I grew up reading crime fiction mysteries, true crime - a lot of true crime - and it is traditionally a male… — Megan Abbott Copy Share Image
Here's how I became myself: mess, failure, mistakes, disappointments, and extensive reading; limbo, indecision, setbacks, addiction, public embarrassment, and endless conversations with… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
He was resentful against all those in authority over him, and this, combined with a lazy indifference toward his work, exasperated every… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
The choice is yours: Enjoy a delicious meal of, say, veal fantarella with grilled vegetables. Or spend a quiet hour reading David… — Liz Curtis Higgs Copy Share Image
I prefer reading novels. Short stories are too much like daggers. And now that I'm done with my collection I'm more interested… — Ottessa Moshfegh Copy Share Image
A couple years ago, the novelist Russell Banks told me he was reading the ancient Greek historian Herodotus. I asked why. He… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
Sara Scherr and Jeff McNeely have given us a thoughtful, sensible book about a topic of great importance to the world. There… — Ismail Serageldin Copy Share Image
“When Benjamin Franklin, the famous inventor and publisher, was serving as the American ambassador to France, he often impressed French intellectual with… — Paul Kropp Copy Share Image
“The newspaper articles that Joe had read about the upcoming Senate investigation into comic books always cited "escapism" among the litany of… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
I was in a job interview and I opened a book and started reading. Then I said to the guy 'Let me… — Steven Wright Copy Share Image
“If a book is worth reading at all, it is worth reading more than once. Suspense is the lowest of excitants, designed… — William Gerhardie Copy Share Image
“Something was coming. Nola could feel it. She wanted to stop reading, but she couldn’t, because she could tell that this was… — Erica Bauermeister Copy Share Image
In English, I never did the reading when it was assigned. If a paper was due on Friday, my attitude was, read… — Charles Bock Copy Share Image
The woodchopper reads the wisdom of the ages recorded on the paper that holds his dinner, then lights his pipe with it.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I cannot stand Tolstoy, and reading him was the most boring literary duty I ever had to perform, his philosophy and his… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I had just taken to reading. I had just discovered the art of leaving my body to sit impassive in a crumpled… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
Poetry is difficult, I mean interesting poetry, not confessional babble or emotive propaganda. Reading a new poet is discovering an entire world,… — Simon Critchley Copy Share Image
I made 'Prozac Nation' necessary reading because I write necessarily. I tell my story because it is about everyone else: in 1993,… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
What made Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Edison and Albert Einstein such creative geniuses? It wasn't reading books or watching YouTube talks about… — Oliver Burkeman Copy Share Image
“Lovers' reading of each other's bodies (of that concentrate of mind and body which lovers use to go to bed together) differs… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“No, give me the past. It doesn’t change; it’s all there in black and white, and you can get to know about… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Among the many worlds which man did not receive as a gift of nature, but which he created with his own mind,… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“M. Proust was more severe than M. de Caillavet on Anatole France: "He was selfish and supercilious. He had read so much… — Céleste Albaret Copy Share Image
Traveling across the United States, it's easy to see why Americans are often thought of as stupid. At the San Diego Zoo,… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
It's a secret language, known to all different people, in different ways, that enables them to read a subliminal message without realising… — Louise Wilson Copy Share Image
“It is said that you can't write without a reader. The opposite holds true as well; you can't read without a writer.… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“Eliot was scornful of idle women readers who imagined themselves the heroines of French novels, and of self-regarding folk who saw themselves… — Rebecca Mead Copy Share Image
And I think it's because good cons are all based on the victim's need, and the successful con artist is the one,… — Alfred Molina Copy Share Image
Two opposing forces inhabit the poem: one of elevation or up-rooting, which pulls the word from the language: the other of gravity,… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
“What happened to the classics?" you may ask. "Don't you believe in reading great literature to children?" Nothing happened to the classics-but… — Jim Trelease Copy Share Image
“But every time I shunned books, as scholars sometimes do, cursed them as verbal graveyards, and tried to make contact with the… — Gunter Grass Copy Share Image
“Yes, we know you are a graduate with PhD. But when was the last time you chase after a book shop to… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
“Writers' trousers are famously unpredictable in many ways, but I haven't met another author whose trousers simply disintegrated en route to a… — A.L. Kennedy Copy Share Image
I remember reading a book called, "From Niggas To Gods, Part One" by Andre Akil; the book was so easy to read,… — Charlamagne Tha God Copy Share Image
Computer literacy is a contact with the activity of computing deep enough to make the computational equivalent of reading and writing fluent… — Alan Kay Copy Share Image
“A book a week I heave a sigh; That Slogan's peremptory cry I will not hear, I will not heed. How can… — Alexander Ireland Copy Share Image
The magic of comics is that there are three people involved in any comic: There is whoever is writing it, and whoever… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I like people, I really do. I like meeting people. But most of the time I would rather be at home reading… — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
If you enjoy reading, writing, learning, and sharing what you have learned, don't hesitate to look for a life where you can… — Howard Gardner Copy Share Image
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