I stopped reading articles about myself. Even if it's not bad, I think actively caring about people's daily perception of you makes… — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
“Always be reading something, he said. Even when we’re not physically reading. How else will we read the world? Think of it… — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
I started out in life as a poet; I was only writing poetry all through my 20s. It wasn't until I was… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Farewell all relations and friends in Christ; farewell acquaintances and all earthly enjoyments; farewell reading and preaching, praying and believing, wanderings, reproaches,… — Donald Cargill Copy Share Image
“Aesthetic criticism returns us to the autonomy of imaginative literature and the sovereignty of the solitary soul, the reader not as a… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
I turned down the first script offered to me, and the second. I lay on my back one day under an umbrella,… — Conrad Veidt Copy Share Image
Only the slow reader will notice the odd crowd of images-flier, butcher, seal-which have gathered to comment on the aims and activities… — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
When I start to write, words have become physical presence. It was to see if I could bring that private world to… — John McGahern Copy Share Image
“But in a few years more perhaps there may be; for, deep within us as the ghost instinct lurks, I seem to… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
If you want to understand your government, don't begin by reading the Constitution. (It conveys precious little of the flavor of today's… — George Will Copy Share Image
While we pay lip service to the virtues of reading, the truth is that there is still in our culture something that… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“This book might also be seen as “a Christian primer.” A primer teaches us how to read. Reading is not just about… — Marcus J. Borg Copy Share Image
“Want to inspire your kids to read more? Try giving them kids some money to spend just on a book. Take them… — Melanie Kirk Copy Share Image
I haven't felt the excitement of listening to as well as creating music along with reading and writing for too many years… — Freddie Mercury Copy Share Image
“She wanted to read things -- could not resist wanting to read things -- and reading was easily done, and relatively inexpensive.… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
And that's how I start myself. I usually go back a couple of pages, maybe to the beginning of the chapter, and… — Jean M. Auel Copy Share Image
I feel like the books that I'm reading at any given time will really help me with my work, because it's just… — Ellie Bamber Copy Share Image
We read five words on the first page of a really good novel and we begin to forget that we are reading… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. The English reading public explains the… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
I find it an absolute pleasure to read travel guides, especially the Michelin guides, and their description of places I know I'll… — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
I read most often when I am on the road, travelling on my journeys. In cars, on planes, trains... I'm very lucky… — Steve Backshall Copy Share Image
reading is a private act, private even from the person who wrote the book. Once the novel is out there, the author… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
“That's my point: if you own thirty or more books, or you are reading any book at this moment, you may protest… — Thomas Geoghegan Copy Share Image
I am reading six books at once, the only way of reading; since, as you will agree, one book is only a… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
When you're younger and you see something that really speaks to you, it's indelible in a way that's not the same as… — Nina Jacobson Copy Share Image
The readings of Soviet society are as many as the experts you speak to. In my view, it's a society that is… — E. P. Thompson Copy Share Image
I've always been more natural at doing hosting things: reading teleprompters, taking direction and ask-ing questions... I'm actually able to perform a… — Vinny Guadagnino Copy Share Image
Like many writers, I'm usually more interested in reading about authors than their actual works. We're more curious to know how they… — Hallgrimur Helgason Copy Share Image
I always try to incorporate something in every book that I've never used before. Hopefully, spontaneity will keep readers reading. — Sandra Brown Copy Share Image
Reading reassures us that no matter how alone we might feel, there are many others - spread as wide as history itself… — Simon Van Booy Copy Share Image
“I think part of why I have so many books around me and why I read every day is because I mythologize… — Philip Seymour Hoffman Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of cryptography in this world: cryptography that will stop your kid sister from reading your files, and cryptography… — Bruce Schneier Copy Share Image
I went to Berlin for a year and a half, and that's where I learned about culture and art and everything. Before… — Lea Seydoux Copy Share Image
I try not to set myself up as different or as a celebrity or special. I have a husband that can get… — Iyanla Vanzant Copy Share Image
“I love to read books. I love to read anything really, even the back of the cereal box. But there is nothing… — Rachel Wojnarowski Copy Share Image
After more than sixty years of almost daily reading of the Bible, I never fail to find it always new and marvelously… — Cecil B. DeMille Copy Share Image
“I suck the words word-dry to me, assimilated orderly at breakeye speed still hard and harder softer then line-lined book-dry ‘til not… — Chila Woychik Copy Share Image
Underneath the visible problems with reading and writing lies the deeper problem of 'illearnacy': an acquired disabling of learning courage and learning… — Guy Claxton Copy Share Image
On the wings of fancy, gentle readers, bear yourselves into the mid-air, where by imagination you may form a large stupendous castle. — Sarah Fielding Copy Share Image
Pace is in the mind many times. You've got physical pace but pace in thinking, in reading the game. That's always been… — Eidur Gudjohnsen Copy Share Image
