It is often said that reading is a gift, but to my mind that is an insufficient description, for the size of… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
Anyone who is too lazy to master the comparatively small glossary necessary to understand Chaucer deserves to be shut out from the… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
Game management is accomplished by staying constantly alert and then reading and reacting to potential problem situations before they materialize. It all… — Jim Evans Copy Share Image
... the subjective viewpoint is the only one to use regarding a library. Your true library is a collection of the books… — Carolyn Wells Copy Share Image
Every time you enter a library you might say to yourself, "The world is quiet here," as a sort of pledge proclaiming… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“In omnibus requiem quaesivi, et nusquam inveni nisi in angulo cum libro. (Everywhere I have sought peace and not found it, except… — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
Literary texts do not exist on bookshelves: they are processes of signification materialized only in the practice of reading. For literature to… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
Books have the power to be the light we are seeking at crucial moments in our lives. Reading helps us realize we… — Gioconda Belli Copy Share Image
I know one husband and wife who, whatever the official reasons given to the court for the break up of their marriage,… — Vera Brittain Copy Share Image
If you were a medieval scholar reading a book, you knew that there was a reasonable likelihood you'd never see that particular… — Joshua Foer Copy Share Image
“Balzac, Dante, Joseph Conrad, Dickens," he answered without hesitation. "Not Exactly fashionable." "That's why I read them. If you only read the… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
This is what reading is like to me. It's finding a spring in the midst of a barren land. Just when I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
From the little reading I had done I had observed that the men who were most in life, who were molding life,… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
At difficult times of my life, books have been an incredible comfort. When I was 12, I changed schools and my parents… — Elliot Perlman Copy Share Image
I do believe in reading signs if they're really obvious to you. Things happen. Someone will say something to you today in… — Eric Bana Copy Share Image
At the time, I was reading this Miles Davis book, and he was talking about coming to New York right after he… — Dave Chappelle Copy Share Image
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I try to make what I have written tighter, stronger and more precise, eliminating every element that's not doing useful work. Then… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
It's very difficult for a black man to get out of South-Central Los Angeles, and get out civilized…The only men I know… — Larry Niven Copy Share Image
What do our clergy lose by reading their sermons? They lose preaching, the preaching of the voice in many cases, the preaching… — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
Growing up, I never gave a thought to being a writer. All I ever wanted to be was a traveler and explorer.… — Alan Dean Foster Copy Share Image
Nobody reads anymore in America. Reading has become the least effective delivery system for narrative. That's sad because prose is the means… — David Simon Copy Share Image
People don't understand how hard it is to get recognized, how hard it is to get people to read your books. How… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
I loved the material when I first read it, and the experience of making the film was a great one. So when… — Keanu Reeves Copy Share Image
To spend this particular year reading essays to Dennis Robertson as one's supervisor, and, simultaneously, enjoying membership of the group round Keynes… — James Meade Copy Share Image
The simplest way to make sure that we raise literate children is to teach them to read, and to show them that… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I'm a great reader of history. I love - I have been reading history since I was a kid, and learning the… — Warren Mundine Copy Share Image
I started reading. I read everything I could get my hands on...By the time I was thirteen I had read myself out… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
When reading a book, be very certain that you never go past a word you do not fully understand. The only reason… — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
The advertiser's logotype at the bottom of the ad can be considered as part of the headline. After reading the headline, the… — John Caples Copy Share Image
I studied Latin in high school, and I was reading stuff from Cicero. And that signal took a few thousand years to… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
“With the sound of gusting wind in the branches of the language trees of Babel, the words gave way like leaves, and… — Andrei Codrescu Copy Share Image
I read usually in the morning, in my kitchen at breakfast - a short reading time, usually poetry. I read in bed… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
It is in the translation that the innocence lost after the first reading is restored under another guise, since the reader is… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
I think writing and reading are completely synergistic; not necessarily in that one has to be a good reader to be a… — Emma Walton Hamilton Copy Share Image
Contrary to all those times you've heard a writer confess at a reading that he writes fiction because he is a pathological… — Paul Harding Copy Share Image
“Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own." [ The Sick Chamber ( The… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
I like the Twilight series. I thought it was fun. I don’t like vampires personally, I don’t know any; but you know… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
The saying "the cherry on top" is only a good metaphor if the person listening or reading actually likes cherries on top… — Christopher Jones Copy Share Image
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