I don't write anything off without reading a script, and if it's a good one, I'll consider it, whether it's for $20… — Martin Freeman Copy Share Image
When I decided to take writing seriously, I did a lot of reading and analyzing of the books I liked, and came… — George Stephen Copy Share Image
There is only one situation I can think of in which men and women make an effort to read better than they… — Mortimer Adler Copy Share Image
I was inspired to spend an entire year - my 65th year - reading, researching, and meditating on Lao-tzu's messages, practicing them… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
I wasn't really much of a reader early on, but when I first started getting into reading at around 16 all I… — Taylor Goldsmith Copy Share Image
When most people come in from work, 95 percent of them reach for the remote control. Then they read before they go… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
I loved reading. I was one of those kids who was supposed to go to bed but had a torch under the… — Jo Swinson Copy Share Image
“Life is short, but art is long. Sophocles is dead, but Oedipus lives on…Each of us when we read a great piece… — James W. Sire Copy Share Image
The major accomplishment of analyzing illiteracy so far has been the listing of symptoms: the decrease in functional literacy; a general degradation… — Mihai Nadin Copy Share Image
“I had to go back and reread the page a few times. As I read it, I kept drifting out of the… — Patton Oswalt Copy Share Image
I love my friends and family, but I also love it when they can't find me and I can spend all day… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
There's something immediate about the experience of reading a poem - whether it's the music or some other element of it -… — Kevin Powers Copy Share Image
A reader does not suddenly comprehend what is being read or studied, in a snap, miraculously. Comprehension needs to be worked forged,… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
It's a lazy Saturday afternoon, there's a couple lying naked in bed reading Encyclopediea Brittannica to each other, and arguing about whether… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“Look- here's a table covered with red cloth. On it is a cage the size of a small fish aquarium. In the… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I loved reading Grimm's fairy tales and Hans Christian Andersen, and I loved to dream about other worlds and other lives. Maybe… — Lauren Bacall Copy Share Image
If you're an actor and you don't get cast in stuff a lot, then put together a show or hold play-reading nights… — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
I almost obsessively began reading about what was happening with the so-called Islamic State. But I couldn't find an angle on the… — Matthew Heineman Copy Share Image
This nice and subtle happiness of reading, this joy not chilled by age, this polite and unpunished vice, this selfish, serene life-long… — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share Image
I think that my love of cooking grew out of my love of reading about cooking. When I was a kid, we… — Samantha Bee Copy Share Image
The first time someone called me a role model, I remember thinking, 'What does that mean?' But I feel aware of it… — Miranda Cosgrove Copy Share Image
We live in a culture that venerates scores. We affix numbers to how much fat is in our mochachinos, how quickly our… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
All the people who fought for freedom were my heroes. I mean, that was the sort of story I liked reading... freedom… — Indira Gandhi Copy Share Image
“By reading the writings of the most interesting minds in history, we meditate with our own minds and theirs as well. This… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Time cleaning was less time reading, so I usually just did the minimal amount, and left it for another day, a day… — Rebecca Raisin Copy Share Image
I remember when I was in my late teens just getting rid of lots of records, realizing I only ever listened to… — Jonny Greenwood Copy Share Image
We have to put aside the customary historical reading of works of art in order to invite art to respond to certain… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“Montesquieu wrote: "I have never known any distress that an hour of reading did not relieve." If one substituted the word music… — Zhu Xiao-Mei Copy Share Image
I'm a massive Roald Dahl fan. I grew up reading his work and see a recurring theme - I have continued to… — Alex Lawther Copy Share Image
Writing enters into us when it gives us information about ourselves we are in need of *at the time that we are… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
One very early influence was reading about John Cage's experience in an anechoic room where the only sound you are left with… — Johann Johannsson Copy Share Image
“For some, perhaps for many, books are spare time. For me, the rest of life is spare time: I wake and sleep… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Read proudly--put the duty of being read invariably on the author. If he is not read, whose fault is it? I am… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“You may receive a pie, eat it and forget. You may receive champagne, drink it and forget. But when you receive a… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
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In the moment of reading, the writer comes up to the surface and the reader comes up to the surface and they… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
The only advice ... that one person can give another about reading is to take no advice, to follow your own instincts,… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
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Adapting a Judy Blume book is something I really wanted to do, and you couldn't grow up in the '90s without knowing… — Willa Holland Copy Share Image
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