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Books make the best ersatz friendships.
— Nenia Campbell
I had done a lot of reading, relative for a kid, about World War Two, and I thought about Chamberlain a lot.
— Douglas Feith
Ever since reading Jean Plaidy's 'Queen in Waiting,' I've felt deep admiration for Caroline of Ansbach.
— Lauren Willig
A writer who writes more than he reads is an amateur.
— Harlan Ellison
Weak minds may be injured by novel-reading; but sensible people find both amusement and instruction therein.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Most commanders wanted as many good sources of information as possible. MacArthur was focused on limiting and controlling his sources of intelligence.
— David Halberstam
I think reading a translation is an act of faith.
— Donna Leon
My teacher has a reading problem. He can't read my writing
— Leopold Fechtner
It's amazing how many people think a conversation is little more than reading their resume aloud.
— Marshall Thornton
Reading is the occupation of the insomniac par excellence.
— Alberto Manguel
In those days, there was no money to buy books.
— Ernest Hemingway,
She was the kind of shopkeeper who finishes the paragraph she is reading before waiting on the customer.
— Cornell Woolrich
Readership is highly dependent upon format and distribution as much as it is on content.
— Sara Sheridan
We do not learn for the benefit of anyone, we learn to unlearn ignorance.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
Let's read as if books were to disappear tomorrow!
— Gabrielle Dubois
I grow fond of David, who lays a single stone before Goliath and a single book, the Psalms, in the mouth of the world.
— Erri De Luca
Take a glass of wine while reading, your feet on the back of your slave. This is the best combination of pleasures that is.
— Danny Tyran
I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter.
— T. S. Eliot
The great thing about reading is that it broadens your life
— George R R Martin
Read in oreder to live
— Gustave Flaubert
Never underestimate the power of giving a book!
— Carmela Dutra
Reading Proust isn't just reading a book, it's an experience and you can't reject an experience.
— William Gaddis
Compulsive reading relieves the anxiety that comes from tramping through the forest of meditation in search of clearings.
— Sylvain Tesson
I am a machine condemned to devour books.
— Karl Marx
A novel must be exceptionally good to live as long as the average cat.
— Lord Chesterfield
With various readings stored his empty skull, Learn'd without sense, and venerably dull.
— Charles Churchill
We are never allowed to forget that some books are badly written; we should remember that sometimes they're badly read, too.
— Nick Hornby
My dream was to eventually make movies. To be part of the fairy tales, stories and novels I loved reading so much growing up.
— Irena A. Hoffman
So what else you into, then? I mean except reading and writing, talking like the Queen, and dressing like my granddad?
— Alexis Hall
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— Albert Einstein
There is no better adviser than a good book.
— Debasish Mridha
I grew up reading the newspapers, mostly the sports section. I was a wrestler and would check to see if I was ranked.
— Michael Pena
As a youngster I was a great dreamer, reading many books of adventure and walking lonely miles with my head in the clouds.
— Edmund Hillary
My history writing was based on what I saw in strange, exotic places rather than just reading books.
— Tony Judt
I grew up in a household where reading was encouraged. My mother believed in the power of words, and my father obviously did too.
— Caroline Kennedy
Reading is a bit like hallucinating.
— Nathan Filer
I like to share my thoughts after watching/reading or listening to something... after all you could get with amazing thoughts.
— Deyth Banger
And books -- she swallows like dumplings.
— Sholem Aleichem
Reading while I'm writing ideally inspires my competitive side. When I read great writers, I want to be a better writer.
— Amity Gaige
Every book is a world.
— Gabrielle Zevin
Nothing can be accomplished just by reading words.A sick man will never be cured of his illness through merely reading medical instructions! — Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
It is very important to be reading as well as writing. A doctor is not going to ignore new surgery practices.
— Brandon Sanderson
Reading Encyclopaedia Britannica is like channel surfing on a very highbrow cable system.
