“Reading great books gives insight to the mind of great souls.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
Reading my way all the way through Sherlock Holmes gave me a lifelong love for crime and detective fiction. — Stanley Bing Copy Share Image
“People with Books. What, in 2007, could be more incongruous than that? It makes me want to laugh." [ Afterword ]” — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
I actually like being alone. I spend most evenings reading and taking long baths. — Shonda Rhimes Copy Share Image
The two best predictors of early reading success are alphabet recognition and phonemic awareness. — Marilyn Jager Adams Copy Share Image
Instead of reading vows at the wedding ceremony, they read hacked Sony emails. — David Letterman Copy Share Image
There isn't any distinction between a reader and a writer - reading is so much a part of it. — Dermot Healy Copy Share Image
Start writing the things that you are reading or that you want to be published doing. — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
“reading is like an aeroplane it allows you to travell all over with just a book in your hand” — Annakay Gordon Copy Share Image
I'm just writing what I know. I've never been much of a reader of fantasy, and I think you write what you,… — Sarah Dessen 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
“Think of me, the uneducated child reading books in my room at 22 Hyde Park Gate -- now advanced to this glory...… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“[When under stress I thought of] the books I had read [and applied] them to myself. I [imagined I was] one of… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
When I started reading George R.R. Martin's 'A Song of Ice and Fire' novels, it was the late 1990s and obsessing over… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
I was very aware of the fact that there are a lot of comics out there that I love, because I've grown… — Adrian Tomine Copy Share Image
Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Recently I was reading somewhere or other an Italian curio-dealer who attempted to sell a 17th century crucifix to J.P. Morgan. Inside… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Richard Foster is justified in writing: I am concerned that our reading and our writing is gravitating to the lowest common denominator… — John Piper Copy Share Image
Writing is a bit like swimming. You learn writing by doing it and you learn swimming by doing it. Nobody learns how… — Robert Munsch Copy Share Image
When I read a novel that I really like, I feel as if I am in direct, personal communication with the author.… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
To me, when one is writing sometimes about a very specific subject with very specific people, I feel like if that story… — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
In addition to exploring imaginative worlds, I believe that young people should have access to reading material that validates their life, that… — Theresa Breslin Copy Share Image
I guess we all feel like underdogs. I remember being a freshman at Brown University and not knowing what a WASP was.… — Stephen Karam Copy Share Image
“He was captured first by the illustrations, and then he began to read, to start with, the stories that dealt with magic,… — William Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
The physical domain of the country had its counterpart in me. The trails I made led outward into the hills and swamps,… — John Haines Copy Share Image
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