Of course there is no denying the possible pleasure of holing up with a fat, slow-moving, mediocre novel; still, we all know… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
I keep on reading the Morning Star newspaper to see if there's any hope, but it seems to be in the 19th… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
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Benjamin: I'm glad to hear your witirng experiment inspired you to read more. Reading is the best way to learn to write.… — Mamahooana Copy Share Image
I hope and hoping feeds my pain I weep and weeping feeds my failing heart I laugh but the laughter does not… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
I've always loved reading fantasy. I used to pick out all the books in the library that had the little unicorn sticker… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
Paranormal fiction offers authors - and readers - the chance to answer the question, 'What if?' All the different ways that question… — Jeaniene Frost Copy Share Image
“Use more caution the next time you make a reading selection. Books, you know, are a lot like people, and each and… — Ethan Russell Erway Copy Share Image
When I'm not actually doing my work, I'm planning it or thinking about it or reading things that on some level are… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
I did not even go to kindergarten; I just started first grade when I was five and started reading right away. I… — Joan Ganz Cooney Copy Share Image
I guess I'm interested in the behind-the-surface feelings of the human condition, in my own way. I was always struck by the… — Signe Baumane Copy Share Image
I have this very moment finished reading a novel called The Vicar of Wakefield [by Oliver Goldsmith]… It appears to me, to… — Fanny Burney Copy Share Image
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I carried on buying paintings, works of art, and Yves Saint Laurent, if I may say so, had a right of inspection.… — Pierre Berge Copy Share Image
The six and one-fourth hours' television watching (the American average per day) which non-reading children do is what is called alpha-level learning.… — Carol Bly Copy Share Image
“As educators, as scholars — really, as readers — contested engagement is an important part of our work. We must engage with… — Leigh Patel Copy Share Image
I was kind of an outsider growing up, and I preferred reading to being with other kids. When I was about seven,… — Ann Hood Copy Share Image
The ideas of the classics, so far as living, are our commonplaces. It is the modern books that give us the latest… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
If I'm reading a book that doesn't leave me with questions, moving questions, that I feel confronted with, then for me it's… — Michael Haneke Copy Share Image
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Great readers, great listeners, and all have great work ethics. ... They work hard at what they do and they're devout to… — Andy Wilkinson Copy Share Image
Last but not least, she put on a pair of black-framed reading glasses she’d found on Mr. Mercer’s bedside table. If it… — Sara Shepard Copy Share Image
I've always been interested in animal behavior, and I keep reading about it because it's so surprising all the time - so… — Isabella Rossellini Copy Share Image
“Some of them are working hard indeed." "What are they doing?" "My boy!" he said, eyebrows raised. As if nothing could be… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
What, however, left a deep impression on me was the reading of the Ramayana before my father. During part of his illness… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
If they don't read, if they don't love reading; if they don't find themselves compulsively reading, I don't think they're really a… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
Nothing replaces being in the same room, face-to-face, breathing the same air and reading and feeling each other's micro-expressions. — Peter Guber Copy Share Image
I can definitely write a book. Growing up, I really learned that. The stuff I was reading were urban books and I… — Rod Wave Copy Share Image
“What happens when we start believing the world and what is important in it are only these reactions and prejudices? What kind… — Sergio Troncoso Copy Share Image
“the cheapest, most pleasurable way for a country of strangers to get to know each other and the rest of the world… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
We Americans are mildly interested, of course, in reading about the discovery of radium by Madame Curie, but what we really yearn… — Frank Crowninshield Copy Share Image
One rainy Sunday when I was in the third grade, I picked up a book to look at the pictures and discovered… — Beverly Cleary Copy Share Image
It amazes me that filmmakers will still film, and audiences will still watch, relationships so bankrupt of human feeling that the characters… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
I think the idea of signing on to a sort of very commercial show and a show that is as expansive as… — Jonathan Bailey Copy Share Image
When you watch a film, a huge part of it is the music and the coloring and everything that comes together to… — Maika Monroe Copy Share Image
I always have music on unless I'm reading aloud, which I always do before I hand anything in. It's the only way… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“You are not permitted to live and die as a non-entity because you have encountered the greatness that is associated with Christ.” — Jaachynma N.E. Agu Copy Share Image
Nothing can hide from me the conviction that an immortal soul needs for its sustenance something more than visiting, and gardening, and… — Thomas Wentworth Higginson Copy Share Image
It was as though I had been dying of thirst and the librarian had handed me a five gallon bucket of water.… — Gary Paulsen Copy Share Image
Information is not knowledge, and knowledge is not wisdom. Reading - even browsing - an old book can yield sustenance denied by… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
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