Children need far more than basic skills in reading, writing, and math, as important as those might be. Children also need to… — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
“Don't be afraid to write and share your story with the reading world! Find your courage! It is a fact that some… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Since I was a child, I've been playing children. When I was little, I was the kid that you'd hire to do… — Noah Galvin Copy Share Image
Now, I saw, upon a time, when he was walking in the fields, that he was, as he was wont, reading in… — John Bunyan Copy Share Image
This week Bill Clinton tweeted a photo of himself reading George W. Bush's new book '41.' Then George W. Bush responded to… — Jimmy Fallon Copy Share Image
We met with the poet Frank O'Hara, who was a link between Upper and Lower Bohemia, and who worked at the Museum… — David Amram Copy Share Image
Jim Harrison is someone I always enjoy, one of the great contemporary writers. I like Tim Ferris' Big Boom Theory. I'm getting… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
The liberal arts are the arts of communication and thinking. ‘They are the arts indispensable to further learning, for they are the… — Oliver DeMille Copy Share Image
I try as best I can to really put all I can into what I'm doing. A lot of days I fail… — Gwyneth Paltrow Copy Share Image
Perhaps more significant than his experience in Europe, though, was [John] Adams's experience in his own country, and his extensive reading on… — Gordon S. Wood Copy Share Image
My daughter is seven, and some of the other second-grade parents complain that their children don't read for pleasure. When I visit… — Anne Fadiman Copy Share Image
I was not familiar with the book [before filming in The Outsiders] , though. Interestingly, The Outsiders had not reached the point… — Rob Lowe Copy Share Image
Because I didn't go to film school, I had a collection of books that were inspiring or taught me how to make… — Alex Stapleton Copy Share Image
If I have a strong dislike for something, obviously that garners an equal amount of derision, towards me from the audience. And… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
The thing about tarot - maybe this to me is the difference between it and working with a psychic - to me… — KiKi Layne Copy Share Image
This infantile sense of order tended to infect my life at large. Up at 5:30 a.m., coffee, oatmeal, perhaps sausage (homemade), and… — Jim Harrison Copy Share Image
“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book! –… — Julie Klassen Copy Share Image
[To write poems] I think it's important to do research, and research mostly is going to come from books, so all of… — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
A bookworm in bed with a new novel and a good reading lamp is as much prepared for pleasure as a pretty… — Phyllis McGinley Copy Share Image
“Another case for the dumbness of reading, however, is that books do not contain answers, but rather pose more questions. And asking… — Dan Wilbur Copy Share Image
I was reading through all these NSA programs that Snowden has revealed, and one of the ones that fascinated me was that… — Ted Rall Copy Share Image
If you have feelings about reading, you feel the rhythm of prose or of a poem like music. It awakens something in… — Maria Kodama Copy Share Image
Steve Forman is a brutally funny writer. His no-nonsense, unadorned style begs comparison to Dashiell Hammett, but Hammett's humor at its darkest… — Loren D. Estleman Copy Share Image
I came across an old story of mine that I'd written a decade ago. The main joke of the story is that… — Alexander Weinstein Copy Share Image
“Some stories consumed you, they made time stop, your worries float into the ether, and when it came to my reading habits… — Rebecca Raisin Copy Share Image
“Heartache may be bad for the soul, but it's great for bookshops. It's when we are at our lowest romantic ebb that… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
You asked if I thought my fiction had changed anything in the culture and the answer is no. Sure, there's been some… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
When looking at female body builders and reading about the industry and the culture, their bodies just break down. They end up… — Wardell Milan Copy Share Image
I think that what we need to do is say, 'Reading is going to really affect your life.' You take a black… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
“Is your wife the devil? That is the reason the bible says we should cast out devil. Is your husband the devil?… — Patience Johnson Copy Share Image
It's funny how much one learns from context. Throughout that entire visit to Kenya, with all its meetings, there was an experience… — Keller Easterling Copy Share Image
The process of reading is not a half sleep, but in the highest sense, an exercise, a gymnast's struggle: that the reader… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
With so much reading ahead of you, the temptation might be to speed up. But in fact it’s essential to slow down… — Francine Prose Copy Share Image
Say I lived until 80 and read a book a month seriously, that means I was looking at 480 books left in… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
“[A]ll who are smitten with the love of books think cheaply of the world and wealth; as Jerome says to Vigilantius: The… — Richard de Bury Copy Share Image
I tell personal stories associated with aspects of the theory, and I hope they are interesting and compelling. I don't feel you're… — Bill Nye Copy Share Image
For a while I got into the South Pacific theater of World War II. I read "American Caesar" by William Manchester, the… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
“So go ahead. Do it—open the book. See? You see me, right? And I see you. See? I am reading your face,… — Christopher Boucher Copy Share Image
Turn right up ahead," he directed. "It'll take us directly to my cottage." She did as he asked. "Does your cottage have… — Julia Quinn Copy Share Image
It's an Obama book, certainly. I was delighted, and astonished, to hear recently that he was reading it. It's a book about… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
![“Perhaps more significant than his experience in Europe, though, was [John] Adams's experience in his own country, and his extensive reading on the history of the English constitution. In 1779, he had an opportunity to try out his ideas by framing the Massachusetts constitution.” quote by Gordon S. Wood](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/e64/gordon-s-wood-13199_constitution_perhaps-more-significant-than-his-experi_2349371.png)
![“I was not familiar with the book [before filming in The Outsiders] , though. Interestingly, The Outsiders had not reached the point where it is now, where it's required reading in sixth and seventh grades. In my sixth and seventh grade, we did not, but today everyone does.” quote by Rob Lowe](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/36e/rob-lowe-855_book_i-was-not-familiar-with-the-book-before_1630862.jpg)
![“[To write poems] I think it's important to do research, and research mostly is going to come from books, so all of your reading is potentially helpful to your poetry.” quote by Nikki Giovanni](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/e1e/nikki-giovanni-1757_book_to-write-poems-i-think-it-s-important-to_2575279.png)
![“[A]ll who are smitten with the love of books think cheaply of the world and wealth; as Jerome says to Vigilantius: The same man cannot love both gold and books... The hideousness of vice is greatly reprobated in books, so that he who loves to commune with books is lead to detest all manner of…” quote by Richard de Bury](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/fa2/richard-de-bury-38022_books_a-ll-who-are-smitten-with-the-love-of-bo_1884925.png)
