“We might be on the same page, but I wasn't happy about reading it.”

“It wasn't about being happy or unhappy. I just didn't want to be me anymore.”

Sarah Dessen book What Happened to Goodbye

“I took a course in speed reading, learning to read straight down the middle of the page, and I was able to go through War and Peace in 20 minutes. It’s about Russia”

Woody Allen (1935) American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician

“It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else.”

John Waters (1946) American filmmaker, actor, comedian and writer

“Read. Read 1000 pages for every 1 page that you write.”

Sherman Alexie (1966) Native American author and filmmaker

“She read books quickly and compulsively, paperback after paperback, as if she might drift away without the anchor of the printed page.”

Jane Hamilton (1957) American novelist

“Nietzsche says that as soon as he had read a single page of Schopenhauer, he knew he would read every page of him and pay heed to every word, even to the errors he might find. Every intellectual aspirant will be able to name men whom he has read in this way.”

Georg Brandes (1842–1927) Danish literature critic and scholar

“See… Relationships are hard, man. For order, for any relationship to work, both people have to be on the same page, both people have to have the same focus, and we all know what that page is. We all know what that focus is. In order for the relationship to work both people have to have the same focus, and what's that focus? That focus is all about HER! It's all about her!”

Chris Rock (1965) American comedian, actor, screenwriter, television producer, film producer, and director

“In people's eyes I read
Pages of malice and sin.”

Mikhail Lermontov (1814–1841) Russian writer, poet and painter

“By the way, I sold another story, same company. “Wolfshead” twentyfive pages $40.00. After reading it, I’m not altogether sure I wasnt off my noodler when I wrote it.”

Robert E. Howard (1906–1936) American author