“Reading two pages apiece of seven books every night, eh? I was young. You bowed to yourself in the mirror, stepping forward… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
Mr. Pickwick took a seat and the paper, but instead of reading the latter, peeped over the top of it, and took… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Books were cities I'd never visited, filled with pillars of great thoughts and streets of phrases, mazes of abstruse sentence structures and… — Jung-Myung Lee Copy Share Image
After working with many nutritionists, reading books, and practicing trial and error on my own body, I have finally found a way… — Suzanne Somers Copy Share Image
It's been very jarring for me to stand in public and read about myself and my daughter and her father. I feel… — Jill Talbot Copy Share Image
“Sundays when they could come, my mother would bring a piece of cake and some cookies from the bakery. Of course, the… — Captain Hank Bracker, "Seawater One Copy Share Image
“El verbo leer, como el verbo amar y el verbo soñar, no soporta ‘el modo imperativo’. Yo siempre les aconsejé a mis… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
There are little things that get on my nerves, like people who have reading material in their powder room. When you go… — John Waters Copy Share Image
Context is everything. Dress me up and see. I'm a carnival barker, an auctioneer, a downtown performance artist, a speaker in tongues,… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
“Bill Gates (and his successor at Microsoft, Ray Ozzie) are famous for taking annual reading vacations. During the year they deliberately cultivate… — Steven Johnson Copy Share Image
Throughout all ranks of society, from the successful merchant, which is the highest, to the domestic serving man, which is the lowest,… — Frances Trollope Copy Share Image
While reading writers of great formulatory power — Henry James, Santayana, Proust — I find I can scarcely get through a page… — Joseph Epstein Copy Share Image
“I approached Buddhism the way I approach almost everything. I read books about it. Even though, at first, I didn't understand much… — Mary Bray Pipher Copy Share Image
She had always been a reader… but now she was obsessed. Since her discovery of the book hoard downstairs from her job,… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
Sacred space and sacred time and something joyous to do is all we need. Almost anything then becomes a continuous and increasing… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
How is it that, a full two centuries after Jane Austen finished her manuscript, we come to the world of Pride and… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“In the shop window you have promptly identified the cover with the title you were looking for. Following this visual trail, you… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
Reading Claire Cooks novel is like eating some exotic dish about which you say, Wow, this is great! Whats in it? The… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
I didn't care for most of the books I was being asked to read in school. I started reading like crazy right… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
It is one thing to be a man's wife - quite another to be the mother of his children. In fact, once… — Kelly Corrigan Copy Share Image
One of the commonest mistakes and one of the costliest is thinking that success is due to some genius, some magic -… — Maltbie Davenport Babcock Copy Share Image
“The paradox of reading is that the path toward ourselves passes through books, but that this must remain a passage. It is… — Pierre Bayard Copy Share Image
“Language and hearing are seated in the cerebral cortex, the folded gray matter that covers the first couple of millimeters of the… — Michael Finkel Copy Share Image
“Until you're about the age of twenty you read everything, and you like it simply because you are reading it. then between… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
I have found, in short, from reading my own writing, that my subject in fiction is the action of grace in territory… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
The social science on the impact of desegregation is clear. Researchers have consistently found that students in integrated schools - irrespective of… — Clint Smith Copy Share Image
One of my less pleasant chores when I was young was to read the Bible from one end to the other. Reading… — John W. Gardner Copy Share Image
As we go through this transition where a lot more people will be reading on devices, nobody is paying enough attention to… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
My interest in chemistry was started by reading Robert Kennedy Duncan's popular books while a high school student in Des Moines, Iowa,… — Wallace Carothers Copy Share Image
“When we fail to reflect on the undercurrents of the circumstances of our life, we may have permanent misgivings about the quality… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
“The critic said that once a year he read Kim; and he read Kim, it was plain, at whim: not to teach,… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
It's always hard when you're playing someone for a lot of people out there who are going to see the movie after… — Gary Oldman Copy Share Image
The brain has an attentional mode called the "mind wandering mode" that was only recently identified. This is when thoughts move seamlessly… — Daniel Levitin Copy Share Image
You can never be an artist if your work comes without effort. That is the problem with modernink from a bottle. You… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
Right now, in this moment, your soul has again created opportunity for you to be, do, and have what it takes to… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
“Books were her refuge. Having set herself to learn the Russian language, she read every Russian book she could find. But French… — Robert K. Massie Copy Share Image
Reading is the subtle and thorough sharing of the ideas and feelings by underhanded means. It is a gross invasion of Privacy… — Walter Tevis Copy Share Image
If you tell me, I will leave you alone," I said. "And if you don't tell me, I am going to grab… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
My style is really inspired by whatever I'm listening to or reading or watching; I'm always trying to embody the things that… — Zoe Kravitz Copy Share Image
I have many enemies and they all think I'm being highfalutin calling it performance, but the word "reading" has a connotation of… — T.C. Boyle Copy Share Image
