When I was one day old, I learned how to read. When I was two days old, I started to write. By… — Jon Scieszka Copy Share Image
The people who have the strongest opinion about everything have never left their city, their town, haven't left their 'hood, haven't left… — Estelle Copy Share Image
Type 'What is th' and faster than you can find the 'e' Google is sending choices back at you: 'What is the… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
Read with care, George Orwell's diaries, from the years 1931 to 1949, can greatly enrich our understanding of how Orwell transmuted the… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Between the ages of 24 and 27, I read Freud's complete works, everything that had been translated into English. It was very… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
Read a lot - poems, prose, stories, newspapers, anything. Read books and poems that you think you will like and some that… — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
My childhood in Arlington, Va., a middle class suburb of Washington, was uneventful. Ours was a very intellectual family, and we were… — David Gross Copy Share Image
When I start getting embroiled in heated debates and feeling stressed, I just turn everything off and disconnect from the world. I… — Vivek Wadhwa Copy Share Image
I shall always be able to come up with new fantasies. As long as there are people walking around in the street,… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
Oliver Sacks remains my hero to this day. He was one of the first medical writers I read. The other was Lewis… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
You don't have to know people personally for them to be role models. Some of my most important role models were historical… — John Wilson Copy Share Image
Job 29 is about Job reflecting on his past before the calamity hit him to say this is the type of man… — Eric Ludy Copy Share Image
I never understood the concept of a fluffy summer read. For me, summer reading means beaches, long train rides and layovers in… — Maria Semple Copy Share Image
I was eighteen when I first read Joseph Heller's stunning work 'Catch-22,' and was at that time close to being drafted for… — Thomas Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I can't wait for everyone to read 'Don't Look Back.' It's something very different for me, my first romantic suspense novel, so… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Children will not pretend to be enjoying books, and they will not read books because they have been told that these books… — Helen Dunmore Copy Share Image
Fans are always asking me where I get my ideas from. The answer is that I'm very curious, and I get inspiration… — Tess Gerritsen Copy Share Image
You know that I had heard so many times people say things like, 'You could never write 'Harry Potter' and have it… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
I never really think about what people are going to think of the movie afterwards. Or what people are going to call… — Christopher Mintz-Plasse Copy Share Image
'Pastoralia' by George Saunders. Possibly my favorite book. It's one of the weirdest books I've ever read. If Monty Python and Thomas… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
It was determined, as shown in the report of the Commission, which I can read to you, but I know you are… — John Sherman Cooper Copy Share Image
Two people have been really liberating in my mind; one is Wittgenstein and the other is Burke. I read Burke before he… — Clifford Geertz Copy Share Image
I read reviews and consider myself pretty 'plugged in' to the literary cosmos, yet one of the things I love best about… — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
Probably the one Bible passage that is read by Jews and Roman Catholics, Protestants, Islam, more than any other chapter is Psalm… — Robert H. Schuller Copy Share Image
Most of the great books on prayer are written by 'experts' - monks, missionaries, mystics, saints. I've read scores of them, and… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
I'll read pretty much anywhere and anytime, but for a while now, I've really enjoyed reading on flights, especially the longer hauls,… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
I think Trump has made it really hard for people to read, period. He's made it hard for me anyway. Part of… — Jonathan Raymond Copy Share Image
I don't want to approach reading from the viewpoint of that it's a pleasant adjunct to your life. I want to approach… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
There are as many routes to writing success as there are writers who got there. My advice, however, applies across the board:… — Therese Fowler Copy Share Image
Since I'm a story-oriented critic, sometimes it's difficult to discuss issues without defining them. At the same time, I try not to… — Stephen Hunter Copy Share Image
“What do you read?" I've never given a very satisfactory answer to that question, because it causes a kind of circuit overload… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
It's easy for me to not use my phone for the whole day. I feel like because of books, I can find… — Iga Swiatek Copy Share Image
I was read to as a small child, I read on my own as soon as I could, and I recall being… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
Kids who are poor often have families that have not really been kept informed about... how important it is to read to… — Geoffrey Canada Copy Share Image
When people read a novel 600 pages long, six months pass, and all they will remember are five pages. They don't remember… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
When I read a script or I see a character, I don't necessarily see the arc of her, that by the end… — Shailene Woodley Copy Share Image
I started thinking about what I've always been interested in: how people can't see things that are right in front of them.… — Jean Hanff Korelitz Copy Share Image
It wasn't until I started to read short stories - by people like Alice Munro, Mavis Gallant, John Updike... Eudora Welty -… — Carol Windley Copy Share Image
In 'Dark Skye,' I rewrote every one of the Pandemonia scenes over and over before I was happy with them - hundreds… — Kresley Cole Copy Share Image
There are, I'm depressed to say, many classics I have not yet read and will probably never get around to, though I… — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
