To genuinely discover your Spirit, stop talking, stop reading, and start listening to your heart.

If a man spends enough time in a library, he may actually change his mind. I have seen it happen.

My reading preferences are kind of all over the board - I read nonfiction, I read graphic novels.

One of my biggest goals, especially with writing YA novels, is just to have people enjoy reading.

I do think film can change culture, in a way that reading a story in the New York Times does not.

I used to live a very social life and never spend much solitary time looking at birds or reading.

Books can only reveal us to ourselves, and as often as they do us this service we lay them aside.

College isn't the only answer. Reading is a college that you can and should attend all your life.

The two best predictors of early reading success are alphabet recognition and phonemic awareness.

I don't love reading so much, but I love book shopping. It's just because I don't have much time.

After my divorce, I was struggling to find my own voice. Through reading, I gained my power back.

I am 82 years old. I imagine that I will keep on writing as long as anyone wants to keep reading.

I love reading. I'm fortunate enough to have signed books by Faulkner, Steinbeck, Thomas Pynchon.

I'm a good scholar when it comes to reading but a blotting kind of writer when you give me a pen.

Here's my library, where I don't do a lot of reading but mostly play Angry Birds on the computer.

Of course, you always think about how it will be read. I always aim for a reading in one sitting.

How do you know that you are not part of a book? That someone's not reading your story right now?

Well, my paper has asked me to do a series: Lives of the Great Musicians, reading time 2 minutes.

Reading is looked at like it's corny or lame, but you'd be surprised what you can find in a book.

One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing.

It's very hard to get a movie made. You could spend your life reading scripts that never got made.

I'll read enough When I do see the very book indeed Where all my sins are writ, and that's myself.

For the reader who has put away comic books, but isn't yet ready for editorials in the Daily News.

A rock band used to be four guys and a drummer. Now it's five guys sitting around reading manuals!

Thing that was very different for me is that an American child's reading is filled with Americans.

I was never a comic-book fan, but I loved cartoons. I don't enjoy reading: for me, it's hard work.

I hate leisure, except reading. I'm really a person made to work, if sketching is considered work.

The second I learned to read in first grade, when I was 5, I preferred it to life. And I still do.

When you read a novel, you know what to expect because you've been reading novels for a long time.

A capacity, and taste, for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.

Reading a novel of a private experience, very, very different, the nature of it is very different.

A great library is one nobody notices because it is always there, and always has what people need.

No amount of misfortune will satisfy the man who is not satisfied with reading a hundred epigrams.

One of the reasons people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.

Am I getting better at making choices? Well, I think I might be getting better at reading scripts.

Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.

Few things leave a deeper mark on the reader, than the first book that finds its way to his heart.

Reading the [The Verso Book of Dissent] is like encountering the best version of our angry selves.

Librarians are the secret masters of the world. They control information. Don't ever piss one off.

Studying writing to me means reading and also rewriting obsessively. That's the best way to learn.

The reading of books, what is it but conversing with the wisest men of all ages and all countries.

In Science we have been reading only the notes to a poem; in Christianity we find the poem itself.

He had been so busy getting away from the library, he hadn't paid attention to where he was going.

They like my books better in England than in France; a translation would be very successful there.

I love reading books that you can't put down, and they just take you over for a night or a weekend.

What sense of superiority it gives one to escape reading some book which every one else is reading.

Today each of you is the object of the other’s reading, one reads in the other the unwritten story.

My perfect morning is spent drinking coffee, eating porridge and reading the paper at a local cafe.

I was thrilled to be able to read at three. I just thought everyone loved reading as much as I did.

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