{"quotes":[{"text":"Read what you find interesting, and then follow your interests. You'll find that in doing so you always generate enough to illuminate the next step.","author":"Mark Helprin","tags":["books","reading","reading-books","reading-habits"],"id":5875,"author_id":"Mark+Helprin"},{"text":"The biblical stories are the greatest sacred-inspirations.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["biblical","christian","divine","faith","holy-writing","hope","lailah-gifty-akita-affirmations","motivation","reading-habits","scared","self-esteem","spiritual"],"id":19451,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"For I need not remind such an audience as this that the neat sorting out of books into age-groups, so dear to publishers, has only a very sketchy relation with the habits of any real readers. Those of us who are blamed when old for reading childish books were blamed when children for reading books too old for us. No reader worth his salt trots along in obedience to a time-table.","author":"C.S. Lewis","tags":["age-groups","books","children","children-s-books","children-s-literature","escapism","fairy-tales-for-adults","fantasy","joy-of-reading","mature-readers","reading","reading-age","reading-books","reading-habits"],"id":22169,"author_id":"C.S.+Lewis"},{"text":"When I have money, I invest in buying books. My personal development by reading these books is my greatest pleasure.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["books","personal-development","reading-books","reading-for-life","reading-habits","reading-motivation"],"id":25091,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"Read! It is as important as breathing until you are breathing.","author":"Hira Shahid Kazim","tags":["inspirational","reading","reading-book","reading-habits","reading-motivation"],"id":27921,"author_id":"Hira+Shahid+Kazim"},{"text":"In reading you must pursue to become a creator.","author":"Aman Jassal","tags":["read","reader","readers","reading","reading-books","reading-habits","reading-motivation"],"id":36033,"author_id":"Aman+Jassal"},{"text":"Books are almost as individual as friends. There is no earthly use in laying down general laws about them. Some meet the needs of one person, and some of another; and each person should beware of the booklover’s besetting sin, of what Mr. Edgar Allan Poe calls ‘the mad pride of intellectuality,’ taking the shape of arrogant pity for the man who does not like the same kind of books.","author":"Theodore Roosevelt","tags":["reading-books","reading-habits"],"id":37279,"author_id":"Theodore+Roosevelt"},{"text":"All of us possess a reading vocabulary as big as a lake but draw from a writing vocabulary as small as a pond. The good news is that the acts of searching and gathering always expand the number of usable words.","author":"Roy Peter Clark","tags":["reading","reading-habits","vocabulary","vocabulary-building","writing","writing-advice","writing-craft"],"id":37671,"author_id":"Roy+Peter+Clark"},{"text":"[I]t is not hasty reading--but serious meditating upon holy and heavenly truths, that make them prove sweet and profitable to the soul. It is not the bee’s touching of the flower, which gathers honey--but her abiding for a time upon the flower, which draws out the sweet. It is not he who reads most--but he who meditates most, who will prove the choicest, sweetest, wisest and strongest Christian.","author":"Thomas Brooks","tags":["meditation","reading","reading-habits","thought","wisdom"],"id":39440,"author_id":"Thomas+Brooks"},{"text":"I have falling in love with reading.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["lifelong-learner","lifelong-learning","lifelong-reader","lifelong-reading","read","read-and-write","read-for-a-lifetime","reader","readers","readers-and-writers","reading","reading-aloud","reading-books","reading-for-life","reading-habits","reading-motivation","reading","reading-readers-writers","reading-secrets","reading-thinking"],"id":40560,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":83,"pages":9,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}