A good interviewer is able to ferret out what the applicant is really passionate about. Ask them what they do for fun,… — Nolan Bushnell Copy Share Image
Repeat reading for me shares a few things with hot-water bottles and thumbsucking: comfort, familiarity, the recurrence of the expected. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
If you actually succeed in creating a utopia, you've created a world without conflict, in which everything is perfect. And if there's… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
I read a book called The Art of Loving. A lot of things seemed clear while I was reading it but afterwards… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
Speak Peace sums up decades of healing and peacework. It would be hard to list all the kinds of people who can… — Michael N. Nagler Copy Share Image
I was an unplanned pregnancy between two teenagers in Reading, Pennsylvania, and they ended up getting married. They started out struggling. — John Fetterman Copy Share Image
Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
I think when I was 12, I started reading Evelyn Waugh, and I loved Evelyn Waugh so much, and I thought: 'This… — Candace Bushnell Copy Share Image
“Do you know the feeling when you start reading a new book before the membrane of the last one has had time… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
Are we reading the Constitution and pondering it? Are we aware of its principles? Are we abiding by these principles and teaching… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
Of course a poem is a two-way street. No poem is any good if it doesn't suggest to the reader things from… — James Laughlin Copy Share Image
Master those books you have. Read them thoroughly. Bathe in them until they saturate you. Read and reread them…digest them. Let them… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you have a character that seems to be all perfect, it's hard to relate to him because when you read a… — Stan Lee Copy Share Image
Learning is not automatic. You do not automatically know how to read because you turn five. Most of us are sensitive to… — Marion D. Hanks Copy Share Image
“Fiction can show you a different world. It can take you somewhere you've never been. Once you've visited other worlds, like those… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
We always talk about how everyone is unifocal. You can't possibly be interested in jazz and Beethoven. Of course you can. You… — Harold Evans Copy Share Image
I know you're supposed to hide your influences, but I suppose I see writing as riffing, really, about whatever you have been… — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
Though he was not a reader himself, my father understood that reading is not just an escape. It is access to a… — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
“Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses… — Timothy Ferriss Copy Share Image
“She sewed as she read. For the Vicar considered that sewing was an occupation and that reading was not. He was silent… — May Sinclair Copy Share Image
I always compare reading anything on the Internet to listening at doors. If you don't want to hear anything bad about yourself,… — Mark Gatiss Copy Share Image
“Your words seduced me,captured and imprisoned me in a world of wonders. Enthralled, I lie at your feet,slayed and yearning for more… — D.Alma Copy Share Image
Reading was my escape and my comfort, my consolation, my stimulant of choice: reading for the pure pleasure of it, for the… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I was always reading about the Premier League. It has been a big dream and one that came true. But it is… — Memphis Depay Copy Share Image
I don't remember my father reading to me, but I remember him telling me bedtime stories. I got to pick what was… — Caroline Kennedy Copy Share Image
When you read something, and especially when you're reading compellingly great, that becomes part of your identity, at least while you're reading… — David Ferry Copy Share Image
I do believe that in every age there are people whose consciousness transcends their own time and that these people, whether fictional… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
A blessed companion is a book--a book that, fitly chosen, is a lifelong friend...a book that, at a touch, pours its heart… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Don't see the point in reading ghost-written autobiographies, even though some of these published lives may fascinate me. The 'ghost' is always… — Gary Kemp Copy Share Image
We all know that reading is an invaluable life skill. It is vital for children in their education and as they take… — Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall Copy Share Image
We do not truly own our thoughts or experiences until we have negotiated them with ourselvesand for this writing is the prime… — Carl Bereiter Copy Share Image
“If all your responses to a book have already been duplicated and expanded upon by a professional critic, then what point is… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“This is a place where books are treasured – books that hold the sweetly magical smell of history; books that crackle when… — Cassia Leo Copy Share Image
When I recorded my solo album, 'Keep It Hid,' in 2008, I'd gotten more interested in songwriting, inspired by reading Charles Bukowski… — Dan Auerbach Copy Share Image
I'm not reading what I write when I wrote. It's an unconscious outpouring that's a mess, and it's many, many steps away… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
Reading and writing is so important, and it's something I am really keen to promote. It's something that can be a bit… — Frank Lampard Copy Share Image
The reason I moved to Nashville was because I was reading biographies of a lot of my country music heroes, and I… — Lindi Ortega Copy Share Image
The hearing aids are very helpful for speech reading. Without the hearing aids, my voice becomes very loud, and I cannot control… — Marlee Matlin Copy Share Image
I grew up loving books and stories. Reading became my favourite pastime, and you have to be a reader before you can… — Sandra Brown Copy Share Image
A good book, in the language of the book-sellers, is a salable one; in that of the curious, a scarce one; in… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
