New York is a city of conversations overheard, of people at the next restaurant table (micrometers away) checking your watch, of people… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Anyways, I am a nerd, bookworm, geek... whatever you want to call me. I'm the type of person that would rather sit… — Jacqueline Emerson Copy Share Image
Shakespeare is one of the reasons I've stayed an actor. Sometimes I spend full days doing Shakespeare by myself, just for the… — Al Pacino Copy Share Image
Geisha because when I was living in Japan, I met a fellow whose mother was a geisha, and I thought that was… — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
I remember when I was reading 'The Bear,' I was reading as a kid. All these years later, one returns to that… — David Milch Copy Share Image
Four of my children are daughters, and I've watched them devote themselves to reading books about how little girls learn to become… — Robert K. Massie Copy Share Image
But at the same time, never having final cut before, I really learned an interesting thing for any studio executive who is… — Griffin Dunne Copy Share Image
The result of your fifty or sixty years of religious reading in the four words: 'Be just and good,' is that in… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I was a reader. I loved reading. Reading things gave me pleasure. I was very good at most subjects in school, not… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
As far as nonviolence and Spiritual Activism, Marshall Rosenberg is it! Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life, is essential reading for anyone… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
“They [sensing types] will not skim in reading, and they hate to have people skim in conversation. Believing that matters inferred are… — Isabel Briggs Myers Copy Share Image
A lot of people who want to see the short story have a renaissance of readership - they tend to think of… — Lorin Stein Copy Share Image
I'm still a bit of a reading glutton, I think, because I browse, read a bit of the back copy, flip through… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
Hemingway was really early. I probably started reading him when I was just eleven or twelve. There was just something magnetic to… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
Reading is a pleasure of the mind, which means that it is a little like a sport: your eagerness and knowledge and… — Bennett Cerf Copy Share Image
“Chicken Soup for the Soul". You've heard of these books, am I right? We've all heard of them. But I wonder if… — Marisa de los Santos Copy Share Image
“Lay down a method also for your reading; let it be in a consistent and consecutive course, and not in that desultory… — Earl of Chesterfield Copy Share Image
While I was thinking about the next film to do, I was also reading this book by Diane Ackerman called 'The Natural… — Jeremy Podeswa Copy Share Image
“You may think that you don't want to read about the problems of being brought up Mennonite, but the great thing about… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“Inspiration is everywhere so don't get trapped in reading and watching too much. Get out. Talk to people, friends, family, loved ones.… — Arnold Arre Copy Share Image
I've stopped reading the comments below news articles and on gossip blogs because those are the ones that'll ruin your day in… — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
As I was reading the book [Superficial: More Adventures from the Andy Cohen Diaries] I kept thinking, "Sweetie, you are dancing as… — Anderson Cooper Copy Share Image
It's very easy, when we're reading those articles on the 20th page of 'The New York Times,' to distance ourselves and say,… — Lynn Nottage Copy Share Image
“For me, stories are like WD-40 for the brain: they keep all the wheels and gears and clicky-things running smoothly. Without them,… — The Inkslinger Copy Share Image
I even smoke in bed. Imagine smoking a cigar in bed, reading a book. Next to your bed, there's a cigar table… — Raul Julia Copy Share Image
The greatest thing you can do in life is to tell a young boy or girl that they're 'the very best' at… — Charles Kuralt Copy Share Image
I have been involved with the Roundabout for over a decade. Every once in a while, they'd give me a call to… — James Rebhorn Copy Share Image
My attraction to story is a ceaseless current that runs through the center of me. My inexhaustible ardor for reading seems connected… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
I'm enough of an anarchist aesthetically, when it comes to art - I want people to be reading my stuff voluntarily. They… — Nell Zink Copy Share Image
The gift of literature is that, in some lucky cases, reading a novel or a story makes the reader more curious, more… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
I always know exactly where my stories take place, which gives me something certain so I can use my imagination for the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We read to understand, or to begin to understand. We cannot do but to read. Reading almost as much as breathing, is… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
Instead of reading a paper, we now read the news online. Instead of buying books at a store, we buy them on-line.… — Ha-Joon Chang Copy Share Image
All of the narration in 'Smile' is first-person. Most of the books that I grew up reading had first-person narrators for some… — Raina Telgemeier Copy Share Image
W. C. Fields, a lifetime agnostic, was discovered reading a Bible on his deathbed. ''I'm looking for a loop-hole,'' he explained. — W. C. Fields Copy Share Image
In academic circles, especially, I was criticized for lacking morals, values, and ethics. I'm feeding that angry feminist reading of my work. — Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook Copy Share Image
I read a lot of poetry. All types of poetry, but mostly Catalan poetry, because I believe poetry is the essence of… — Jaume Cabre Copy Share Image
When it comes to the point where you occasionally look forward to being in prison on the basis that you might be… — Julian Assange Copy Share Image
I just started reading lots of books and then called the United Nations and asked if they could educate me. The more… — Angelina Jolie Copy Share Image
“Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily,often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul"-- Joyce Carole Oates” — Anonymous Copy Share Image