“You read a book for the story, for each of its words," Gordy said, "and you draw your cartoons for the story,… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
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For the grand and inescapable tradition of western literary classics confronts us with fundamental choices over our understanding of words, reading and… — Os Guinness Copy Share Image
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About 15 years ago I went though a period of a year or so when I just couldn't find anything good. My… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
It's one of my biggest memories of my father reading. I had pneumonia, remember, but I was a little better now, and… — William Goldman Copy Share Image
Young people often aren't in a position to write checks to charities. But there are two things they can do that are… — Nicholas Kristof Copy Share Image
The church itself has got to go outside of its own borders and carry the gospel to ev'ry creature, or it is… — Edward Everett Hale Copy Share Image
Reading 'Youth in Revolt' might have ruined my career because suddenly I wanted to abandon all the emotional truth of something and… — Rob Thomas Copy Share Image
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“I hadn't had a chance to read an entire novel in weeks. Whatever the others might say about politics, civil war, and… — Alyxandra Harvey Copy Share Image
When I went to high school - that's about as far as I got - reading my U.S. history textbook, well, I… — Utah Phillips Copy Share Image
“Before I start a film or a play, I try to build a world in my mind. An imaginative world which the… — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share Image
It took a lot to understand that the interest in both writing a story and reading it is not in the objective… — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
I suspected learning a language would be both useful and enjoyable (I love memorising lists of things), and would get rid of… — Deborah Smith Copy Share Image
...And another item from the growing file of people who voluntarily wear dunce caps... You'll be talking cordially to someone and make… — Tim Dorsey Copy Share Image
'Recreative' is a word that I invented because in urban culture, with colloquialism, we invent so many slangs. I don't like the… — Kevin Gates Copy Share Image
Why do you think the Bible has survived thousands of years of tumultuous history Why is it still here Is it because… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
“My favorite thing in the world to do is read a book. I read Heidi, which I love, then I read another… — Mindy Warshaw Skolsky Copy Share Image
Prepare yourselves mentally. A mission requires a great deal of mental preparation. You must memorize missionary discussions, memorize scriptures, and oftentimes learn… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
Land surveyors can spend as much time reading legislation, bylaws, and engineering documents as we spend in front of an instrument in… — Mark Mason Copy Share Image
“That's why I read so much. A book isn't going to hurt me. A book isn't going to form some opinion about… — Paulette Mahurin Copy Share Image
When I was young, I went to college, had a teacher who was, had been a student of Trilling's at Columbia, this… — Louis Menand Copy Share Image
I think people are trying out ideas with the new technology and it's too early to say where it's going exactly. But… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
True freedom and the end of suffering is living in such a way as if you had completely chosen whatever you feel… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
If you haven't learned to ride a bike by the time your peer group has, then suddenly it's an embarrassment and you'll… — Chris Hadfield Copy Share Image
Why are we reading a Shakespeare play or 'Huckleberry Finn?' Well, because these works are great, but they also tell us something… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
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I don’t even know what I’m writing, I have no idea, I don’t know anything, and I’m not reading over it, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You can't build a vocabulary without reading. You can't meet friends if you ... stay at home by yourself all the time.… — Rudolf Flesch Copy Share Image
My parents read to me a lot as a kid, and I started writing very early, probably spurred on by Aesop's fables.… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
I'm finding that people reading the book [The Heroin Diaries: A Year In The Life Of A Shattered Rock Star] are saying,… — Nikki Sixx Copy Share Image
I have grown up reading Marvel Comics and Marvel movies with their intricately woven storylines. It is fascinating to see how Marvel… — Rana Daggubati Copy Share Image
“If she were running through the rye, if she were headed towards the abyss, I would grab hold with every ounce of… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
I had lots of time to read [being a lawyer] what I hadn't read in my school and college days. Being a… — Khushwant Singh Copy Share Image
“Do you know what it is?' [Toby] said thoughtfully. 'It's that they haven't had anything really awful happen to them. No wonder… — Michelle Cooper Copy Share Image
I always give my students exercises where they really have to open a vein and bleed all over the paper and that's… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
A literary creation can appeal to us in all sorts of ways-by its theme, subject, situations, characters. But above all it appeals… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
“Reading is first and foremost non-reading. Even in the case of the most passionate lifelong readers, the act of picking up and… — Pierre Bayard Copy Share Image
“Reading is never purely an act of isolation. When we read, we enter into a world of commonality, whether of language, story,… — Andrew Piper Copy Share Image
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