I waited patiently - years - for the pendulum to swing the other way, for men to start reading Jane Austen, learn… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
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Reading a book should be a conversation between you and the author. Presumably he knows more about the subject than you do;… — Mortimer Adler Copy Share Image
Within months after reading the novel 'The Hunger Games,' I went from telling my mom that I could see myself as this… — Amandla Stenberg Copy Share Image
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I didn't study science beyond high school level, but I'd been reading a lot of science books by people like Richard Dawkins,… — Bernard Beckett Copy Share Image
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“Insensibly he formed the most delightful habit in the world, the habit of reading: When you are reconciled to the fact that… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
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“A fine gentleman like that, they said, had no need of books. Let him leave books, they said, to the palsied or… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The one man who should never attempt an explanation of a poem is its author. If the poem can be improved by… — Archibald MacLeish Copy Share Image
“Coleridge wrote a poem called ‘The Eolian Harp,’ in which he explored the notion of music slumbering on its instrument. It's a… — Amal El-Mohtar Copy Share Image
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When I look back at what I've written and try to explain it, it doesn't help, but it helps to be in… — Karl Ove Knausgard Copy Share Image
“Exposition is a mode of thought, a method of learning, and a means of expression. Almost all of the characteristics we associate… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
In the beginning, I want to say something about human greatness. Some time ago, I was reading texts of Kungtse. When I… — Bert Hellinger Copy Share Image
Certainly with a book, people are going to be able to read it and give themselves permission to have that delicious feeling… — Susan Hill Copy Share Image
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There is a gentle, but perfectly irresistible coercion in a habit of reading well directed, over the whole tenor of a man's… — John Herschel Copy Share Image
Writing and reading are the only ways to find your voice. It won't magically burst forth in your poems the next time… — Dorianne Laux Copy Share Image
Great lecturers seldom hesitate to use dramatic tricks to enshrine their precepts in the minds of their audiences, and at Yale perhaps… — Louis Auchincloss Copy Share Image
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Bill Clinton, who, to his credit, has established a clear and consistent foreign policy, which is as follows: Whenever the president of… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
The man whose bosom neither riches nor luxury nor grandeur can render happy may, with a book in his hand, forget all… — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Copy Share Image
Formula One gives a platform to companies like Rolex - and that's just in media space, watching television or reading newspapers, digital… — Martin Sorrell Copy Share Image
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If upon this earth we ever have a glimpse of heaven,it is when we pass a home in winter, at night,and through… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The best language is always found in books because it's considered. It's a high language. Sometimes, it is complex and difficult. It's… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Kids absolutely not reading. I think it's because they're so screen-oriented [TVs, computers, smartphones]. They do read - girls in particular read… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
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“Lin Yutang also believed that reading is an art. One chapter of the Importance of Living is devoted to "the Art of… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
But re-reading Voss also demonstrates again that although White wasn't 'a nice man', and indeed was—perhaps rightly—scathingly dismissive of my and other… — Thomas Keneally Copy Share Image
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