The object we call a book is not the real book, but its potential, like a musical score or seed. It exists… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
We live and breathe words. … It was books that made me feel that perhaps I was not completely alone. They could… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
“An entire life spent reading would have fulfilled my every desire; I already knew that at the age of seven. The texture… — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
There is no reason why the profoundest thoughts should not make easy and exciting reading. A profound thought is an exciting thing… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Make sure your characters are worth spending ten hours with. That’s how long it takes to read a book. Reading a book… — Po Bronson Copy Share Image
Authors and publishers want fair compensation and a means of protecting content through digital rights management. Vendors and technology companies want new… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
“What you read at Columbia is Plato's Republic and Homer's Iliad. What you learn at Columbia is that reading isn't education. Education… — Ted Rall Copy Share Image
“Why do I read? I just can't help myself. I read to learn and to grow, to laugh and to be motivated.… — Gary Paulsen Copy Share Image
Some read for style, and some for argument: one has little care about the sentiment, he observes only how it is expressed;… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Reading [poetry], you know, is rather like opening the door to a horde of rebels who swarm out attacking one in twenty… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
How do I start writing a book? I sit there, I come up with an opening line, and then I go little… — Nick Tosches Copy Share Image
“Reading things that are relevant to the facts of your life is of limited value. The facts are, after all, only the… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Government schools, with your tax money, now discourage the teaching of multiplication tables by rote memorization but teach reading by the 'look-and-say'… — Greg Perry Copy Share Image
“It’s kind of sad how much value I was placing in the heaps of books I owned. Obviously it was more than… — Joshua Fields Millburn Copy Share Image
How many times have you struggled with the interpretation of certain Biblical texts related to the time of Jesus' return because they… — Gary DeMar Copy Share Image
I read when I get up in the morning, when I can during the day and every single evening. Most of my… — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
If you’re reading these words, perhaps it’s because something has kicked open the door for you, and you’re ready to embrace change.… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
If I eat mindlessly while watching television, reading, or talking with someone else, I can go through an entire meal without tasting… — Dean Ornish Copy Share Image
It's a really common trap to want your life to live up to some standard that you believe in, and then you… — Will Sheff Copy Share Image
We measure the success of schools not by the kinds of human beings they promote but by whatever increases in reading scores… — Kenneth Keniston Copy Share Image
How many young girls there are who do not see any wrongdoing in following certain shameless styles like so many sheep. They… — Pope Pius XII Copy Share Image
“I look forward all day to evening, and then I put an "engaged" on the door and get into my nice red… — Jean Webster Copy Share Image
Mark Haddon's 'The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time' was published while I was trying to work out how to… — Emma Healey Copy Share Image
The first thing that jumps out in my mind is David versus Goliath. That's one of the first stories we ever learn… — Matt Cullen Copy Share Image
If he is anything other than a total gentleman, I’m going to gouge his eyes out.” “So you’re into it.” “Withholding judgment!… — John Green Copy Share Image
“So -- I confess I have been a rake at reading. I have read those things which I ought not to have… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
Of course, if one's reading Kierkegaard for personal interest that's fine - but it's sloppy scholarship just to cherry pick what suits… — George Pattison Copy Share Image
“I don’t think I’m an exceptionally bad reader. I suspect that many people, maybe even most, are like me. We read and… — Joshua Foer Copy Share Image
“I can’t go as far as Barthes in killing off the author, but I’m with him on the importance of the reader.… — Thomas C. Foster Copy Share Image
If you are interested in happy endings, you would be better off reading some other book. In this book, not only is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Even when I'm reading a script where I'm supposed to be looking at the lead role, I'll find myself gravitating toward some… — Melanie Lynskey Copy Share Image
Serious reading is hardly a social activity and every halfway serious reader is perpetually subject to a form of coitus interruptus. Family… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Something must always remain that eludes us ... For power to have an object on which it can be exercised, a space… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
Are we reading the Constitution and pondering it? Are we aware of its principles? Are we abiding by these principles and teaching… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
I didn't intentionally emplace the raw material needed for political/allegorical readings into any of the first drafts, but sooner or later I… — Roy Kesey Copy Share Image
“Do you know the feeling when you start reading a new book before the membrane of the last one has had time… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
Of course a poem is a two-way street. No poem is any good if it doesn't suggest to the reader things from… — James Laughlin Copy Share Image
I find a lot of feminist reading quite confusing and that often there's a set of rules, and people will be like,… — Lorde Copy Share Image
“A letter may be coded, and a word may be coded. A theatrical performance may be coded, and a sonnet may be… — Lemony Snicket Copy Share Image
P.S. Nothing personal, but I think this journal assignment is a waste of time. I know I have to do something to… — Kate Klise Copy Share Image
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