Like many authors, I caught the writing bug during my teenage years. I don't remember the exact day or year, but I… — Ally Carter Copy Share Image
My perfect day is constantly changing. Right now, it would be to lie around in a hammock reading with a portable phone… — Eric Stoltz Copy Share Image
Reading aloud is the best advertisement because it works. It allows a child to sample the delights of reading and conditions him… — Jim Trelease Copy Share Image
As long as no more than a small minority are capable of reading and writing, universal alphabetization seems like a messianic project.… — Peter Sloterdijk Copy Share Image
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Some of the things you read you get an immediate reaction to so I've stopped reading things now. I do worry about… — Russell Crowe Copy Share Image
There is a logic [to my reading], but I can't define it. I like reading impulsively. I collect books, I have a… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
Misreading is a big part of reading, the way in which the level of attention you're paying can lead to some interesting… — Brian Evenson Copy Share Image
A lot of our assumptions of the world are fairly cynical, fairly negative, and assume the worst. What our reading tastes show… — Deborah Harkness Copy Share Image
“I knew all about reading a lot. About how it could take you to a world that was better than the real… — Chelsea Sedoti Copy Share Image
I'd been a psychiatric social worker for 17 years, but within 24 hours after I started the case against studying reading Bible… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
Natalie Lyalin is writing some of the best poems in the world. There is an evil in her gorgeous poem-hearts. She must… — Zachary Schomburg Copy Share Image
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[Thich Nhat Hanh] the one that revolutionized Buddhism. Instead of being monks just engaged in meditation, it was active Buddhism. You went… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
Shut the door, they're coming through the window, shut the window, they're coming through the door," are the words to an old… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Books were everywhere, lined neatly on shelves that went from floor to ceiling. The ceiling was two stories high, with an upper… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
I never read Ford Madox Ford's "The Good Soldier." I've been reading books that I should have read years ago and did… — Stephen Dobyns Copy Share Image
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I have suffered from bullying in many ways, from bullying in school due to my disability in reading, to digital abuse that… — Bella Thorne Copy Share Image
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It is a very good exercise, at least from a historian's point of view, to imagine oneself a devout pagan while reading… — Ramsay MacMullen Copy Share Image
“Bring on the controversy. I write real life. It's harsh and sometimes gritty, but it's real. Why should we tip toe around… — Shandy L. Kurth Copy Share Image
Again, let's pay all due respect to De Palma and put him over here so we're not saying, "Mine's deeper, mine's better."… — Kimberly Peirce Copy Share Image
I'm not an A student; I'm not even a B student, but I've gotten a lot better with the reading because of… — R. Kelly Copy Share Image
I like a book. I like to read for four hours at a stretch. I think very few are the young people… — Lee Smith Copy Share Image
If the reader enters a kind of immersive experience reading a book, then I have to enter a kind of immersive state… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
I want kids to think that reading can be just as much fun and more so than TV or video games or… — Louis Sachar Copy Share Image
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If a book told you something when you were fifteen, it will tell you it again when you're fifty, though you may… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
He’s not your typical prince, more like a square peg in a round hole, kind of like me. He’s the sort of… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
The reading of the song is vital. The written word is first always . . . first. Not belittling the music, but… — Frank Sinatra Copy Share Image
I just... my childhood seems, when I look back, to be largely composed of reading, lying on the bed. I mean, my… — Helen Garner Copy Share Image
Instead of becoming a great shikari, as my mother and stepfather might have wished, I had become an incurable bookworm and was… — Ruskin Bond Copy Share Image
When you read with your child, you show them that reading is important, but you also show them they're important - that… — Laura Bush Copy Share Image
I read everything by Ian McEwan, he is so elegant. I love reading anything about Shakespeare, too. He is my first love.… — Kate Fleetwood Copy Share Image
The most important habit is solitude, quiet time. People who enter their day by taking 45 minutes or an hour for themselves… — Ken Blanchard Copy Share Image
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I've given up reading the papers. Since the world's so obviously bent on killing itself, I decided months ago to sit back… — Sarah Waters Copy Share Image
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