Reading texts is no substitute for meditation and practicing Zen. If you read a book about a place, and you want to… — Bill Porter Copy Share Image
I grew up in a household where reading was encouraged. My mother believed in the power of words, and my father obviously… — Caroline Kennedy Copy Share Image
The big problem in America is that everyone is spending 2-3 hours a day watching TV. If you spend that same amount… — Jack Canfield Copy Share Image
If you're reading a mystery novel, you kind of want the character to solve the crime instead of completely bumble their way… — Andrew Shaffer Copy Share Image
Criticism starts - it has to start - with a real passion for reading. It can come in adolescence, even in your… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
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“Reading is a respite from the restlessness of technology, but it's not only that. It's how I reset and recharge. It's how… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
This book was written in those long hours I spent waiting for my wife to get dressed to go out. And if… — Groucho Marx Copy Share Image
in reading ... stories, you can be many different people in many different places, doing things you would never have a chance… — Natalie Babbitt Copy Share Image
I had been reading about [John] Calvin for years and had been studying the English Renaissance for many more years, and it… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
If I'm writing a story and you're reading it, or vice versa, you took time out of your day to pick up… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
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One can't prescribe books, even the best books, to people unless one knows a good deal about each individual person. If a… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
I remember once asking Grandma about a book she was reading, a biography of Abraham Lincoln, and how she answered me: this… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
I think the takeaway is 'The Guest Book' is incredibly unexpected in every way. I know, when I was reading the script,… — Kellie Martin Copy Share Image
I think imagination is at the heart of everything we do. Scientific discoveries couldn't have happened without imagination. Art, music, and literature… — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
I would not read the proof of one of my books for any fair & reasonable sum whatever, if I could get… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
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Television watching does reduce reading and often encroaches on homework. Much of it is admittedly the intellectual equivalent of junk food. But… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
There is a temperate zone in the mind, between luxurious indolence and exacting work; and it is to this region, just between… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
I know as a child, I was really interested in becoming a manga artist, to create my own stories and illustrate them… — Shigeru Miyamoto Copy Share Image
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There's something touching about a kid who's reading a book that's printed on actual paper. I think that anything that kids start… — Josh Radnor Copy Share Image
Reading and writing, arithmetic and grammar do not constitute education, any more than a knife, fork and spoon constitute a dinner. — John Lubbock Copy Share Image
I, too, dislike it. Reading it, however, with a perfect contempt for it, one discovers in it, after all, a place for… — Marianne Moore Copy Share Image
When you get a character that you're just starting to work on, it's the most exciting and most terrifying feeling because you… — Chris Wood Copy Share Image
“To read is to translate, for no two persons' experiences are the same. A bad reader is like a bad translator: he… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You could buy my book in a paperback edition for a dollar, and in hard covers for $3.50. And for fifty cents… — Bob Hope Copy Share Image
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I definitely want to act and I want to sing. If those two fall through, I want to become a writer, probably,… — Cassie Steele Copy Share Image
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“[Acknowledgments] I recommend them all for further reading, but when you're finished, you may have to read several of my books and… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
I'm working on a young adult novel. I've been working on it for a while, because I don't know how to write… — Morgan Parker Copy Share Image
No characters in 'Stay Close,' including the leads, are black and white. I want them to be grey. I think that makes… — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
Reading is awesome and flexible and fits around chores and earning money and building the future and whatever else I’m doing that… — Jo Walton Copy Share Image
If religion and churches are truly threats to our liberties, how did those liberties survive, and in such healthy condition, all those… — William Murchison Copy Share Image
Adventurous reading allows one to escape a little from the provincialities of one's home culture and the blinders of one's narrow self. — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
I used to love reading, but since I've started writing, it's harder for me to immerse, because I spend so much time… — Paolo Bacigalupi Copy Share Image
I liked early Amis a lot, but I stopped reading him some time ago. I admire Hitchens on literary topics - I… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
After the first few readings in comedy venues I did begin to write for laughs. There's something so gratifying about stimulating laughter. — Aaron Belz Copy Share Image
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