Were we to choose our leaders on the basis of their reading experience and not their political programs, there would be much… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
“I didn’t actually have to write a thing because the act of reading was my writing. I thought of myself as a… — E.L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
“Douglas has more books- and comic books- than anyone I know. Still, if you wanted to borrow one, and took it down… — Meg Cabot Copy Share Image
“ Charles de Lint creates a magical world that’s not off in a distant Neverland but here and now and accessible, formed… — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
Since I'm a fan of collections and anthologies, believe that the best writing often shines in shards and galloping stretches, I never… — James Wolcott Copy Share Image
In art and life we're always reading bodies and behaviors (and skies and skylines or whatever), constructing brief and shifting coherences, and… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
“He was captured first by the illustrations, and then he began to read, to start with, the stories that dealt with magic,… — William Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
I guess we all feel like underdogs. I remember being a freshman at Brown University and not knowing what a WASP was.… — Stephen Karam Copy Share Image
The physical domain of the country had its counterpart in me. The trails I made led outward into the hills and swamps,… — John Haines Copy Share Image
In addition to exploring imaginative worlds, I believe that young people should have access to reading material that validates their life, that… — Theresa Breslin Copy Share Image
To me, when one is writing sometimes about a very specific subject with very specific people, I feel like if that story… — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
When I read a novel that I really like, I feel as if I am in direct, personal communication with the author.… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
“Richard Foster is justified in writing: I am concerned that our reading and our writing is gravitating to the lowest common denominator… — John Piper Copy Share Image
Writing is a bit like swimming. You learn writing by doing it and you learn swimming by doing it. Nobody learns how… — Robert Munsch Copy Share Image
I was always much impressed, in reading prison memoirs of revolutionists, such as Lenin and Trotsky ... by the amount of reading… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
Politicians of all kinds think there's some running in talking tough about children's reading. They think that if they announce to the… — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
“When we read, another person thinks for us: we merely repeat his mental process. It is the same as the pupil, in… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
I quite like convincing the person the broom is their favourite actress. They are talking to a broom and they think it's… — Paul McKenna Copy Share Image
“The world shown us in books, whether the books be confessed epics or professed gospels, or in codes, or in political orations,… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
...so now, Mrs. Ramsay thought, she could return to that dream land, that unreal but fascinating place, the Manning's drawing-room at Marlow… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The reality is that we will be reading Miranda rights to the corpse of Osama bin Laden. He will never appear in… — Eric Holder Copy Share Image
Growing up, my parents managed to show me the importance of reading without cramming it down my throat. A difficult task, I'm… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Personally, I hate flossing. So this is the first discipline I quit when I am stressed. But if I stop this one… — Craig Groeschel Copy Share Image
Reading is everything. Reading makes me feel like I've accomplished something, learned something, become a better person. Reading makes me smarter. Reading… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
I don't think that people are necessarily going to films simply because they were adapted from comics, though I could be wrong.… — Chris Ware Copy Share Image
“It is not I who mix the colors but your own vision,' he answered. 'I only place them next to one another… — Milorad Pavic Copy Share Image
A book consists of two layers: on top, the readable layer ... and underneath, a layer that was inaccessible. You only sense… — Marguerite Duras Copy Share Image
“spending time in reading something you want to read is wayyyyy better than wasting time in reading something you should read but… — Shohana Akter Copy Share Image
We like books that have a lot of dreck in them, matter which presents itself as not wholly relevant (or indeed, at… — Donald Barthelme Copy Share Image
Reading, writing, mathematics, astronomy, chemistry, medicine, physics, and more were all at one time deep occult secrets. Today, many of these things… — Donald Michael Kraig Copy Share Image
“People disappear when they die. Their voice, their laughter, the warmth of their breath. Their flesh. Eventually their bones. All living memory… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
I have been, earlier in my life, a lazy writer. I'd spend three hours at the gym to avoid writing, or I'd… — Emily Susan Rapp Copy Share Image
“The endless piles of genre fiction are the key to happiness. They’re the key to picking out the things that actually make… — Steven Lloyd Wilson Copy Share Image
I had been doing private readings for ten years when my guides said, "We want you to reach more people." Then I… — James Van Praagh Copy Share Image
You see? Characters in books do not read books. Oh, they snap them shut when somebody enters a room, or fling them… — Michael Swanwick Copy Share Image
Seeking - really seeking - is more than just reading a few verses from the Bible in the morning and trying to… — Lysa TerKeurst Copy Share Image
My stepdad makes me laugh constantly reading things out from the paper or getting worked up about a lady from a local… — Lou Sanders Copy Share Image
On a very personal level, I have fond memories of spending a lot of time in the Library of Congress working on… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
My folks tried to make a preacher of me and missed by a narrow margin… I would have made a good one… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
I think the act of reading imbues the reader with a sensitivity toward the outside world that people who don't read can… — John Connolly Copy Share Image
