When you think of Grimm's fairy tales, they are deeply, deeply psychological. They're so powerful, so bloody, and really, really disturbing. Think… — Denis O'Hare Copy Share Image
I love readings and my readers, but the din of voices of the audience gives me stage fright, and the din of… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
If you're 50 years old or younger, give every book about 50 pages before you decide to commit yourself to reading it,… — Nancy Pearl Copy Share Image
One of the things that was really influential early on was Ezra Pound's Cantos, one poem he worked on for 50 years.… — Richard Misrach Copy Share Image
Well, I'm half Australian, half English and I live in London. That is the only reason I came upon this story. My… — Tom Hooper Copy Share Image
I realized that my book readings were boring me. I was going to go up there and read a passage and sleepwalk… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
You know that feeling, she said, when you are reading a book, and you know that it is going to be a… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
These hurts I have are my fault but I'm sure gonna learn from it and hopefully anyone reading this will too. The… — Mike Watt Copy Share Image
Perhaps his gloom was due to his profession, that he lived among fallen empires, and in reading these languages that had not… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Creativity doesn’t come from glancing quickly at your Twitter feed while in line at Starbucks. It comes from deep thought. It comes… — Joshua Rogers Copy Share Image
Reading with an eye towards metaphor allows us to become the person we’re reading about, while reading about them. That’s why there… — John Green Copy Share Image
Fiction is more dangerous than nonfiction because it can seduce better. I think we all know this, know that deeper truths can… — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
The comic-book industry today is not what it was back then, unfortunately. Kids are no longer interested in reading comic books; they've… — Al Feldstein Copy Share Image
“Reading may be the last secretive behavior that is neither pathological or prosecutable. It is certainly the last refuge from the real-time… — Richard Powers Copy Share Image
“People talk about books being an escape, but here on the tube, this one feels more like a lifeline...The motion of the… — Jennifer E. Smith Copy Share Image
We know that children need help to read, and the best time to start them reading is very young. We believe that… — Jane Bown Copy Share Image
I can't be reading novels when I'm writing a novel, because somebody's voice creeps in. The hardest thing to do is keep… — T.C. Boyle Copy Share Image
While you certainly will recognize 'Outlander' if you've been reading the books, there's also this wonderful sense of novelty and discovery about… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
I have always believed in the magic of childhood and think that if you get your life right that magic should never… — Colin Thompson Copy Share Image
“THE VOICE YOU HEAR WHEN YOU READ SILENTLY is not silent, it is a speaking- out-loud voice in your head; it is… — Thomas Lux Copy Share Image
The development and deployment of drones and Cruise missiles involves the continuing development of the vision machine. Research on Cruise missiles is… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
“If I am alive this is my book, and my father lives now in the afterlife that is a book, a thing… — Niall Williams Copy Share Image
“Lots of women read fiction. Most men don't. Women read fiction written by women and by men. Most men don't. If a… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
My dad (Scott Swift) believed in me, even when I didn't.He always knew I could do this. I’m sure that everyone in… — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
I would say that the single most important conclusion I reached, after traveling through Japan, as well as countless hours reading, studying,… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
The fact that fairy tales remain a literary underdog-undervalued and undermined-even as they shape so many popular stories, redoubles my certainty that… — Kate Bernheimer Copy Share Image
Because I spend so much time traveling, I tend to do most of my reading on the same iPad on which I… — Scott Turow Copy Share Image
Pace yourself in your reading. A little bit every day really adds up. If you read during sporadic reading jags, the fits… — Douglas Wilson Copy Share Image
Few are sufficiently sensible of the importance of that economy in reading which selects, almost exclusively, the very first order of books.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We always talk about how everyone is unifocal. You can't possibly be interested in jazz and Beethoven. Of course you can. You… — Harold Evans Copy Share Image
“Ludmilla, now you are being read. Your body is being subjected to a systematic reading, through channels of tactile information, visual, olfactory,… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
Master those books you have. Read them thoroughly. Bathe in them until they saturate you. Read and reread them…digest them. Let them… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you have a character that seems to be all perfect, it's hard to relate to him because when you read a… — Stan Lee Copy Share Image
Learning is not automatic. You do not automatically know how to read because you turn five. Most of us are sensitive to… — Marion D. Hanks Copy Share Image
“Fiction can show you a different world. It can take you somewhere you've never been. Once you've visited other worlds, like those… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Long before the idea of a writer's conference was a glimmer in anyone's eye, writers learned by reading the work of their… — Francine Prose Copy Share Image
Solitary reading will enable a man to stuff himself with information, but without conversation his mind will become like a pond without… — William Matthews Copy Share Image
“Fiction does something unique in that it takes us out of our heads and puts us into other people's heads. And I… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
It's Earth Day today. Let me tell you something about polar bears. They're endangered but you have to be careful because a… — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
To live fully your well-read life -at any age- it is essential to take your selection of books seriously. When you drift… — Pat Williams Copy Share Image
