Trying to find ideas is the hardest part of my job. You'd think it would be the most fun. Just sitting around… — Erik Larson Copy Share Image
To teach a child an instrument without first giving him preparatory training and without developing singing, reading and dictating to the highest… — Zoltan Kodaly Copy Share Image
I never had a single female professor throughout my whole education, from the beginning of university to the end. Even all the… — Margaret Geller Copy Share Image
I'm entranced by the idea of reading the culture back to itself, because I'm conscious that we as people and also as… — Daphne Gottlieb Copy Share Image
Reading has always been the largest and most irreplaceable pleasure for Vincent; reading about other people's successes and failures, joys and sufferings… — Irving Stone Copy Share Image
A big thing that gets people in trouble in the kitchen is not reading the recipe from start to finish before you… — Gail Simmons Copy Share Image
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“And when she died, she was lonely, and scared, and she missed her books. And she pretty much just got up and… — Tim Byrd Copy Share Image
It is time to return to close reading, to a serious and painstaking examination of an author's methods, of his style. Do… — Louis Aragon Copy Share Image
I remember reading this thing that Elizabeth Taylor wrote. She had her first kiss in character. On a movie set. It really… — Emma Watson Copy Share Image
I think I became a better writer after I started writing for the New Yorker. Well, I know I did. And part… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
Finally, this is one way to reconcile the delight in beauty with the bourgeois life. Aschenbach, on one reading, has spent virtually… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
“If anybody would make me the greatest king that ever lived, with palaces and gardens, and fine dinners, and wine and coaches,… — Thomas Babington Macaulay Copy Share Image
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The best scripts I read are usually pretty - they move really quickly, there's not a lot of exposition in between all… — Kirsten Dunst Copy Share Image
But reading is different, reading is something you do. With TV, and cinema for that matter, everything's handed to you on a… — Daniel Pennac Copy Share Image
It blew my mind, reading Swing Time, that I could take any sentence in the book, and it was one of the… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
es, I spend a lot of time in Reading because we live in Oxfordshire and so we're always just in and out… — Kate Winslet Copy Share Image
The joy of reading can take you so many different places. In addition to intelligence and stretching your mind, I just think… — Gayle King Copy Share Image
As parents, the most important thing we can do is read to our children early and often. Reading is the path to… — Laura Bush Copy Share Image
Because lots of LGBTQ people are really smart, and there's so much really interesting reading that can be done, and so much… — Joe Lycett Copy Share Image
“Read. Read. Read. Just don't read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that you develop different style.” — R.L. Stine Copy Share Image
I think the written word is my first love. I was just a very imagination - centered child and a big part… — Zoe Kazan Copy Share Image
I know that books seem like the ultimate thing that's made by one person, but that's not true. Every reading of a… — John Green Copy Share Image
I wasn't a big comic book reader. I always had trouble knowing which box to read next. I was always reading from… — Tim Burton Copy Share Image
I like reading books that provide you with knowledge that you previously didn't have. And books you have a chance to grow… — Megan Fox Copy Share Image
Right now I'm reading every fashion magazine I can find. As a shoe designer, I feel it's my responsibility to learn as… — Fergie Copy Share Image
“We get one chance at this life. We have one body, one mind, and one life to live. Reading provides us with… — Tony Reinke Copy Share Image
It's true that in reading an interview, I have a little critique of the objectification of women in a [Playboy] magazine that… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
In these pages your imaginations, your desires, your passions are given life; Thoughts take shape that turn into dreams and our aspirations… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
We're not just writers; we're readers probably more than anything else. That's how you learn how to write and how you learn… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
At the time I was taught to read, it was an Eden-like time of my life. My mother adored me. Everyone adored… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
I don't believe any of you have ever read Paradise Lost, and you don't want to. That's something that you just want… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Having a sense of fun in books is a huge, huge deal, because a lot of times kids - even me when… — Dav Pilkey Copy Share Image
People wonder why the novel is the most popular form of literature; people wonder why it is read more than books of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I write a lot. I used to write a lot of poetry when I was younger, write for my school newspapers. Also… — Cakes da killa Copy Share Image
By establishing reading societies, and subscription libraries, and taking these under our direction, and supplying them through our labors, we may turn… — Adam Weishaupt Copy Share Image
I definitely rediscovered reading for pleasure by devoting such a large swath of my time to sitting on airplanes. I am now… — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
“Books are finite, sexual encounters are finite, but the desire to read and to fuck is infinite; it surpasses our own deaths,… — Roberto Bolano Copy Share Image
I spent much of my childhood in northern Quebec, and often there was no radio, no television - there wasn't a lot… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image