My doctors told me this morning my blood pressure is down so low that I can start reading the newspapers. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
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There are very real differences between science fiction and realistic fiction, between horror and fantasy, between romance and mystery. Differences in writing… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Reading exposes is to the experiences and minds of others, makes us challenge our own provinciality, deepens and widens who we are… — Rick Gekoski Copy Share Image
To me, the point of a novel is to take you to a still place. You can multitask with a lot of… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
A love of reading shows empathy, the desire to understand how others live or act or might act - and why. — Celeste Ng Copy Share Image
Court TV. I can't stop watching it. I am absolutely obsessed! If I'm not reading a book or spending time with my… — Debra Messing Copy Share Image
“I had gone to graduate school because I loved literature, but in graduate school you were not supposed to study literature. You… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Writing is a difficult trade which must be learned slowly by reading great authors; by trying at the outset to imitate them;… — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
“It only took Alexis a day to read a five-hundred page book. Fiction stories took her to another world where she could… — Lindsay Chamberlin 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
When you wrote it didn't matter if hysteria sometimes came up in your face and voice (unless, of course, you let it… — Richard Yates Copy Share Image
Books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like a betrayal. — John Green Copy Share Image
Traveling across the United States, it's easy to see why Americans are often thought of as stupid. At the San Diego Zoo,… — David Sedaris 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
If your work is done on the phone, then surely you can set up some kind of wireless system. If your work… — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
What would we not give for some great poem to read now, which would be in harmony with the scenery,--for if men… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I sent The World Well Lost to one editor who rejected it on sight, and then wrote a letter to every other… — Theodore Sturgeon Copy Share Image
My history writing was based on what I saw in strange, exotic places rather than just reading books. — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
“You could learn to read in a few months, easy, and magic and reading are sort of the same thing.” — Sarah Wynde Copy Share Image
At one point I felt a tension between objects, their real, physical lives, and the idea of meaning: the physical, material reality… — Sergio Chejfec Copy Share Image
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Readers themselves, I think, contribute to a book. They add their own imaginations, and it is as though the writer only gave… — Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Copy Share Image
You can look for your power all you want. But you have to look deep inside you to find it. It will… — Jade Copy Share Image
Reading a novel is just a much more involving and intimate experience than the act of watching a film. I mean, you… — Jay McInerney Copy Share Image
Getting old is the most the beautiful thing. I can't wait until I'm 60, to be honest, reading the newspaper. I don't… — Mauro Remiddi Copy Share Image
I was reading an article in the 'New York Times;' it talked about being in the zone, and being in the zone… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
“I remember the hours I had spent in Father's library, drugging myself with books so I could forget my doom for an… — Rosamund Hodge Copy Share Image
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We can't deny that films have a bigger reach. After the popularity of the 'Slumdog Millionaire,' a lot of people started reading… — Ashwin Sanghi Copy Share Image
It is in the translation that the innocence lost after the first reading is restored under another guise, since the reader is… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
Stephen Hawking said he spent most of his first couple of years at Cambridge reading science fiction (and I believe that, because… — Frederik Pohl Copy Share Image
The truth is that I used to read J.J. bedtime stories. He came up to me at the FOX commissary about four… — Nicholas Meyer Copy Share Image
I remember reading 'The Grapes of Wrath' in high school in 1983. My family had immigrated to the U.S. three years before,… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
On top of whatever else I'm doing, I'm usually teaching some form of composition. The benefit of this is I get to… — Gregory Pardlo Copy Share Image
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