I write because I have an innate need to. I write because I can't do normal work. I write because I want… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
Standing as a witness in all things means all things - big things, little things, in all conversations, in jokes, in games… — Margaret D. Nadauld Copy Share Image
Browsing the first editions at my local independent bookstore, I came across 'Pastoralia,' a collection of stories by George Saunders. I'd read… — Trenton Lee Stewart Copy Share Image
I'm kind of concerned about 'Ego & Hubris' because I'm thinking that people will read it and maybe even be entertained by… — Harvey Pekar Copy Share Image
I wish I could read minds. It's a dangerous superpower, so I'd wish for it to come with a switch where I… — Kelsey Chow Copy Share Image
I did business the same way President Lee did, and from what I read in the papers, the same way President Ma… — Chen Shui-bian Copy Share Image
Many women have told me they remember where they were when they read the book, and how they felt suddenly that what… — Carol Gilligan Copy Share Image
The book grew out of the introduction I did for Brady's Gates of Janus. I knew that the writing in that introduction… — Peter Sotos Copy Share Image
Since I joined Congress, I've been shocked at how many times we were forced to vote on 1,000-plus-page bills without ample time… — Erik Paulsen Copy Share Image
I never went to school for acting; it just comes to me. I never practice. I read the script, I'll memorize it.… — Dakota Goyo Copy Share Image
We can't give the truth to someone as an object, we can only point to it, inviting inspection. It is in that… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
When I started blogging in 2004, I responded to every comment no matter how nasty the reader was. I was generally polite,… — Jessica Valenti Copy Share Image
Often I hear people say they do not have time to read. That's absolute nonsense. In the one year during which I… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
But this is an occupational hazard of being a scientist. You say this is the best information I have and then you… — Bjorn Lomborg Copy Share Image
People read stuff over your shoulder when you're in public, and when you write the kind of stuff I do, and people… — Chelsea Cain Copy Share Image
“When a poet settled down to write a poem, could he foresee the lines he would write? Did his head constantly spin… — Alysha Speer Copy Share Image
For me music is pretty personal. I generally listen to it alone, and I've never been a lover of concerts. So I… — Rick Moranis Copy Share Image
I've always been curious. I keep a list of people I'd love to have lunch with, like the Pope or Leonard Cohen.… — Diane Sawyer Copy Share Image
“To read is to struggle to name, to subject the sentences of a text to a semantic transformation. This transformation is erratic;… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
'The Hobbit' was one of the first biggish books I ever read. I remember vividly the 'riddles in the dark' passage, and… — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
I'm just a really normal, sensitive kind of go-about-my business everyday kinda guy. People see the tattoos, and they either read things… — Joel Madden Copy Share Image
I still carry the residue of the pressure I felt as a child to read and appreciate the right books. Growing up,… — Noah Baumbach Copy Share Image
I've always thought stability was suffocating and deadly. Like, when I read that the kids I went to law school with have… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
My first novel, 'You Lost Me There,' has been described as a beach read. Tough bracket, beach reads. There's not much room… — Rosecrans Baldwin Copy Share Image
We would all love to walk up to someone and shoot them in the head, there's no doubt about that. We're too… — Lee Child Copy Share Image
When I read about myself in the media, even I don't recognize me. The myth of Kevin Mitnick is much more interesting… — Kevin Mitnick Copy Share Image
Because so many voters happen to be illiterate, India invented the party symbol, so that voters who could not read the name… — Shashi Tharoor Copy Share Image
I've read a lot of different versions of myself - and all of them are true because it's all opinion, and they're… — Emma Stone Copy Share Image
Lay aside all conceit Learn to read the book of Nature for yourself. Those who have succeeded best have followed for years… — Louis Agassiz Copy Share Image
“Just a thought. What sets us above all other life on this planet is our ability to read. What we read can… — M.J. Croan Copy Share Image
Especially, I think, living in any fantasy or science fiction world means really understanding what you're seeing and reading really densely on… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
The older I get, for me it's about fear. If I read something and it scares the hell out of me, that's… — Alaina Huffman Copy Share Image
Taft was Roosevelt's handpicked successor. I didn't know how deep the friendship was between the two men until I read their almost… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
I read The Conspiracy Against the Human Race and found it incredibly powerful writing. For me as a reader, it was less… — Nic Pizzolatto Copy Share Image
“If you cannot read all your books, at any rate handle, or as it were, fondle them – peer into them, let… — Winston S. Churchill Copy Share Image
Any time that we read a script and the 'Leverage' team has to infiltrate a place, assume identities, or become con artists… — Timothy Hutton Copy Share Image
I hadn't read comics really before coming in to shooting the original 'Thor.' During that and beforehand, I read stacks and got… — Chris Hemsworth Copy Share Image
Whenever there's an opportunity to celebrate the written word and celebrate the folks that read the written word, and, I think, to… — Hill Harper Copy Share Image
My agents usually get a breakdown of all the projects that are out there. When I got 'Divergent,' they hadn't finished the… — Mekhi Phifer Copy Share Image
The transition from dictatorship to democracy is always very difficult, and if you read a history of any country that went through… — Wael Ghonim Copy Share Image