— A. J. Jacobs
There are different rules for reading, for thinking, and for talking. Writing blends all three of them.
— Mason Cooley
Reading should be in proportion to thinking, and thinking in proportion to reading.
— Nathanael Emmons
reading off the names in rotation, I called out each morning the guard for the day. We had in the
— James B. Gillett
You will find most books worth reading are worth reading twice.
— John Lothrop Motley
Reading good books ruins you for enjoying bad books.
— Mary Ann Shaffer
A doctorate study is the passion for extensive research, reading, thinking and writing.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Reading is not just an escape. It is access to a better way of life.
— Karin Slaughter
There are favorable hours for reading a book, as for writing it.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman. Believing what he read made him mad.
— George Bernard Shaw
..holding a book but reading the empty spaces.
— Ray Bradbury
I shall keep my book on the table here, and read a little every morning as soon as I wake, for I know it will do me good, and help me through the day.
— Louisa May Alcott
When I read a daring book or listen to rebellious music, I feel like I've found what freedom really means.
— Carla H. Krueger
Ooks look as if they contain knowledge, while e-readers look as if they contain information.
— Julian Barnes
she had been moping around school, not wanting to do anything besides painting and reading books.
— Kim Richardson
Desultory readers are seldom remarkable for the exactness of their learning.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
I went through a period where I was really tired of seeing and reading about myself.
— Michael Stipe
In 1963 with Abington v. Schempp, The Court said that reading portions of the New Testament could be 'psychologically harmful' to the children.
— Norman Geisler
Reading a non-fiction book is like a religious experience.
— Rachel Perry
Learning to read is one of the most extraordinary gifts you'll ever receive, so open up God's Word and read the most extraordinary book ever written.
— J.E.B. Spredemann
As every reader knows in his or her heart, there is much more to truth than mere fact.
— Alison Croggon
As much as she was enjoying it, Dimity would always rather talk about reading than actually read.
— Gail Carriger
Some men borrow books; some men steal books; and others beg presentation copies from the author.
— James Jeffrey Roche
Besides, if they continued where they left off, Faith would finish reading the book and Alec would be snoring next to her.
— Kelly Moran
I took a speed reading course and my speed shot up to 43 pages a minute, but my comprehension plummeted.
— Brian Regan
They were just stories, but stories weren't just anything.
— Rainbow Rowell
In the pages of a book, we are in paradise.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
What's wrong with your father? Huh? Can't he do this? Or have you been reading Freud? WARD, have you been reading the baby Freud?
— Benjamin R. Smith
If you were at school they would not let you read a book like this, they would keep you from reading it by involving you in sport.
— Helen DeWitt
I was reading all these male writers who were doing wild and wonderful things. It gave me permission to experiment.
— Sandra Cisneros
I'm not only a songwriter but I'm a massive music fan and I love going to shows. It's different than reading a book.
— Craig Finn
Should books not have been there, hearsay would have been the best reading material!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
I've been changed watching films or reading books or hearing music, and that helps you to live your life.
— Juliette Binoche
However it happens, the appeal of the books we return to is often, at least in part, a fascination with what we can't quite reach.
— Peter Turchi
That's what sofas are for: sit down, drink a cup of tea, talk of literature. At least that's how I see it.
— Sophie Divry
Read good books to improve your life.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Books are so strong, you can break their spines and they will still stand for eternity.
— Donald J. Bingle
I think it is shocking that 15- and 16-year-olds leave school unable to add up and with the reading ability of a four-year-old.
— Joan Collins
Thanks to my friends for their care in my breeding,Who taught me betimes to love working and reading. — Isaac Watts
Thirst for Knowledge; Quench by reading.
— Santhosh Gangadharan
Why bother reading something that you won't remember?
— Jonathan Nolan
Reading her reviews kept his memory of her alive in a way he probably shouldn't want.
— Rainbow Rowell
Grown men have been seen fleeing after reading the menu posted outside.
— William E. Geist