The diligent reading of Sacred Scripture accompanied by prayer brings about that intimate dialogue in which the person reading hears God who… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
“Children are capable, of course, of literary belief , when the story-maker's art is good enough to produce it. That state of… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
When I put my faith in Jesus Christ as my savior, and I asked him to forgive and to come into my… — Anne Graham Lotz Copy Share Image
“Reading Chekhov, I felt not happy, exactly, but as close to happiness as I knew I was likely to come. And it… — Francine Prose Copy Share Image
“Have you really read all those books in your room?" She laughed, "Oh God no. I've maybe read a third of 'em.… — John Green Copy Share Image
I always considered myself a loner. I mean, not like a poor-me, Byron-esque, I-should-have-brought-a-swimming-buddy loner. I mean the sort of person who… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
For about a year, when we lived at Middlewick, I couldn't really go anywhere. But the children came and went as normal… — Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall Copy Share Image
“Books took, in her young life, the place of companions and childish games. She read a great deal without guidance or discrimination,… — Lyubov Dostoyevskaya Copy Share Image
One of the coolest things about touring around, actually, is getting to meet people, and getting to pick up on things that… — Steven Hall Copy Share Image
“(As to how the Gatekeeper came to life) Once a bookworm, always a bookworm. But inspiration starts once that lowly worm crawls… — D.S. Quinio Copy Share Image
Some people spend their entire lives reading but never get beyond reading the words on the page, they don't understand that the… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
Man must learn to rely upon himself. Reading bibles will not protect him from the blasts of winter, but houses, fires. and… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
In 1970 the top three skills required by the Fortune 500 were the three Rs: reading, writing, and arithmetic. In 1999 the… — Linda Darling-Hammond Copy Share Image
“...but she wrote out some extra words on a piece of paper so Rain could practice reading. "Is this a magic spell?"… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
Your job, your invitation from the Universe, is to give people back to themselves. You can do this every day, in a… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
“How ... how fragile situations are. But not tenuous. Delicate, but not flimsy, not indulgent. Delicate, that's why they keep breaking, they… — William Gaddis Copy Share Image
I remember my fourth grade teacher reading 'Charlotte's Web' and 'Stuart Little' to us - both, of course, by E. B. White.… — Louis Sachar Copy Share Image
“Thanks for being the kind of person who likes to pick up a book. That's a genuinely great thing. I met a… — Max Barry Copy Share Image
Suppose there were an experience machine that would give you any experience you desired. Superduper neuropsychologists could stimulate your brain so that… — Robert Nozick Copy Share Image
“The reader! You, dogged, uninsultable, print-oriented bastard, it's you I'm addressing, who else, from inside this monstrous fiction. You've read me this… — John Barth Copy Share Image
“I want the kids to enjoy reading not only today but for the rest of their lives. I try to do all… — Ron Clark Copy Share Image
I read individual stories a lot in magazines and other places, too, but I really think there's something to be said for… — Brian Evenson Copy Share Image
I saw more clearly than ever, that the first great and primary business to which I ought to attend every day was,… — George Muller Copy Share Image
We live in such a celebrity-driven culture, but all those people have to go buy toilet paper, and all those people have… — Abbi Jacobson Copy Share Image
Drs. Margolis and Fisher have done a great service to education, computer science, and the culture at large. Unlocking the Clubhouse should… — Anita Borg Copy Share Image
With the advancement in e-reading technology, I was curious if it were possible for readers to be able to hear the actual… — Colleen Hoover Copy Share Image
I’m just thinking that would be pleasant. To be reading, say, out of a book, and you to come up and touch… — Jamie O'Neill Copy Share Image
One year, I was a patron of a new opera. It was, to put it kindly, unpleasant to the ear. The friends… — Karen DeCrow Copy Share Image
I've been reading and researching various aspects of history - Dickens' London, Nelson's sea battles, Magellan's nautical explorations, the weapons and battles… — Gary Paulsen Copy Share Image
In a long story like 'Weathercraft,' it becomes kind of convoluted. It can become perhaps difficult to remember what led up to… — Jim Woodring Copy Share Image
“Reading is an act of contemplation, perhaps the only act in which we allow ourselves to merge with the consciousness of another… — David L. Ulin Copy Share Image
My only passions were books and music. As you might guess, I led a lonely life… Not that I knew what I… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Teaching literature is teaching how to read. How to notice things in a text that a speed-reading culture is trained to disregard,… — Barbara Johnson Copy Share Image
I was very, very young when I first started acting. My first movie role I was in, I was eight years old… — Cameron Monaghan Copy Share Image
For some of us, books are as important as almost anything else on earth. What a miracle it is that out of… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Only when all children are in a book-loving environment will they achieve literacy, yes, but a lot more: a confidence in handling… — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
No time spent with a book is ever entirely wasted, even if the experience is not a happy one: there’s always something… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
Every so often I take out a volume and read a page or two. After all, reading is looking after in a… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
In order to dream so far, is it enough to read? Isn't it necessary to write? Write as in our schoolboy past,… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
Why should I tell you?" he asked, with no small amount of petulance. "If you tell me, I will leave you alone,"… — Rachel Cohn Copy Share Image
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