The public schools I attended were dominated by athletics and rarely inspiring intellectually, but I enjoyed a small circle of interesting friends… — Harold E. Varmus Copy Share Image
“You know what pulp is, Mr. Tallis? It's the flesh of a luscious fruit, mashed down into an incredible, half liquid richness.… — Mike Carey & Peter Gross Copy Share Image
“That’s why I read, as a stranger, My being as if it were pages. Not knowing what will come And forgetting what… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“Fiction should be a place of lollipops and escape. Real life is depressing enough--I, for one, don't want to read about make… — Nicole Christie Copy Share Image
“News invented the modern world as much as the modern world invented news. Finding out what was going on elsewhere in the… — Lawrence Kleep Copy Share Image
Reading will put you into the minds and hearts of others. It might help you understand why other people do what they… — Scott Simon Copy Share Image
I love reading people. I really enjoy watching, observing, and being able to figure out a person, the reason they wore that… — Rihanna Copy Share Image
“Each book was like an underwater cave, and when I rose again to the surface, I was pale and grumpy, resentful of… — Mary Stewart Atwell Copy Share Image
“The constant steaming in of thoughts of others must suppress and confine our own and indeed in the long run paralyze the… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
I find a lot of things to do before I do eventually get to work. I have a built-in horror of missing… — Stephen Schwartz Copy Share Image
Our society accepts the book as a given, but the act of reading -- once considered useful and important, as well as… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
The useless days will add up to something. The shitty waitressing jobs. The hours writing in your journal. The long meandering walks.… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
Pity is for this life, pity is the worm inside the meat, pity is the meat, pity is the shaking pencil, pity… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I have now and again tried to imagine the perfect environment, the ideal conditions for reading: A worn leather armchair on a… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
It is usual to speak in a playfully apologetic tone about one's adult enjoyment of what are called 'children's books.' I think… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Reading, I had learned, was as creative a process as writing, sometimes more so. When we read of the dying rays of… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
'Just looking at pictures' used to be considered cheating. No longer. The graphic novel is booming. Comics, heavily illustrated texts, books with… — Jon Scieszka Copy Share Image
There were books everywhere in my house. Books were very present. I just loved books. I never understood reading as anything but… — Lisa Lucas Copy Share Image
It was only when I began modeling at 18 that I really began enjoying fashion and reading any fashion magazine I could… — Poppy Delevingne Copy Share Image
“Keep people reading books, Mum; it helps to reinforce and strengthen the indefinable moments that anchor us in the here and now.… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
There's a great feeling of relief when finishing a good book, but also a sadness. You get to know the characters so… — D Michael Hardy Copy Share Image
Find something that thrills you, and when you finish reading it for enjoyment, read it again line by line, paragraph by paragraph… — W. P. Kinsella Copy Share Image
Reading not only enlarges and challenges the mind; it also engages and exercises the brain. Today's youth who sits mesmerized by a… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
“You must go to the school or to the books or on the field because knowledge doesn't come to you, you must… — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
I want to be with my wife. Sitting on a deckchair, sipping some tea, and reading books in a retirement home, in… — Robert Pattinson Copy Share Image
I am new to superhero comics, though growing up I read Archie comics, religiously. I've been doing a lot of catching up,… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
“It wasn’t story (good or bad) that pulled me in; it was English itself, the way it felt in my braces-caged mouth… — Kory Stamper Copy Share Image
Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply. They're either speaking or preparing… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
Intuition is like reading a word without having to spell it out. A child can't do that because it has had so… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“We liked to believe there is an alternate world, a better world, populated entirely by characters created by the yearnings of humanity--governing… — Miguel Syjuco Copy Share Image
“Part of the great wonder of reading is that it has the ability to make human beings feel more connected to one… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
The prefect evening...lying down on the couch beside the bookcase and reading himself sleepy...Jim lying opposite him at the other end of… — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
When I was 20, political music was the uncoolest thing on earth. But when Bush got elected, that was the first time… — Bjork Copy Share Image
One of the maddening ironies of writing books is that it leaves so little time for reading others'. My bedside is piled… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
If we're trying to excite young people about reading, we need to be experiencingbookjoy ourselves so that we have references to make.… — Pat Mora Copy Share Image
But reading is not idleness?it is the passive, receptive side of civilization without which the active and creative world would be meaningless.… — Stephen Spender Copy Share Image
For someone who loves literature, and all books on principle, being asked to name three titles over a half century of serious… — Thomas Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Reading is accumulating knowledge. But not only that. Reading offers us every day what religion promises us for a posthumous and improbable… — Camilo Gomes Jr Copy Share Image
Don’t be in too much of a rush to be published. There is enormous value in listening and reading and writing—and then… — Sharon Creech Copy Share Image
I feel annoyed that in His wisdom, [God] chose to reel me in with middle-brow Christian fiction. It could be worse, I… — Lauren F. Winner Copy Share Image
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