I'm getting ready to write a piece now, and it's been six months thinking about it, changing the instrumentation, changing the name,… — John Zorn Copy Share Image
All the reading in the world cannot immunize you from the devastating effects of psychopaths. Everyone, including the experts, can be taken… — Robert D. Hare Copy Share Image
“By reading only six hours a-day, I shall gain in the course of a twelve-month a great deal of instruction which I… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I was reading a lot of Thomas Jefferson at the time, and Jefferson said that every 20 years, if one party has… — Dennis Hopper Copy Share Image
Never, ever exercise in front of a TV or while reading. You lose 50 percent of the benefit of the exercise by… — Kevin R. Stone Copy Share Image
Fans, for the past two weeks you have been reading about a bad break I got. Yet today, I consider myself the… — Lou Gehrig Copy Share Image
The Sonnets of Shakespeare have the fascination of an autobiography, without its clarity. It is like reading an important document in a… — Gilbert Highet Copy Share Image
I just downloaded '1984' for my iPod, but I've read that before. It just hearkens back to the 'romance' of my high-school… — Lupe Fiasco Copy Share Image
When you are in the midst of writing a book, I think it is important to touch base every day. If I… — Emma Healey Copy Share Image
One of the things is that the good intentions of Prohibition, from reading over the years and from becoming obsessed with the… — Martin Scorsese Copy Share Image
The 'means of grace' are such as Bible reading, private prayer, and regularly worshiping God in Church, wherein one hears the Word… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
The narrator blames the birds. And you want to blame the birds as well. I blamed the birds for a long time.… — Richard Siken Copy Share Image
“The rage for swiftness which is so characteristic of this restless time has been extended to fashions of reading. One effect of… — Arlo Bates Copy Share Image
My feeling, however, is that films that are open are more productive for the audience. The films that, if I'm in a… — Michael Haneke Copy Share Image
...Mr. Wodehouse is a prose stylist of such startling talent that Frankie nearly skipped around with glee when she first read some… — E. Lockhart Copy Share Image
I remember one letter from a girl in a midwestern town who read one of my books and thought she had discovered… — J. P. Donleavy Copy Share Image
I was reading about how countless species are being pushed toward extinction by man's destruction of forests. . . . Sometimes I… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
“I won't stay in with married men any more said the wise girl they're too agreeable, it's a little too much like… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
Despite the enormous quantity of books, how few people read! And if one reads profitably, one would realize how much stupid stuff… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“Back at home they drew the curtains and read, with disapproval, with relish, with avidity and glee - even the ones who'd… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
A lot of people I read start off as skeptics or nonbelievers. There comes a point in every reading when you see… — Tyler Henry Copy Share Image
“In short, our gentleman became so caught up in reading that he spent his nights reading from dusk till dawn and his… — Edith Grossman Copy Share Image
I decided I don't want to go for the top job now. I could be working for another 25 years and I'd… — Yvette Cooper Copy Share Image
“Reading, as it turned out, is the easy part. Finding a good book is the real challenge. It's a crapshoot. It's like… — Doug Robinson Copy Share Image
I know I have a problem with semi-colon abuse and have written page-long sentences. Nobody needs to be reading page-long sentences, at… — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
Both of my parents have a really sharp eye for reading people through their homes. Reading people through the kind of person… — Julio Torres Copy Share Image
I keep waiting for someone to cast me as the angel or the witch or the immortal of some kind because so… — Lorraine Toussaint Copy Share Image
The research reading I did for Fascination and Liberation included some Jung, and I noticed that he had a similar impression of… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
The object of the novelist is to keep the reader entirely oblivious of the fact that the author exists - even of… — Ford Madox Ford Copy Share Image
Reading Bukowski and Burroughs and Henry Miller doesn't necessarily mean that a kid is going to try to emulate their debauchery to… — David Sheff Copy Share Image
If you look at a lot of traditional societies, they're all organized along what we might call anarchist guidelines, but it's not… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Critics are usually kinder to cheaper movies than to those they perceive to be big Hollywood releases. They cut you a lot… — Ethan Coen Copy Share Image
The schizophrenic is drowning in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight. Edgar Cayce made the same observation in… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“It was as if I'd been in the middle of a book that I had to put down when I got too… — Joyce Maynard Copy Share Image
Has any man ever obtained inner harmony by simply reading about the experiences of others? Not since the world began has it… — Norman Douglas Copy Share Image
“I was born with the impression that what happened in books was much for reasonable, and interesting, and real, in some ways,… — Anne Tyler Copy Share Image
We get so many people saying short fiction is not economical, that it doesn't sell; but there are so many of us… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
In a school community, someone who reads a book for some secretive purpose, other than discussing it, is strange. What was she… — John Irving Copy Share Image
“I had never known the pleasure of reading, of exploring the recesses of the soul, of letting myself be carried away by… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
Most plays that are missed by the umpire are caused by the umpire not reading those cues early enough and making the… — Jim Evans Copy Share Image
