The State insists that, by thus quarantining the general reading public against books not too rugged for grown men and women in… — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Almost every time I speak to teenagers, particularly young female students who want to talk to me about feminism, I find myself… — Laurie Penny Copy Share Image
I'd rather that people could be both entertained and given rest while reading my book than for someone to have to put… — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
Look at Mann's reading habits, his explicit comments on Nietzsche, and his copy of Birth of Tragedy, and it starts to seem… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
I don't think America needs 28,000 men on Okinawa. I don't think we need an army in Germany. What's it for, to… — Kevin Gutzman Copy Share Image
Books only spoil the originality of genius. Very well for those who can't think for themselves - But when one has made… — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share Image
“I have always been a reader; I have read at every stage of my life, and there has never been a time… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
“What you read at Columbia is Plato's Republic and Homer's Iliad. What you learn at Columbia is that reading isn't education. Education… — Ted Rall Copy Share Image
“I'm an inclusionist. I've always divided up (very, very broadly, I admit) the artistic instincts into the inclusionist and the exclusionist. The… — Clive Barker 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
After I left the convent, for 15 years I was worn out with religion, I wanted nothing whatever to do with it.… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
That's what everybody tells me. "I would've had a great comic-book collection, but my mother made me throw them away." But when… — Stan Lee Copy Share Image
I wish thee as much pleasure in the reading, as I had in the writing. — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
Translated literature can be fascinating. There's something so intriguing about reading the text second hand - a piece of prose that has… — Katie Kitamura Copy Share Image
What makes a sentence, a phrase, a moment, or a scene delightful? Something about recognizing the truth in it, hearing the music… — Alice McDermott Copy Share Image
“There are many kinds of slavery and many kinds of freedom. But reading is still the path.” — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
If you can get kids excited about reading, maybe that can open up a whole other world for them. — Sean Doolittle Copy Share Image
Few are sufficiently sensible of the importance of that economy in reading which selects, almost exclusively, the very first order of books.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The reading I did do that stuck with me was usually somewhat breathless and brittle - I suppose camp. But my definition… — Rick Owens Copy Share Image
I couldn't think of anything more pointless than reading a piece of fiction written by a robot. — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
