Decide, before you start, that you're going to change three things about what you do all day at work. Then, as you're… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
My craziest on-set story comes from during the Goonies, when I came up to Spielberg and said that I wanted to climb… — Josh Brolin Copy Share Image
“We need our children to get onto the reading ladder: anything that they enjoy reading will move them up, rung by rung,… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“...through reading, the modern man succeeds in obtaining an "escape from time" comparable to the "emegence from time" effected by myths. (...)… — Mircea Eliade Copy Share Image
When we wrote that scene about the Sleepy Kittens where he's reading the storybook to the kids, it's like we've had to… — Cinco Paul Copy Share Image
I do believe that one's writing life needs to be kept separate from Po-Biz. Personally, I deal with this by not attending… — Cate Marvin Copy Share Image
“In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own. I learned who I was and who I… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Two kinds of reading can be distinguished. I call them reading like a reader and reading like a writer ... when you… — Frank Smith Copy Share Image
“I'm certain indeed, I think there's no doubt of it - that reading does young people much harm. It puts things into… — Miss Grizzy Copy Share Image
IMPORTANT Book reading is a solitary and sedentary pursuit, and those who do are cautioned that a book should be used as… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
I read, I think, I play, I work. And all that thinkingand playing and reading comes into my art. I couldn't really… — Harvey Keitel Copy Share Image
What's given, in fact, always depends on the person or thing it's given to. A minor incident in the street brings the… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“If everyone could learn how to read books properly and how to use them as effective tools for daily living, the facilities… — Francis Beauchesne Thornton Copy Share Image
After reading ... accounts ... of minor accidents of light, it is little wonder that the average man would far rather watch… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
“I just got a rather nasty shock. In looking for something or other I came across the fact that one of my… — Edward Gorey Copy Share Image
Death," said Akiva. His life was leaving him fast now that he no longer held his wound. His eyes just wanted to… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
I think instead writers and publishers and readers need to go to the places where people are, and make the argument that… — John Green Copy Share Image
For we let our young men and women go out unarmed in a day when armor was never so necessary. By teaching… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
“In the first place I spent most of my time at home, reading. I tried to stifle all that was continually seething… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
The menu should be part of the entertainment, part of the dining experience. It's kind of like reading the 'Playbill' when you… — Joe Bastianich Copy Share Image
I think a comic looks better in the magazine. The colors are designed to be on paper, not illuminated on screen. I… — Daniel Clowes Copy Share Image
A dissection of music perception and creation that starts slowly and inexorably builds to a grand finish. I loved reading that listening… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
Reading and writing music is a wonderful way of getting ideas in your head down to someone else who reads and writes,… — Ronnie Montrose Copy Share Image
I can hear the library humming in the night, a choir of authors murmuring inside their books along the unlit, alphabetical shelves,… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
“I do not think that life has any joy to offer so complete, so soul-filling as that which comes upon the imaginative… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
I did not know much history when I became a bombardier in the U.S. Air Force in World War II. Only after… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
I subscribe to the theory that reading a book is similar to walking a trail, and I'm most comfortable walking when I… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
“To read is not a virtue; but to read well is an art, and an art that only the born reader can… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
It was the '50s, and the card catalog and the Dewey Decimal System were in fashion. I hung out in the 812… — Jeffrey Tambor Copy Share Image
Let people who do not know what to do with themselves in this life, but fritter away their time reading magazines and… — Walter Kaufmann Copy Share Image
“The readings required of every Confucian scholar. The Four Books are: The Analects, The Great Learning, the Doctrine of the Mean, and… — Issai Chozanshi Copy Share Image
I was looking at books and reading the indexes and finding a next book and reading that book, and then from that… — Lisa Yuskavage Copy Share Image
Reading Bicycling beyond the Divide was the best vacation I took all year-in a year I traveled to Mexico, France, and Italy.… — Jesse Lee Kercheval Copy Share Image
Rebecca Mead's My Life in Middlemarch is a wise, humane, and delightful study of what some regard as the best novel in… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
So he lent her books. After all, one of life's best pleasures is reading a book of perfect beauty; more pleasurable still… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I was always told that I was good in mathematics, and I guess my grades and standardized test scores supported that. My… — Henry Petroski Copy Share Image
There is something I keep wanting to say about reading short stories. I am doing it now, because I many never have… — Mavis Gallant Copy Share Image
I started reading Dickens when I was about 12, and I particularly liked all of the orphan books. I always liked books… — John Boyne Copy Share Image
Consciousness is evolving throughout the universe in billions of forms. So even if we didn't make it, this wouldn't matter on cosmic… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
I remember reading a book that was on songwriting at some point that I found in my dad's store, and just... I… — Larkin Grimm Copy Share Image
