All authors know that any book is a casting of runes, a reading of cards, a map of the palm and heart.… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
The experience of reading a book is always unique. I believe that you render a version of the story, when you read… — Carlton Cuse Copy Share Image
When we get people who are more concerned about reading the rights to an Al Qaeda terrorist than they are with protecting… — Dick Cheney Copy Share Image
Writing stories is my way of scratching that itch: my escape from the claustrophobia of individuality. It lets me, at least for… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
Except that my father got a raise, and my mother didn't because she doesn't get paid for housework, and my sister stopped… — Stephen Chbosky Copy Share Image
Basically, I learned to read by reading 'Peanuts,' just wanting to know what they were saying. I was 4 or 5 or… — Stephan Pastis Copy Share Image
I hadn't originally intended to do any reading, what if I did read one book more or one book less, whether I… — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
“Lara Jones never fails to tell me that my reading about war makes me weird, but I can't get her fascination with… — A.S. King Copy Share Image
“To me, the raveled sleeve of care is never more painlessly knitted up than in an evening alone in a chair snug… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
I don't want to just be an athlete. I kind of obsess on that sometimes. I don't want my son to be… — Carmelo Anthony Copy Share Image
The State insists that, by thus quarantining the general reading public against books not too rugged for grown men and women in… — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
“A book is really like a lover. It arranges itself in your life in a way that is beautiful. Even as a… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
“Every book begins and ends with other people- the readers who suggest the book to us and encourage us to read it,… — Donalyn Miller Copy Share Image
In every one of these haunting and hungry poems, Howell draws a map for how to enter the heat and dew of… — Nikky Finney Copy Share Image
If you want a peaceful place to dwell Cold Mountain is guaranteed forever A light wind blows softly in the pines The… — Hanshan Copy Share Image
A screenplay is really an instruction manual, and it can be interpreted in any number of ways. The casting, the choice of… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
I got tired of reading that everybody was either coming out of the closet or they were abused or had some kind… — Jamie Farr Copy Share Image
“I have lived in worlds beyond counting and countries as strange and wonderful as the dance of dust in sunbeams, because I… — Garon Whited Copy Share Image
I also learned from reading the left-wing press about the [Franklin] Roosevelt administration's indirect support for Francisco Franco, which was not well… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Vacation reading is not a new concept. Ever since the 19th century, when novels were considered relatively sinful indulgences, leisure and fiction-reading… — Michelle Dean Copy Share Image
I was reading some books by Michel Houellebecq, and the first thing that comes to mind is that they're really funny, all… — Gaspar Noe Copy Share Image
The first time I read an excellent work, it is to me just as if I gained a new friend; and when… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
This is for anyone reading this who wants to explore it. Recognize the thought, "Afraid of loving," then gently put your hand… — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
We recommend for the training of teachers not only a considerable artistic education in general but special attention to the art of… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
If you ever had the misfortune of reading all 2,000 pages of Dodd-Frank, which I have done - and it almost killed… — Steve Eisman Copy Share Image
Nothing more rapidly inclines a person to go into a monastery than reading a book on etiquette. There are so many trivial… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
Maybe getting around in life was nothing but map-reading. A skill that required practice. A key to unlock where you wanted to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Anthropology is separated from mass reading, and that is something that bothered Margaret Mead. She always said that she wrote everything for… — Lily King Copy Share Image
Speech recognition is utterly crap for writing fiction. If you try reading a novel aloud you'll soon figure out why - written… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
I've just finished reading some of my early papers, and you know, when I'd finished I said to myself, 'Rutherford, my boy,… — Ernest Rutherford Copy Share Image
“I once learned that only three behaviors set literate people apart. The first two are obvious: reading and writing; but the third… — Roy Peter Clark Copy Share Image
Two increasing themes which appear to dominate our listening, reading and watching lives are propaganda and 'national security', or manufactured war. — John Pilger Copy Share Image
But my philosophy is that plot advancement is not what the experience of reading fiction is about. If all we care about… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The experience of reading is very interesting because you put yourself in the character's shoes and everything they're discovering, you marry the… — Ashley Zukerman Copy Share Image
A panoramic vision of Bob Dylan, his music, his shifting place in American culture, from multiple angles. In fact, reading Sean Wilentz's… — Martin Scorsese Copy Share Image
My business is not reading your messages. I don't have a business doing that. And it's against my values to do that.… — Tim Cook Copy Share Image
My best ideas come to me at unexpected moments, like when I'm reading children's books to my kids (the pictures inspire me),… — Mary Engelbreit Copy Share Image
For new media reactionaries...the problem is technology, the endless distractions of the Internet, the breakdown of authority in an age of blogs… — David L. Ulin Copy Share Image
“You learn almost as much about a thinker from what he reads—in particular, what he likes and what he disdains—as from what… — Rodney Ulyate Copy Share Image
Sundays are a good day to look at the limitless possibilities of the week ahead. The key is to prolong that feeling… — Bob Saget Copy Share Image