“A good writer, like a good reader, has a mind's ear...writers need to hear as they write.”— Ursula K. Le Guin, amazon.com
“Books are like seeds: they come to life when you read them & grow spines & leaves. I need trees around me as I need books around me, so building bookshelves is something like planting trees.”— Roger Deakin, amazon.com
“I guess people like to read about the things that they want the most and experience the least.”— Daniel T. Thomsen, Lisa Joy, Bernard Lowe, Jeffrey Wright, imdb.com
“Read more books, I guess, is what I’m trying to say. Read stories about other people, other emotions. Get emotions that you can’t get from daily life just now.”— Sam Sykes, twitter.com
“When our elementary teachers taught us that reading is never a waste of time i bet they never imagined something like twitter would exist.”— Jonny Sun, twitter.com
“Pleasure reading is more powerful than parents’ educational attainment or socioeconomic status. This means that pleasure reading is THE way to address social inequalities in terms of actualizing our students’ full potential and overcoming barriers to satisfying and successful lives.”— Jeffrey Wilhelm, www2.ncte.org
“Pleasure reading is more powerful than parents’ educational attainment or socioeconomic status. This means that pleasure reading is THE way to address social inequalities in terms of actualizing our students’ full potential and overcoming barriers to satisfying and successful lives.”— Jeffrey Wilhelm, www2.ncte.org
“Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.”— Joyce Carol Oates, amazon.com
“Any way out of our heads can be unhealthy – that includes reading, computer games, war or religion.”— Jules Evans, aeon.co
“You should never just read for “enjoyment.” Read to make yourself smarter! Less judgmental. More apt to understand your friends’ insane behavior, or better yet, your own.”— John Waters, amazon.com
“If the 1st Amendment means anything, it means that a state has no business telling a man, sitting alone in his own house, what books he may read or what films he may watch.”— Thurgood Marshall, thurgoodmarshall.com
“Reading about nature is fine, but if a person walks in the woods and listens carefully, he can learn more than what is in books . . .”— George Washington Carver, amazon.com
“The wonderful thing about language is that it promotes its own oblivion: my eyes follow the lines on the paper, and from the moment I am caught up in their meaning, I lose sight of them.”— Maurice Merleau Ponty, amazon.com
“I think the two fundamental issues were that Donald Trump doesn't read anything. Let me accent that—anything. Nothing. If you're working for the president of the United States, that's an odd position because how do you get information to him? That's already a major hurdle. But then there's the secon…”— Michael Wolff, npr.org
“I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”— Groucho Marx, quoteinvestigator.com
“What is this obsession people have with books? They put them in their houses—like they're trophies. What do you need it for after you read it?”— Larry David, Jerry Seinfeld, Jerry Seinfeld, Jerry Seinfeld, imdb.com
“Books, books, I need my books. Have you re-read those books yet, by the way? You know the great thing? When you read ‘Moby Dick’ the second time, Ahab and the whale become good friends.”— Larry David, Jerry Seinfeld, Jerry Seinfeld, Jerry Seinfeld, imdb.com
“I began speed reading, and just last night I read “The Da Vinci Code” in fifteen minutes. I know it's only 4 words, but it's a start.”— jackD00P, reddit.com
“No. I can survive well enough on my own— if given the proper reading material.”— Sarah J. Maas, Celaena Sardothien, amazon.com
“Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library. The only entrance requirement is interest.”— Lady Bird Johnson, thoughtco.com