When I was reading 'The Underground Railroad,' I had to actually hold my hand over the right-hand page so I wouldn't see,… — Jenna Blum Copy Share Image
I ended up reading comics and just started drawing at a very young age. By high school, I was putting together longer… — Tim Fish Copy Share Image
I'm not big on reading business books. I get copies of all of them, because people want me to put a comment… — James Goodnight Copy Share Image
I have learned so much from working with other poets, travelling and reading with them, spending days discussing poems in progress. There… — Helen Dunmore Copy Share Image
What I look for is identifying what the utility of a character is to the telling of the story overall. If I… — Harrison Ford Copy Share Image
Every free minute away from dance (my main focus) I was memorizing new English words, either showering, walking or on the toilet.… — Li Cunxin Copy Share Image
When we have spiritual reading at meals, when we have the rosary at night, when we have study groups, forums, when we… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
Since reading Cameron Diaz's 'The Body Book', I follow her routine of drinking a pint of water first thing. It rehydrates and… — Gemma Atkinson Copy Share Image
I had literary interests my whole life. I decided at the age of five I was going to be a writer. So… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
I was bar mitzvahed, which was hard. I feel it was the hardest thing I ever had to do; harder than making… — Clara Mamet Copy Share Image
One should learn from a book. Books have a lot to teach us. They have a lot of empathy to impart to… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
“The 1920s was a great time for reading altogether—very possibly the peak decade for reading in American life. Soon it would be… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“Those that spend the greater part of their time in reading or writing books are, of course, apt to take rather particular… — M.R. James Copy Share Image
“One of the powerful functions of a library — any library — lies in its ability to take us away from worlds… — Richard F. Thomas Copy Share Image
“She imagined the reading she did now as like climbing inside one of those deep old beds she'd seen in a museum,… — Tessa Hadley Copy Share Image
“I couldn't get to sleep. The book lay nearby. A thin object on the divan. So strange. Between two cardboard covers were… — Ismail Kadare Copy Share Image
He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
In many ways, the ability to read is the great divide that separates the very young from everyone else. Once we've joined… — Patricia T. O'Conner Copy Share Image
It is impossible to read in America, except on a train, because of the telephone. Everyone has a telephone, and it rings… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I'm very much a word-centric writer, and that comes from the literature and the reading that I did as kid and also… — Grace Potter Copy Share Image
I've been leading newsrooms for a while now and it's been an honor serving as Editor in Chief of N.J., but I… — Ron Fournier Copy Share Image
I avoid the young adult section altogether if possible, although it's sometimes fun to catch a girl lying on the floor, reading… — Cecily von Ziegesar Copy Share Image
J.L. Moreno was a pioneer of twentieth-century theater and psychotherapy. A remarkable work, Impromptu Man should be required reading for therapists and… — Jeffrey K. Zeig Copy Share Image
My mom would keep all kinds of materials in her classroom for children for reading. She kept comic books, newspapers, sports magazines,… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
It was the courts, of course, that took away prayer from our schools, that took away Bible reading from our schools. It's… — Rod Parsley Copy Share Image
There are times when I think that the reading I have done in the past has had no effect except to cloud… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
There have been two areas identified as being vital to reading - and that's for very young children between the ages of… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
“Tucking my nose into a book makes me completely oblivious to my surroundings. I would have made a terrible spy in the… — Alyxandra Harvey Copy Share Image
In the electronic age, books, words and reading are not likely to remain sufficiently authoritative and central to knowledge to justify literature. — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
I love being home, reading the paper in the morning and having a cup of coffee, doing laundry, going grocery shopping and… — Tristan Prettyman Copy Share Image
“principles of reading: reduce articles to their essence, read and write in the same day, subscribe to journals, and learn to skim.” — Wendy Laura Belcher Copy Share Image
When I was working on my career, I was very aware of what I had done, what I wanted to do next.… — Kurt Russell Copy Share Image
books are brain food. If every American would purchase the equivalent of his weight in books each year, this country would be… — Patricia Schroeder Copy Share Image
A couple of times he called the second he'd finished reading a novel and just had to tell me about it, and… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
“No days, perhaps, of all our childhood are ever so fully lived are those that we had regarded as not being lived… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
It's just a matter of writing the kind of book I enjoy reading. Something better be happening at the beginning, and then… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
I have been putting the effort. I went for the acting course, watched a lot of movies and started reading about films.… — Aishwarya Lekshmi Copy Share Image
Very young children eat their books, literally devouring their contents. This is one reason for the scarcity of first editions of Alice… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I do like to get away from technology. I still read a lot. Having said that, most of my reading is on… — Martin Cooper Copy Share Image
Maxims and aphorisms, let us remember that wisdom is the true salt of literature, and the books that are most nourishing are… — John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn Copy Share Image
