Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope..

As a Jew reading about Jesus, I thought, 'He's a pretty good guy.' It's the same conclusion Monty Python drew in 'Life of Brian' - if people actually….

Who says reading should be easy? Shouldn't it challenge you as hard sometimes as love. Maybe "hard" is not the right word in this context. Ha!.

It's a flaw in our argument, for sure. By any reading of evolutionary theory, creationists ought to have died out ages ago. They serve no function in….

When I am dead, I hope it may be said: His sins were scarlet, but his books were read..

He who cannot read is worse than deaf and blind, is yet but half alive, is still-born..

I realized that for many people attending a reading is like watching television at the end of a long day. They don't want to be sad but to laugh. Cha….

Show me a novelist – or, indeed, a reader – who wasn’t a socially awkward, self-conscious adolescent, prone to clumsiness and excessive reading and I….

Steve Forman is a brutally funny writer. His no-nonsense, unadorned style begs comparison to Dashiell Hammett, but Hammett's humor at its darkest nev….

The world is the book of women. Whatever knowledge they may possess is more commonly acquired by observation than by reading..

You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here..

If we value all readers, we must value all reading..

Reading is sometimes thought of as a form of escapism, and it’s a common turn of phrase to speak of getting lost in a book. But a book can also be wh….

Of course we all know people who aren't cut out for college, but I know it's a mistake to think of education only as a route to a better career. Read….

As a rule it usually takes three or four readings for me to be interested in a script, and if I'm interested I'll read it three or four times before ….

Every free minute away from dance (my main focus) I was memorizing new English words, either showering, walking or on the toilet. I started reading E….

A ready way to lose your friend is to lend him money. Another equally ready way to lose him is to refuse to lend him money. It is six of one and a ha….

I came to nonfiction through journalism. My first book was journalism, and it was so frustrating to me, while I was writing it, that I wasn't capturi….

Life is a poem most people never read..

The Library is a wilderness of books..

Reading any collection of a man's quotations is like eating the ingredients that go into a stew instead of cooking them together in the pot. You eat ….