There are definitely connections between poems, but I wanted each to stand on its own. I guess it goes back to the… — Kevin Powers Copy Share Image
I'm constantly snatching my books out of the hands of precocious ten-year-olds who are simply too young to read them, despite parents… — Meg Rosoff Copy Share Image
Despite wanting to work in publishing, I was a publisher's worst nightmare: I rarely bought new books. So my goal was to… — Andrew Latimer Copy Share Image
I study harder now than I ever did in college or high school. There's just so much pressure to know what's going… — Erin Andrews Copy Share Image
“Here was the South Side--a million in captivity--stretching from this doorstep as far as the eye could see. And they didn't even… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
In Othello, Othello kills Desdemona, but no one reads that play as a model for their own behavior. In Lou Reed's case,… — Anthony DeCurtis Copy Share Image
I am a Christian resident of New York City. I simply read things the other Manhattanites read (NY Times, New Yorker magazine,… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
Many of us knock on the door but remain outside, because knocking and entering are entirely different actions. Knocking is necessary, consisting… — Vernon Howard Copy Share Image
“You should be extending your stay among writers whose genius is unquestionable, deriving constant nourishment from them if you wish to gain… — Denise Gigante Copy Share Image
Alcohol makes other people less tedious, and food less bland, and can help provide what the Greeks called entheos, or the slight… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“The therapeutic effect of reading was not a new concept to the librarians running the VBC (Victory Book Campaign). In the editorial… — Molly Guptill Manning Copy Share Image
“When I come home and look back through my Book of Books I see a personal narrative I didn’t recognize at the… — Pamela Paul Copy Share Image
Kim Newman's Anno Dracula is back in print, and we must celebrate. It was the first mash-up of literature, history and vampires,… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Educators, long disturbed by schoolchildren's lagging scores in math and reading, are realizing there is a different and more alarming deficiency: emotional… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
I was already doing a lot of splendid research reading all the books about ghosts I could get hold of, and particularly… — Shirley Jackson Copy Share Image
“The book itself is a curious artifact, not showy in its technology but complex and extremely efficient: a really neat little device,… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Any chemist reading this book can see, in some detail, how I have spent most of my mature life. They can become… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Garrett," said Stendahl, "do you know why I've done this to you? Because you burned Mr. Poe's books without really reading them.… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I was reading that lightning is a negative charge that comes from the friction that clouds carry. And since opposites attract, I… — Chris Colfer Copy Share Image
“Reading The Waste Land, then, is in part reading about reading in the early twentieth century. The crisis in epistemology brought on… — Jewel Spears Brooker Copy Share Image
“Do you ever hide books you've read over and over again because you're so sick of them?' 'Oh, definitely. When they ask… — Gina Sheridan Copy Share Image
“You go into the office and take a book or two from the shelves. You read a few lines, like your life… — Jim Thompson Copy Share Image
Of course reading and thinking are important but, my God, food is important too. How fortunate we are to be food-consuming animals.… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
Reading is like breathing in and writing is like breathing out, and storytelling is what links both: it is the soul of… — Pam Allyn Copy Share Image
“The books were legends and tales, stories from all over the Realm. These she had devoured voraciously – so voraciously, in fact,… — Chris Wooding Copy Share Image
Yes, we are [friends] and I do like to pass the day with you in serious and inconsequential chatter. I wouldn't mind… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“As has already been noted, fantastic literature developed at precisely the moment when genuine belief in the supernatural was on the wane,… — Franz Rottensteiner Copy Share Image
I just know from experience that reading a funny poem aloud, especially at the beginning of a public reading, can have a… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
The books which help you most are those which make you think the most. The hardest way of learning is by easy… — Theodore Parker Copy Share Image
Why I love the ancients so much? Aside from everything else, when I read them, the entire past between them and me… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
Dear Sir: Yours of the 24th. asking 'the best mode of obtaining a thorough knowledge of the law' is received. The mode… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I do a lot of reading on Buddhist philosophy, and a Buddhist nun named Pema Chödrön talks a lot about acceptance. It's… — Sara Bareilles Copy Share Image
Fortune has dealt with me rather too well. I have known little struggle, not much poverty, many generosities. Now and then I… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
If I had the opportunity to say a fine word to all the young people of America, it would be this: Don't… — Charles William Eliot Copy Share Image
Reading is not a straightforward linear movement, a merely cumulative affair: our initial speculations generate a frame of reference within which to… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
After all, the world is not a stage-not to me: nor a theatre: nor a show-house of any sort. And art, especially… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Long discourses, and philosophical readings, at best, amaze and confound, but do not instruct children. When I say, therefore, that they must… — John Locke Copy Share Image
I hope that when children read my stories that they evoke images for children. I four stories can help children use their… — Julie Andrews Copy Share Image
In one sense, reading is a great waste of time. In another sense, it is a great extension of time, a way… — Mary Ruefle Copy Share Image
I had a friend who was the King's surgeon in England. One day I asked him what makes a great surgeon. He… — David Ogilvy Copy Share Image