“Language and hearing are seated in the cerebral cortex, the folded gray matter that covers the first couple of millimeters of the… — Michael Finkel Copy Share Image
I have found, in short, from reading my own writing, that my subject in fiction is the action of grace in territory… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“Until you're about the age of twenty you read everything, and you like it simply because you are reading it. then between… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
As we go through this transition where a lot more people will be reading on devices, nobody is paying enough attention to… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
The social science on the impact of desegregation is clear. Researchers have consistently found that students in integrated schools - irrespective of… — Clint Smith Copy Share Image
One of my less pleasant chores when I was young was to read the Bible from one end to the other. Reading… — John W. Gardner Copy Share Image
“When we fail to reflect on the undercurrents of the circumstances of our life, we may have permanent misgivings about the quality… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
My interest in chemistry was started by reading Robert Kennedy Duncan's popular books while a high school student in Des Moines, Iowa,… — Wallace Carothers Copy Share Image
It's always hard when you're playing someone for a lot of people out there who are going to see the movie after… — Gary Oldman Copy Share Image
The brain has an attentional mode called the "mind wandering mode" that was only recently identified. This is when thoughts move seamlessly… — Daniel Levitin Copy Share Image
You can never be an artist if your work comes without effort. That is the problem with modernink from a bottle. You… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
“The critic said that once a year he read Kim; and he read Kim, it was plain, at whim: not to teach,… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
Right now, in this moment, your soul has again created opportunity for you to be, do, and have what it takes to… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
“Books were her refuge. Having set herself to learn the Russian language, she read every Russian book she could find. But French… — Robert K. Massie Copy Share Image
Reading is the subtle and thorough sharing of the ideas and feelings by underhanded means. It is a gross invasion of Privacy… — Walter Tevis Copy Share Image
If you tell me, I will leave you alone," I said. "And if you don't tell me, I am going to grab… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
My style is really inspired by whatever I'm listening to or reading or watching; I'm always trying to embody the things that… — Zoe Kravitz Copy Share Image
I have many enemies and they all think I'm being highfalutin calling it performance, but the word "reading" has a connotation of… — T.C. Boyle Copy Share Image
Thou mayest as well expect to grow stronger by always eating as wiser by always reading. Too much overcharges Nature, and turns… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
It is possible, reading standard histories, to forget half the population of the country. The explorers were men, the landholders and merchants… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“I've decided that it's possible to LOVE someone for entirely SELFLESS reasons, for all of their flaw and weaknesses, and still NOT… — Cammie McGovern 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
“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
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 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
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
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
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
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
“You have to read widely, constantly refining (and redefining) your own work as you do so. It’s hard for me to believe… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Whenever anyone declares having read a book of mine I am disappointed by the error. That’s because my books are not to… — Antonio Lobo Antunes Copy Share Image
“A few months ago, I was sitting morosely at my desk, wondering why I had ever agreed to review Barbara Bush: A… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image