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
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
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
“Reading is action. Even though it is often done quietly and alone, reading is a profoundly social activity, and a vigorous and… — J. Paul Hunter Copy Share Image
“The constant steaming in of thoughts of others must suppress and confine our own and indeed in the long run paralyze the… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“I asked her what a true story was because I thought that all stories were made up. She said a true story… — Rebecca Lloyd Copy Share Image
“Once I was asked be a seatmate on a trans-Pacific flight…what instruction he should give his fifteen-year-old daughters, who wanted to be… — Barry Lopez Copy Share Image
Acts themselves alone are history, and these are neither the exclusive property of Hume, Gibbon nor Voltaire, Echard, Rapin, Plutarch, nor Herodotus.… — William Blake Copy Share Image
Sometimes I'll say, "I wrote that book," and the person will look at you as if you're really strange. One time that… — Judy Blume Copy Share Image
Reading, I had learned, was as creative a process as writing, sometimes more so. When we read of the dying rays of… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
“Michelle, since the first day I met you I knew you were the one for me. I knew that I would make… — Blaque Diamond Copy Share Image
Reading a newspaper is like reading someone's letters, as opposed to a biography or a history. The writer really does not know… — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
Considering Adrian had once gotten bored while reading while reading a particularly long menu, I had a hard time imagining he'd read… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
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
With my writing, I generally just pretend that no one's reading it. I allow myself that delusion so that I can write… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
“Why do you want a new truth when you do not practice what you already know? Far better to read a few… — Eknath Easwaran Copy Share Image
I feel guilty if I'm not reading books, but I read scripts of movies or things that I know I'm committed to… — Jim Gaffigan Copy Share Image
“He let the hours go by lost in the magic of words, shedding his skin and his name, feeling like another person.… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
The art of fiction is one of constant seduction. You must persuade the reader on page 1 to start reading - on… — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
Before you take your address, while you're still reading the putt, imagine the ball tracking on the line you've chosen and falling… — Ernie Els Copy Share Image
Reading student papers, blue books, etc., a form of torture ... a matter of rubbing an iron file over one's teeth, or… — Newton Arvin Copy Share Image
You can try reading books that will help you be a leader, like Marshall Rosenberg and Thich Nhat Hanh. Be very humble… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
I remember reading once that some fellows use language to conceal thought; but it's been my experience that a good many more… — George Horace Lorimer Copy Share Image
Sookie, what have we done? And to whom?" "I killed a chicken. And I cooked it." "Sookie, Sookie. My bullshit meter is… — Charlaine Harris Copy Share Image
I literally grew up reading the papers about my existence... that I was a love child. To a kid, it doesn't make… — Masaba Gupta Copy Share Image
I go back and forth between input phases where I'm reading a lot or trying to get out and explore the world… — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
We book people are always preaching about reading aloud to children, but unless you do, you can't realize how it enriches family… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
There's no architect who doesn't want to build a library - and I am no different. With so much scrutiny now attached… — Annabelle Selldorf Copy Share Image
The book-worm wraps himself up in his web of verbal generalities, and sees only the glimmering shadows of things reflected from the… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Reading was my only escape from reality. Through books, I could be whoever I wanted. I could fall in love with the… — Teresa Mummert Copy Share Image
I'm reading Our Ecstatic Days, by Steve Erickson. It's an extraordinary journey and the most exciting thing I've found since The Master… — Sienna Guillory Copy Share Image
I pluck up the good lissome herbs of sentences by pruning, eat them by reading, digest them by musing, and lay them… — Elizabeth I Copy Share Image
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