My perfect day is constantly changing. Right now, it would be to lie around in a hammock reading with a portable phone… — Eric Stoltz Copy Share Image
As long as no more than a small minority are capable of reading and writing, universal alphabetization seems like a messianic project.… — Peter Sloterdijk Copy Share Image
Reading aloud is the best advertisement because it works. It allows a child to sample the delights of reading and conditions him… — Jim Trelease Copy Share Image
My dad is a Jack Nicholson lookalike and a frustrated performer, my mother's into reading and poetry. I suppose the thing I… — Michael Sheen Copy Share Image
Some of the things you read you get an immediate reaction to so I've stopped reading things now. I do worry about… — Russell Crowe Copy Share Image
I never read Ford Madox Ford's "The Good Soldier." I've been reading books that I should have read years ago and did… — Stephen Dobyns Copy Share Image
Misreading is a big part of reading, the way in which the level of attention you're paying can lead to some interesting… — Brian Evenson Copy Share Image
There is a logic [to my reading], but I can't define it. I like reading impulsively. I collect books, I have a… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
“A poem exists only in the relation between poet and reader. And I'm in need of my readers, except that they never… — Mahmoud Darwish Copy Share Image
There's lots of things that can be solved with cash. And there's occasional things that can't be solved with cash, which become… — Danny Boyle Copy Share Image
“When writing, there are some scenes that are emotionally overwhelming. They completely overcome the author, and only when they do this can… — Dean F. Wilson Copy Share Image
If reading becomes a bore, mental death is on the way. Children taught to read by tedious mechanical means rapidly learn to… — Joan Aiken Copy Share Image
The virtue of binary is that it's the simplest possible way of representing numbers. Anything else is more complicated. You can catch… — George M. Whitesides Copy Share Image
When I re-read the Odyssey, it felt like I was reading PD James or Minette Walters - you feel that you are… — Robert Dessaix Copy Share Image
People have been reading photography as a true document, at the same time they are now getting suspicious. I am basically an… — Hiroshi Sugimoto Copy Share Image
I remember how a man once got in touch with me to tell me that he was so engrossed in my book… — Ashwin Sanghi Copy Share Image
I've found that when the market's going down and you buy funds wisely, at some point in the future you will be… — Peter Lynch Copy Share Image
When I'm going to see a comedian, I don't want to see them hold back, and when I'm reading a book, I… — Kathy Griffin Copy Share Image
I think that players that are better at reading people are much more dangerous and difficult to play against, because then you… — Jason Mercier Copy Share Image
Difference is always the biggest challenge for humans. That's why we do enjoy reading or watching movies or watching TV. It's a… — Franka Potente Copy Share Image
The Gatsby that I remember reading when I was 15 years old in junior high school was far different from the Gatsby… — Leonardo DiCaprio Copy Share Image
“Life is a book that someone else is reading—and you, a key character—hence the need for continual conflict and resolution. We can't… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
I'm referred to, I see, as 'the biggest banker in modern publishing'. Now there's a line that needed the celebrated Guardian proof-reading. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Like many authors, I caught the writing bug during my teenage years. I don't remember the exact day or year, but I… — Ally Carter Copy Share Image
You can look in a book of wrong and learn more right. If you're reading a book that has all wrong in… — Rakim Copy Share Image
I still love when any editor today says, "it's so cool what you do", or "you inspired me". All these little things… — Garance Dore Copy Share Image
“Don't look at me like that," said Ruza. "Like what?" "Like I'm a beautiful book you're about to open and plunder with… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
“Ever since I could read, I’ve wanted to write a book. I never thought I had anything to write about. Maybe you… — Daniel Willey Copy Share Image
In an article on Bunyan lately published in the "Contemporary Review" - the only article on the subject worth reading on the… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
God has condescended to become an author, and yet people will not read his writings. There are very few that ever gave… — George Whitefield Copy Share Image
From some dilatory reading in the early 1960s, I knew enough about viruses and their association with tumors in animals to understand… — Harold E. Varmus Copy Share Image
I tend to follow a scattershot approach to reading a lot of very diverse subjects interest me, and I'm quite happy to… — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image
There are quite a number of people in the reading-room; but one is not aware of them. They are inside the books.… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Fairy tales opened up a door into my imagination - they don't conform to the reality that's around you as a child.… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
Even worse than seeing women's privacy violated on social media is reading the accompanying comments that show such a lack of empathy. — Emma Watson Copy Share Image
In Among the White Moon Faces, I wrote about my desire to be a writer as rooted in my obsessive hours of… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
In Victorian England, people were told they should discourage their wives from reading because it would lead them into all sorts of… — Marion Bailey Copy Share Image
My elementary school teachers were big on pushing kids to read. If you read a certain amount of books, they would provide… — Rey Mysterio Copy Share Image
When famous people are nice to me, it feels good, so I'm happy to hang out with them. It's better than being… — Moby Copy Share Image
I've given up reading the papers. Since the world's so obviously bent on killing itself, I decided months ago to sit back… — Sarah Waters Copy Share Image