On reading the first part of Anthony Powell's four-part masterpiece, 'A Dance to the Music of Time,' I was struck by one… — Rebecca Pidgeon Copy Share Image
I am an apologist for the reading brain. It represents a miracle that springs from the brain's unique capacity to rearrange itself… — Maryanne Wolf Copy Share Image
Be a good reading role model. Show kids what you like to read, what you don't like to read, how you choose… — Jon Scieszka Copy Share Image
Are you reading your Bible?" Ah, well...I was." And then you quit." You got it." Then, you can expect to be weak… — Jan Karon Copy Share Image
I still recommend reading travel guides as an insight to a traveller's perspective on fantasy worlds. Nearly all characters end up travelling… — Trudi Canavan Copy Share Image
My producing partner and I were shown a novel we really liked. It was called 'My Abandonment' by Peter Rock, and we… — Debra Granik Copy Share Image
I spend so much time on the Internet...I feel like I'm a million pages into the worst book ever, and I'm never… — Aziz Ansari Copy Share Image
Really important books to me are the classics. I try very hard to read them well - you know, especially once I… — Karl Marlantes Copy Share Image
Whenever I'm doing any film, there's always three different things. There's the script, which is really just a blueprint. And then, you… — Thomas Ian Nicholas Copy Share Image
Reading is a pleasure of the mind, which means that it is a little like a sport: your eagerness and knowledge and… — Bennett Cerf Copy Share Image
Hemingway was really early. I probably started reading him when I was just eleven or twelve. There was just something magnetic to… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
I'm still a bit of a reading glutton, I think, because I browse, read a bit of the back copy, flip through… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
I was a huge rereader, so I've read all the Chronicles of Narnia, at minimum, 13 times each. In reading that series,… — Lisa Papademetriou Copy Share Image
Does the Bible ever say anywhere from Genesis to Revelation, 'My house shall be called a house of preaching'? Does it ever… — Jim Cymbala Copy Share Image
I try to be personal, but that's not me, either. What seems to work best, and the tweets I enjoy reading the… — John Cho Copy Share Image
I want to write something so simply about love or about pain that even as you are reading you feel it and… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
Religion is just an alternate way of reading reality - you read material reality, and then you add on an extra layer… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“Irene made a private mental resolution that if she ever became a queen, her throne would incorporate a cushion. Also a convenient… — Genevieve Cogman Copy Share Image
I would always say I can sing, but I'm musical. I'm very good at following instructions, reading the music, and singing as… — Wunmi Mosaku Copy Share Image
Updike's style is an exquisite blend of Melville and Austen: reading him is like cutting through whale blubber with embroidery scissors. — Florence King Copy Share Image
Reading and discovering fiction has taught me how to empathise, understand falling in love and all those complex relationships that people have… — Daniel Tammet Copy Share Image
Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, but to weigh and consider . . . Histories make men wise. — Francis Bacon Sr Copy Share Image
This was my only and my constant comfort. When I think of it, the picture always rises in my mind, of a… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“I also able to graciously survive the PhD from the grace, which comes from prayer, bible reading, extensive story reading, fasting, fellowship,… — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
“Life's best adventures are as close as your nearest bookshelf. Tour Europe with the Count of Monte Cristo. Dance a ball with… — Ally Carter Copy Share Image
As centuries of dictators have known, an illiterate crowd is the easiest to rule; since the craft of reading cannot be untaught… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
Growing up in the inner city, a lot of kids didn't think reading was cool. I'm trying to show them that it… — C. J. McCollum Copy Share Image
I came to realize that far more important to me than any plot or conventional sense was the sheer directionality I felt… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
“My interest in books started as a child. I had a voracious appetite for reading. It’s my mom’s fault really, because she… — Catherine Cruzan Copy Share Image
I was interested in the war part of 'Star Wars,' so I started reading about what it's like to go to war,… — Oscar Isaac Copy Share Image
The only people who can be excused for letting a bad book loose on the world are the poor devils who have… — Moliere Copy Share Image
I find reading books about music is sometimes tricky, because you can't hear it. But when you read a book about filmmaking,… — Bear McCreary Copy Share Image
Reading about myself on public platforms makes me uncomfortable. I don't like it. I read other people's interviews or articles, but when… — Akshaye Khanna Copy Share Image
I bear solemn witness to the fact that NATO heads of state and of government meet only to go through the tedious… — Pierre Trudeau Copy Share Image
Exposing students to lots of books and positive reading experiences while building a network of other readers who support each other provides… — Donalyn Miller Copy Share Image
“Don't tell me you're reading it,' she said, as if I were doing something to the book, whereas in fact the book… — Sara Levine Copy Share Image
When you are reading a book and you finish a chapter, you don’t keep re-reading the chapter you just finished. You move… — Stephen Reid Copy Share Image
I get a lot of moral guidance from reading novels, so I guess I expect my novels to offer some moral guidance,… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
When I go to a library and I see the librarian at her desk reading, I'm afraid to interrupt her, even though… — Aaron Swartz Copy Share Image
Prose is like this big block - you write big paragraphs. I feel that when I'm reading and writing, that a prose… — Bill Callahan Copy Share Image
