“Finally, bookshelves can be a terrifying place for debut writers, especially those who are marginalized. Writers who are queer, trans, BIPOC, disabled,… — Frances White Copy Share Image
Designers provide ways into—and out of—the flood of words by breaking up text into pieces and offering shortcuts and alternate routes through… — Ellen Lupton Copy Share Image
My dad noticed some kind of talent on piano when he asked me to play a couple random songs on piano when… — Christina Grimmie Copy Share Image
You nourish your minds by reading books. There is no good in doing that unless you hold it also as a sacrifice… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“In times of struggle, there are as many reasons not to read as there are to breathe. Don’t you have bigger things… — Erin Blakemore Copy Share Image
“The period of general neglect of Eliot's poetry was one in which a revolution was occurring in the theory of interpretation. Existentialist,… — Jewel Spears Brooker Copy Share Image
“Books were seen as a waste of time. What was the point, unless you were reading for information? To lose oneself in… — David Bergen Copy Share Image
Turn off your radio. Put away your daily paper. Read one review of events a week and spend some time reading good… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
“Reading 2 Peter is a little like listening to a mobile phone conversation. We are only hearing half the dialogue. We can understand… — Robert K McIver Copy Share Image
Raven-haired writer Emer Martin is giving a lunchtime reading from her fabulous new novel, Baby Zero. Emer Martin is a brilliant writer,… — Olaf Tyaransen Copy Share Image
I can blend words easily with my pen, and show concepts from deep within. Yet not everyone gets the message I send.… — Stanley Victor Paskavich Copy Share Image
Northern Sweden holds a special kind of magic. It's cold, lonely, and the people are tough and silent, or so the stereotype… — Camilla Lackberg Copy Share Image
Gardening is really an extended form of reading, of history and philosophy. The garden itself has become like writing a book. I… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
Some people never learn how to talk to kids. They turn up the volume and enunciate with extra care, as if talking… — F. Paul Wilson Copy Share Image
When you're reading a novel, I think the reason you care about how any given plot turns out is that you take… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
Hence, instead of Man Thinking, we have the bookworm. Hence, the book-learned class, who value books, as such; not as related to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The truth is . . . that the great artists of the world are never puritans, and seldom ever ordinarily respectable. No… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
With the audience I write for, I want to make sure that the reader is eagerly turning every page. I want each… — Russell Freedman Copy Share Image
Now that I'm in the modeling industry, I'm taking reading magazines seriously. I read the Vogue magazines. I make it my homework.… — Malaika Firth Copy Share Image
The effects of MFA programs, and the rise of creative writing instruction more generally, are far more diffuse than people think. Even… — Chad Harbach Copy Share Image
“daughter of the past who walked in all wide-eyed and exhaling like she’d finally found what she was looking for. It was… — Patti Callahan Henry Copy Share Image
I find it very difficult to talk about unwritten works. It's never useful to start putting words casually around the flimsiest of… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
“Why do you think people stopped reading? We read to connect with other minds. But why read when you're busy writing, describing… — Alena Graedon Copy Share Image
There is no shortage of good days. It is good lives that are hard to come by. A life of good days… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
Reading good literature is an experience of pleasure...but it is also an experience of learning what and how we are, in our… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
And maybe it would have bitten you in half," said Will. "What you are describing, the transformation into a demon, is the… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Reading the very best writers—let us say Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, Tolstoy—is not going to make us better citizens. Art is perfectly useless,… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
Look at the great athletes, musician, artists, and writers. They all tap into a source. Some call that source God or soul… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
Well, after all, this is the age of the disposable tissue. Blow your nose on a person, wad them, flush them away,… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Reading is at the threshold of the spiritual life; it can introduce us to it. It does not constitute it ... There… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Terrifying. . . . A Dark Matter is populated with vivid, sympathetic characters, and driven by terrors both human and supernatural. It's… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
When I started out, I didn't have any writing routine, I had a job. Writing was a hobby I indulged in over… — Neal Asher Copy Share Image
I can only give you words. Nothing fancy. But this will have to do. It doesn't matter if you're reading it a… — Daniel H. Wilson Copy Share Image
You need to have a reader's sympathy in order to accomplish anything. It's like at a reading, I find it's better to… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“There is no more important homework than reading. Research shows that the highest achieving students are those who devote leisure time to… — Nancie Atwell Copy Share Image
Anything's possible in Human Nature," Chacko said in his Reading Aloud voice. Talking to the darkness now, suddenly insensitive to his little… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
...she wasn't reading Deathly Hallows at all. Her book wasn't orange but rose and water and sand, and featured a kid on… — Melissa Anelli Copy Share Image
The symbiotic relationship between reading and writing is a cornerstone of our individual intellectual journey and our educational system. We write as… — Marita Golden Copy Share Image
I think being raised within a Mexican Catholic family made magical realism a very natural part of who I am as a… — Daniel Olivas Copy Share Image
“As long as reading is for us the instigator whose magic keys have opened the door to those dwelling-places deep within us… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
