“Even in their reading, More charged, too many women were prone to superficiality. In search of a passing knowledge of books and… — Karen Swallow Prior Copy Share Image
There is not a single line in this diary that does not call for a correction or a denial...Yes: throughout these pages… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
“Being a reader has brought me much joy, laughter, and rich experience. But reading has also wounded me. The sacrament of reading… — Steve Kendall Copy Share Image
It was her first book, an indigo cover with a silver moonflower, an art nouveau flower, I traced my finger along the… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
I think reading intelligent expressions of different points of view is a good thing, and there is a way in which being… — William Kristol Copy Share Image
Just getting totally absorbed in that and therefore when I came back around to [Buckminster Fuller] and found that much of it… — Jonathon Keats Copy Share Image
When Denzel [Washington] first called me on the phone after we'd just done a reading of the film ["Fences"]. He said, "Oh… — Viola Davis Copy Share Image
Anyway GONE. My goal in writing GONE To creep you out. To make you stay up all night reading then roll into… — Michael Grant Copy Share Image
Wilhelmine Germany was hostile to the expression of same-sex love - and, of course, Mann would have known of the fate of… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
The weird job of acting is that it is so simple. You just see the person in the situation. It is whatever… — Jason Isaacs Copy Share Image
I take a real interest in the possibilities of teaching - including the practice of bringing creative writing, and serious reading, into… — Michael Cadnum Copy Share Image
Freedom is a need of the soul, and nothing else. It is in striving toward God that the soul strives continually after… — Whittaker Chambers Copy Share Image
I think readers are always patient. Look at the 'Harry Potter' series. Some have given up on this generation of kids as… — Dave Gibbons Copy Share Image
“Tears upon tears splat on to the lined pages in my hands as I read about a nightmare come true. Quickly, I… — Cat Patrick Copy Share Image
“spending time in reading something you want to read is wayyyyy better than wasting time in reading something you should read. You… — Shohana Akter Copy Share Image
I do like to keep abreast of what the hardcore vocal members of the comics-reading audience are talking about on Internet message… — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
If a poet has any obligation toward society, it is to write well. Being in the minority, he has no other choice.… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
All spiritual growth comes from reading and reflection. By reading we learn what we did not know; by reflection we retain what… — Isidore of Seville Copy Share Image
When I was growing up I loved reading historical fiction, but too often it was about males; or, if it was about… — Kathryn Lasky Copy Share Image
I thought, "What the hell happened with James Comey ? Who did this? I mean, the only people clamoring for this are… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
In some ways, I don’t feel as if I had a choice. Looking back at my childhood, even before I could read… — Shannon Hale Copy Share Image
Twenty-nine years ago, I came to faith in Christ after a gentleman from the Gideon's International gave me a free copy of… — Craig Groeschel Copy Share Image
“Never have things of the spirit counted for so little. Never has hatred for everything great been so manifest – disdain for… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
When I first started reading about the kabbalists, I would hear about them being seen in strange places. It would turn out… — Matisyahu Copy Share Image
When the President picks someone who is his ideological soul mate, that's his right, in my reading of "advise and consent." I… — Russ Feingold Copy Share Image
Teenagers are always sneaking around in drawers where they shouldn't go and reading things they shouldn't be reading. And that's an attempt… — David Small Copy Share Image
A love of flowers would beget early rising, industry, habits of close observation, and of reading. It would incline the mind to… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
But I was always much more interested in reading fashion magazines than I was music magazines when I was a teenager. Just… — Florence Welch Copy Share Image
Awareness of having better things to do with their lives is the secret to immunizing our children against false values--whether presented on… — Polly Berrien Berends Copy Share Image
Before I was reading science fiction, I read Hemingway. Farewell to Arms was my first adult novel that said not everything ends… — Robert Reed Copy Share Image
“To be informed is to know simply that something is the case. To be enlightened is to know, in addition, what it… — Mortimer J. Adler Copy Share Image
“I myself grew up to be not only a Hero, but also a Writer. When I was an adult, I rewrote A… — Cressida Cowell Copy Share Image
It's interesting when you're doing signing sessions with other writers and you look at the queues at each table and you can… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, there was a man who gave me lessons and things. I'm very dyslexic so he used to… — Jeremy Irvine Copy Share Image
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I have confused ideas of deity, heavily influenced by mind-altering years of reading science fiction, that do not often trouble me, but… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“Reading history is good for all of us. If you know history, you know that there is no such thing as a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Ever since I was first read to, then started reading to myself, there has never been a line read that I didn't… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
We may be sure that the characteristic blindness of the twentieth century [...] lies where we have never suspected it [...] The… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The good news (for writers) is that this means that ebooks on computers are more likely to be an enticement to buy… — Cory Doctorow Copy Share Image
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