If you get into the mental habit of relating what you're reading to the basic structure of the underlying ideas being demonstrated,… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Thanks to the Jolabokaflod, books still matter in Iceland; they get read and talked about. Excitement fills the air. Every reading is… — Hallgrimur Helgason Copy Share Image
Reading is also a creative activity if you're doing it right. You can learn more from a story that's left the tracks… — John Dufresne Copy Share Image
I quickly learned that reading is cumulative and proceeds by geometrical progression: each new reading builds upon whatever the reader has read… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
“Books,' I say sleepily. 'They don't change either. If you read a book and look at it again later on, it's still… — Truus Matti Copy Share Image
“I find that when I come out of the library I’m in what I call the library bliss of being totally taken… — Tracy Chevalier Copy Share Image
I don't know if any single book made me want to write. C.S. Lewis was the first writer to make me aware… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I'm definitely of the 'Harry Potter'-transfigured-me-into-a-reader-and-writer generation. And that's really all I read throughout my teen years, because I really devoted all… — Adam Silvera Copy Share Image
“This is the most important thing about me--I'm a card-carrying reader. All I really want to do is sit and read or… — Maxine Hong Kingston Copy Share Image
I studied Comparative Literature at Cornell. Structuralism was real big then. The idea of reading and writing as being this language game.… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
“Here's the thing: the act of reading changes your life, sometimes in large ways, sometimes in small ways, but every book you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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I went to the big Picasso retrospective at the Tate in the sixties, and I think I went to an Andy Warhol… — Marianne Faithfull Copy Share Image
I remember reading scripts when I started in the business, and [Latino roles] were either nonexistent or written as the maid or… — Eva Mendes Copy Share Image
When I'm writing, I really want to satisfy myself. I've got a story that I am working on and struggling with, and… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
“We all have a lot more to read than we can read and a lot more to do than we can do.… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
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One of the things about having worked at certain places is that it becomes very hard after you stop working at them… — Michael Wolf Copy Share Image
I always loved reading. I always was the spelling bee champion. I always loved words. I always wanted to know what they… — Brenda Lee Copy Share Image
Half the time I read Hayek's The Sensory Order with amazement at the extent of his reading and comprehension. He is right… — Edwin Boring Copy Share Image
Mark Twain on George Ade's writing: I have been reading him [Ade] again, and my admiration overflows all limits. How effortless the… — George Ade Copy Share Image
The true felicity of a lover of books is the luxurious turning of page by page, the surrender, not meanly abject, but… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
“Each time we come to a book we give it a different reading because we bring a different person to it. It… — Jack Lasenby Copy Share Image
For years I stopped reading beauty magazines because I couldn't look at one without wanting to blow my brains out. How can… — Jamie Lee Curtis Copy Share Image
I love reading interviews that we've done and seeing how we come across, and thinking, 'Mmm, maybe we shouldn't say that again.' — Tom Fletcher Copy Share Image
“Anyaele Sam Chiyson Leadership Law of Development: Surpassing leaders progress advancely from a lower to a higher state of leadership through leading… — Anyaele Sam Chiyson Copy Share Image
I am up at 3:30, reading the op-ed pages and getting ready to be on the air by 6 A.M. on the… — Mika Brzezinski Copy Share Image
My philosophy is as simple as ever - smoking, drinking, moderate sexual intercourse on a diminishing scale, reading and writing (not arithmetic).… — Noel Coward Copy Share Image
“I don’t have a lot of time. I can give a poem a couple of lines, a short story a paragraph, and… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
The simultaneous reactions elicited all over the world by the reading of newspaper dispatches about the same events create, as it were,… — Christian Lous Lange Copy Share Image
Fiction writing, and the reading of it, and book buying, have always been the activities of a tiny minority of people, even… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
I don't want my daughters reading about the day I was furious with one of them and said something horrible, that I… — Sheila Hancock Copy Share Image
Growing up in Georgia in the southeastern United States, I was always reading and always kept to myself. I never felt isolated,… — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
Do not ever read books about versification: no poet ever learnt it that way. If you are going to be a poet,… — A. E. Housman Copy Share Image
In my experience most mathematicians are intellectually lazy and especially dislike reading experimental papers. He seemed to have very strong biological intuitions… — Francis Crick Copy Share Image
It always starts with a script. I like to have plenty of time to read something, and I always like to read… — Felicity Jones Copy Share Image
“I am a man without many pleasures in life, a man whose few pleasures are small, but a man whose small pleasures… — Amanda Filipacchi Copy Share Image
I was a late bloomer when it came to reading. My parents didn't really read. Neither one of my parents went to… — Michelle Zauner Copy Share Image
The honor of being able to play Maura is transformative. I'm 70 years old. I should be in a reading room, reading… — Jeffrey Tambor Copy Share Image
A friend is a book that needs to be read to find its inner beauty. You're one of the best books ever… — Jeigh Ilano Copy Share Image
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