me.

She thought a writer should work harder writing a book than she did reading it.

The beauty of reading is that it lets you travel in a way you could never know.

It is well known that reading quickens the growth of a heart like nothing else.

I like the storytelling and reading the letters, the long-distance dedications.

The real reason Milton went blind was to avoid reading unsolicited manuscripts.

My argument is that War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading.

Reading inspirational and motivational quotes daily is like taking my vitamins.

Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.

Without reading, we are all without light in the dark, without fire in the cold.

I'm bad at baking. I'm bad at letting go of things. I'm probably bad at reading.

All books are either dreams or swords, you can cut, or you can drug, with words.

No man can be called friendless who has God and the companionship of good books.

Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable.

'What is the use of a book', thought Alice, 'without pictures or conversations?'

Of course reading and thinking are important but, my God, food is important too.

I think a book should be judged 10 years later, after reading and re-reading it.

A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.

The only thing that you absolutely have to know, is the location of the library.

So much working, reading, thinking, living to do! A lifetime is not long enough.

There is no question in my mind: reading Gandhi's autobiography changed my life.

I read here and there in books, enjoying the examples and ignoring the argument.

One of the best ways to expand his horizon is through a regular reading program.

I'll tell you what I think. I think you need to stay indoors reading more books!

Reading is a dissuasion from immorality. Reading stands in the place of company.

Most of the literary classics are worth reading, if you've nothing better to do.

He has left off reading altogether, to the great improvement of his originality.

Only in today's sick society can a man be persecuted for reading too many books.

Reading is something I've really missed, not being able to enter people's worlds.

You write with ease, to show your breeding, But easy writing's vile hard reading.

First publication is a pure, carnal leap into that dark which one dreams is life.

One always has a better book in one's mind than one can manage to get onto paper.

I got fired from being a lunch-shift bartender because I had a reading of a play.

I've discovered writers by reading books left in airplane seats and weird hotels.

We generally learn languages for the benefit of reading the books written in them

Things started to get out of control when I began reading that I was a superstar.

To describe my scarce leisure time in today's terms, I always default to reading.

One is more apt to become wise by doing fool things than by reading wise sayings.

It is a reading age, a preaching age, a working age, but it is not a praying age.

Boredom is a certain sign that we are allowing our faculties to rust in idleness.

I actually like being alone. I spend most evenings reading and taking long baths.

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