Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others. Then we might even come to see that it is….

I think that the most important thing for me is how is the character that I would be reading for? Is it interesting? Is there stuff to do? Are there ….

Once I engage in something, I really engage in it, and I love the process of reading and researching because I come from an academic background..

I still recommend reading travel guides as an insight to a travellers perspective on fantasy worlds. Nearly all characters end up travelling at some ….

Besides the actual reading in class of many poems, I would suggest you do two things: first, while teaching everything you can and keeping free of it….

I loved the material when I first read it, and the experience of making the film was a great one. So when we came around to complete the trilogy, I j….

Truly Alice, books are wonderful things; to sit alone in a room and laugh and cry, because you are reading, and still be safe when you close the book….

Reading, at the deepest level, is a physical experience. Most people are not attuned to this, most people don't learn how to read - poetry for exampl….

There are times it's the only thing I want and I wonder how I'll ever go back to the world of noise and distraction. Other times, silence allows me t….

People have explored these questions ['Why am I here?', 'What is life about?'] in poems, not that they found their answers, but in reading [poems], I….

Before they read words, children are reading pictures..

The clerisy are those who seek, and find, delight and enlargement of life in books. The clerisy are those for whom reading is a personal art..

I hate reading digital books. I don't enjoy the experience. I like smelling the paper, turning the pages. I think the book as we've always known it i….

Oh no, real life is escape. The great terrors, the horrors--we hope--of your life come from reading fiction..

Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own..

The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives. She went on olden-day sailing ships with Jos….

The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading..

It's true, reading too many novels makes you go blind..

When you get inside a literary novel you feel that the author, more often than not, just doesn't know enough about things. They haven't been around e….

In Africa, when you pick up a book worth reading, out of the deadly consignments which good ships are always being made to carry out all the way from….

The Gatsby that I remember reading when I was 15 years old in junior high school was far different from the Gatsby I read as an adult..