“Do you know I get such a passion for reading sometimes its like the other passion -writing- only the wrong side of… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I've been reading Ed Brubaker comics since the first appearance of Ed Brubaker comics and every single time he announces a new… — Brian Michael Bendis Copy Share Image
“write an article on the compulsive reading of news. The theme will be that most neuroses can be traced to the unhealthy… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature. If I were a young person today,… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Vladimir Nabokov on 'Bleak House' or Henry James on 'The House of the Seven Gables' prove that reading can be an exciting… — Joanna Scott Copy Share Image
Some writers like to work in other places like coffee shops, but I can't - I'd end up people-watching. And if I… — Julie Kagawa Copy Share Image
Actually, I'm reading a lot of my scripts. When I'm working on something, it's hard to find time. You're always prepping new… — Justin Theroux Copy Share Image
We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It's really hard to teach me anything. I can't read music. I never learned how to read music. I read books about… — Don McLean Copy Share Image
The major accomplishment of analyzing illiteracy so far has been the listing of symptoms: the decrease in functional literacy; a general degradation… — Mihai Nadin Copy Share Image
In many cases, ignorance is a good thing : the mind retains its freedom of investigation and does not stray along roads… — Jean-Henri Fabre Copy Share Image
In European and American society, many pundits started to lament the death of literature; looking at youth who were getting more and… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
Mom's a writer, so I grew up reading scripts and I have a real respect for them and I know how much… — Naomie Harris Copy Share Image
“I was in Nashville, Tennessee last year. After the show I went to a Waffle House. I'm not proud of it, I… — Bill Hicks Copy Share Image
“Wuthering Heights, however it may appear in retrospect, demands a reading of the utmost intensity, the feeling present in the writing seems… — Ian Gregor Copy Share Image
Deep reading refers to a whole continuum of processes that include some of the most important things about thinking and how we… — Maryanne Wolf Copy Share Image
I recognize in [my readers] a specific form and individual property, which our predecessors called Pantagruelism, by means of which they never… — Francois Rabelais Copy Share Image
Tilda Swinton would be a great person to a reading on because I think she is such an interesting and fascinating person.… — Tyler Henry Copy Share Image
I suppose you know where this country would be, where the world would be, if everyone who got depressed by the papers… — Sue Kaufman Copy Share Image
I never get the feeling that I've decided rationally, cold-bloodedly to write a story. On the contrary, certain events or people, sometimes… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
For me, the reading of the scriptures is not the pursuit of scholarship. Rather, it is a love affair with the word… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
If I'm reading a book and it seems truly interesting, I tend to start reading back to front in order not to… — David Shields Copy Share Image
There's nothing wrong with reading a book you love over and over. When you do, the words get inside you, become a… — Gail Carson Levine Copy Share Image
Books have to be read (worse luck it takes so long a time). It is the only way of discovering what they… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My request that my writing be read twice has aroused great indignation. Unjustly so. After all, I do not ask that they… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
Other people's creativity inspires me. Seeing great art, or reading a fab book or watching an interesting documentary or an exciting film… — Kate Cary Copy Share Image
I think a lot of young aspiring writers get misdirected; they think 'I ought to write this, even though I enjoy reading… — Jeffery Deaver Copy Share Image
Might not hurt you to pick up a book, just as an experiment." Whatever. I looked up the definition for 'nerd' in… — Brandon Mull Copy Share Image
I will now teach my son Increase (and others of my children) the way of raising a lesson out of every verse… — Cotton Mather Copy Share Image
I love reading any interesting book. If it is boring I keep it forever after reading 4-5 pages of it. But if… — Sourabh Raj Jain Copy Share Image
“On no days of our childhood did we live so fully perhaps as those we thought we had left behind without living… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
The bulk of all patents are crap. Spending time reading them is stupid. It's up to the patent owner to do so,… — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
At the State of the Union address last night, President Obama made history by using the words transgender, lesbian, and bisexual in… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
I learned little save that most of the deeds, good and bad both, incurring opprobrium or plaudits or reward either, within the… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
I'd begun reading Crumb shortly before that, and other underground stuff, so that was an influence to some degree. Of course the… — Chester Brown Copy Share Image
I haven't read enough of the Bible. You know, I'm saving the Bible for if I ever get imprisoned, and the only… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
I've just finished reading Reality Hunger and I'm lit up by it-astonished, intoxicated, ecstatic, overwhelmed. . . . It really is an… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
“Mom is a compulsive reader. She reads for pleasure, she reads to edify herself, but more often than not, she reads because… — Michael Perry Copy Share Image
Les Misérables etches Hugo's view of the world so deeply in the mind that it is impossible to be the same person… — Graham Robb Copy Share Image
I never tell students they cannot read a book they pick up, but I do guide them toward books that I think… — Donalyn Miller Copy Share Image
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