Good stories flow like honey. Bad stories stick in the craw. A bad story? One that cannot be absorbed on the first… — Arthur Christiansen Copy Share Image
“I learned a long time ago that the two things that most impact our lives are the people we spend our time… — Todd Gongwer Copy Share Image
Literature was the passport to enter a larger life; that is, the zone of freedom. Literature was freedom. Especially in a time… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
The storytelling gift is innate: one has it or one doesn't. But style is at least partly a learned thing: one refines… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A writer often wants to change a reader’s perception about the world, which is a political act. But we have to work… — Caryl Phillips Copy Share Image
Depression Quest's' tone is one of hope. Many players have told me they've tried to take steps in their life to get… — Zoe Quinn Copy Share Image
“Writing barely differs from Talking and Reading. It appoints your hand while they engage your mouth and eyes respectively. The trio need… — Olaotan Fawehinmi Copy Share Image
I secretly hate worship music, as it's it weak and predictable, with lyrics designed to appeal to the lowest common denominator -… — Reese Roper Copy Share Image
Why do you keep reading a book? Usually to find out what happens. Why do you give up and stop reading it?… — Gail Carson Levine Copy Share Image
“She has read not just for distraction, sustenance, to pass the time, but she has read in a state of primal innocence,… — How It All Began Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
But, you have to watch them in order. That's very important because, as it turns out, stories have to be told in… — Mitchell Hurwitz Copy Share Image
I used read about Dr. King a lot as a kid. Independently, from being assigned it or being told by my parents… — John Legend Copy Share Image
“We get heroes with impossible abilities and heroines with strengths we can only dream of. And for a little while, we are… — Darynda Jones Copy Share Image
One reason I like to highlight reading is, reading is the beginnings of the ability to be a good student. And if… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
“There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged . One… — John Rogers Copy Share Image
I subscribe to National Geographic, Scientific American, Discover, and a slew of other magazines. And it is while reading articles for pleasure… — James Rollins Copy Share Image
I am a person who dreads any kind of public exposure and any kind of public event. I spend all day, if… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
“You can tell you're reading a really good book when you forget all about everything else and know you'll die if you… — Christopher Paul Curtis Copy Share Image
For me, learning is a continuous process and an all-inclusive one - reading a book, learning a musical instrument or learning the… — Sonu Nigam Copy Share Image
Writing is a channeling of an individual experience; so is reading. That's what's so exciting about this art form - it's interactive. — T.C. Boyle Copy Share Image
Reading and understanding the Bible involves lots and lots of interpretation. Not just in light of the world and culture around us,… — John Piper Copy Share Image
Reading 'The New Yorker' - I start on the last page and go backwards, reading all the cartoons. Then I read 'Shouts… — Miriam Shor Copy Share Image
I don't finish a lot of the books I read. I get enormous pleasure from reading half f them, two-thirds of them,… — Jackie French Copy Share Image
I'm not the type who spends his free time in training camp playing with his Playstation or playing cards on trips. The… — Oliver Kahn Copy Share Image
I tend not to read or watch Science Fiction, particularly not comedy Science Fiction. The point is that if it's less good… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
The first reading of a Will, where a person dies worth anything considerable, generally affords a true test of the relations' love… — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
We should get into the habit of reading inspirational books, looking at inspirational pictures, hearing inspirational music, associating with inspirational friends. — Alfred Armand Montapert Copy Share Image
Until it is kindled by a spirit as flamingly alive as the one which gave it birth a book is dead to… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
This is the most important principle of reading on the Internet: You must determine for yourself whether or not something is true. — Stephen Downes Copy Share Image
Pleasure reading has long been an American ideal - generations of schoolchildren have headed home for the summer toting recreational reading lists.… — Alexandra Petri Copy Share Image
One of the nicest things is that I still get, very ambiguously, people saying to me, "Oh, I'm just reading your book."… — David Toop Copy Share Image
“The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of… — Elizabeth Hardwick Copy Share Image
I don't pick the roles. Your agent gets a call for you and you go and they all get together, everybody has… — Mickey Rooney Copy Share Image
Basically I'm a female human being with brown hair, enjoy precision, reading the news, eating delicious food with my delicious friends and… — Tig Notaro Copy Share Image
“There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we believe we left without having lived them,… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Creation stories had never been regarded as historically accurate; their purpose was therapeutic. But once you start reading Genesis as scientifically valid,… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
If readers understand that they do not understand what they are reading then they must possess an understanding which is superior to… — Arlo Guthrie Copy Share Image
“He considered his disposition as of the sort which must suffer heavily, uniting very strong feelings with quiet,serious, and retiring manners, and… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
When I was young, I ran to see Astaire and Rogers, Huston, Lubitsch - they were formative for me. I also read… — Lina Wertmuller Copy Share Image
