“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
“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
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
“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
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
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
“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
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
When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I is reading it hundreds of times,' the BFG said. 'And I is still reading it and teaching new words to myself… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
I’m the kind of person who likes to be by himself. To put a finer point on it, I’m the type of… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
On a more technical level, a story takes a lot of words. And to generate words and phrases and images and so… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
WHEN reading my present treatise, bear in mind that by "faith" we do not understand merely that which is uttered with the… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
If I were reading a book and happened to strike a wonderful passage I would close the book then and there and… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“What then? Are we only to buy the books that we read? The question has merely to be thus bluntly put, and… — Arnold Bennett Copy Share Image
Communication with God is vital to a vibrant relationship with him. We will never really know God in an intimate, personal relationship… — Anne Graham Lotz Copy Share Image
“An editor doesn't just read, he reads well , and reading well is a creative, powerful act. The ancients knew this and… — Susan Bell Copy Share Image
I think training your instinct comes from writing and reading. There's no big secret. And reading slush helps, as well; I'd recommend… — Mary J. Miller Copy Share Image
A great read; an exciting, frightening account of organized crime today. But like all important works of nonfiction, it goes further… This… — Le Ly Hayslip Copy Share Image
My body has taught me many things, all of them filled with soul: how to dance and make love, mourn and make… — Kat Duff Copy Share Image
Reading fiction is important. It is a vital means of imagining a life other than our own, which in turn makes us… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
Marie Antoinette: The Portrait of an Average Woman was one of those books I read in my mid-twenties that was life-changing. I… — Elizabeth Peyton Copy Share Image
It cannot but be injurious to the human mind never to be called into effort: the habit of receiving pleasure without any… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
I remember the beginnings of the Kurzweil reading machine. I was one of the first to meet Ray Kurzweil and purchase the… — Stevie Wonder Copy Share Image
The spark for 'In Praise of Slowness' came when I began reading to my children. Every parent knows that kids like their… — Carl Honore Copy Share Image
About twenty pages into Luke B. Goebel's Fourteen Stories, None of Them Are Yours, I realized I was reading with one hand… — Blake Butler Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as doing the nuts and bolts of reading in Kindergarten through 5th grade without coherently developing knowledge… — David Coleman Copy Share Image
If the book we are reading does not wake us, as with a fist hammering on our skull, why then do we… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
I used to write on pads with a pen but had trouble reading the words the next day. Years later, Bob Dylan… — Leon Russell Copy Share Image
“Anything I run across can light up the circuitry of my brain, and set me on an adventure. To research strains of… — Ander Monson Copy Share Image
My general impression about people like Steve Gould and Carl Sagan and so on is that when they disappear as individuals and… — Richard Lewontin Copy Share Image
“What I have learned from about twenty years of serious reading is this: It is sentences that change my life, not books.… — John Piper Copy Share Image
This comes from Mike Gonzalez at the Daily Signal: [ Howard] Zinn's history "set the stage for the grievance mongering that passes… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
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