“The peace of God is with them whose mind and soul are in harmony, who are free from desire and wrath, who… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Some of the material out there - I don't want to say that it's all bad - but there's a lot of… — Jay Hernandez Copy Share Image
Poor reading, like poor writing, is imposing what you already know on texts. You should go into reading to discover, not to… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
I learned to dream through reading, learned to create dreams through writing, and learned to develop dreamers through teaching. I shall always… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My free time at home is usually spent emailing, listening to music, reading and talking on the phone. I wish I was… — Steve Nash Copy Share Image
“When you love something like reading—or drawing or music or nature—it surrounds you with a sense of connection to something great.” — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody's piano playing in my living room has to the… — Igor Stravinsky Copy Share Image
“She had a grocer's faith in books; they can be handed out like Green Stamps and were redeemable for a variety of… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
I think as women we've always been very used to growing up reading and identifying with male protagonists, especially in fantasy. There's… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
When reading about what may be described as the lesser celebrated heroic figures of the Harlem Renaissance, we rarely get a definitive… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
Well into the 19th century there were pronouncements from just about every branch of science and medicine that reading, writing, and thinking… — Dale Spender Copy Share Image
“What reading does, ultimately, is keep alive the dangerous and exhilarating idea that a life is not a sequence of lived moments,… — Sven Birkerts Copy Share Image
It considers not only how we relate to others, but how we relate to our ideas of others so that a completely… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
And as long as the world lasts, all who want to make progress in righteousness will come to Israel for inspiration, as… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
“Reading is one of the main things I do. Reading is everything. Reading makes me feel I’ve accomplished something, learned something, become… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
I think I'm a very good reader of poetry, but obviously, like everybody, I have a set of criteria for reading poems,… — Diane Wakoski Copy Share Image
I've always been very grateful that enough people have enjoyed reading what I've written that I've been able to pursue writing professionally. — Christopher Paolini Copy Share Image
Your inspiration is better if it comes from many different sources and your sensibilities will transform all those influences and inspiration into… — Peter Lindbergh Copy Share Image
“Welcome young poet, in here you are free to follow your star to where you should be. That door of the library… — Bernard Kops Copy Share Image
Do you remember that kid that had sex with his high school teacher? I was reading online that he died today. He… — Zach Galifianakis Copy Share Image
“Elliot finished his book in bed and pondered going to get another one. He only had so much time left, and he… — Sarah Rees Brennan Copy Share Image
The very practice of reading [the Bible] will have a purifying effect upon your mind and heart. Let nothing take the place… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
I love these members, they get up and say, 'Read the bill ... What good is reading the bill if it's a… — John Conyers Copy Share Image
“I was burning through books every day - stories about people and places I'd never heard of. They were perhaps the only… — Sarah J. Maas Copy Share Image
If you say to teachers, how can we, with the resources we've got here, develop a policy on reading books, then within… — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
“Life is an act in which we spend our time trying to decide who we are supposed to be while trying to… — Ela Crain Copy Share Image
I wonder if a single thought that has helped forward the human spirit has ever been conceived or written down in an… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
The only thing redeeming about my being born a Bengali is being brought up reading Rabindranath and Saratchandra. Other than that, the… — Sayani Gupta Copy Share Image
There are a lot of us, some published, some not, who think the literary life is the loveliest one possible, this life… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I tend not to read the size of the production into a script when I'm reading it. It's just something you respond… — Eric Bana Copy Share Image
The 10 years of theatre prepared me not only as an actor but also as a human being. It gave me the… — Manoj Bajpayee Copy Share Image
There are definitely some tricks and techniques to a good reading. Rewarding the audience that shows up to your reading is very… — Kevin Sampsell Copy Share Image
The more I like a book, the more reluctant I am to turn the page. Lovers, even book lovers, tend to cling.… — Anatole Broyard Copy Share Image
I believe that we should read only those books that bite and sting us. If a book we are reading does not… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
I can tell very early on, reading a script, within six or seven pages, whether I'm looking at real people, and whether… — Sarah Lancashire Copy Share Image
Reading has made such a profound difference to my life. I'm sure I became a writer because of the power of literature… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
What she was finding also was how one book led to another, doors kept opening wherever she turned and the days weren't… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
The clerisy are those who seek, and find, delight and enlargement of life in books. The clerisy are those for whom reading… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
The clever reader who is capable or reading between these lines what does not stand written in them but is nevertheless implied… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
A newspaper that you're not reading can be used for anything; and the same people didn't think it was immoral to wrap… — Robert Rauschenberg Copy Share Image