If you carry a paperback book in your back pocket, but spend more time on your hair than you do reading it,… — Dov Davidoff Copy Share Image
If you want to know why the towers of American capitalism are crumbling, I recommend reading 'The Creature from Jekyll Island' by… — Robert Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
My dad and my brother took me over to England a few times to train with various clubs. My brother basically ended… — Gylfi Sigurdsson Copy Share Image
At Juilliard, suddenly I was reading these great plays that could articulate the ways I was feeling in the Marine Corps, and… — Adam Driver Copy Share Image
I think sports makes for good drama because it has all the same ingredients as anything worth reading or listening to or… — Jay Baruchel Copy Share Image
Above all, a book is a riverbank for the river of language. Language without the riverbank is only television talk - a… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
Reading nice stuff about you is lovely, but I know it's going to be soul-destroying when you do something that everyone is… — George MacKay Copy Share Image
I knew at five years old what I wanted to do for a living. I started reading newspapers and books out loud… — Mauro Ranallo Copy Share Image
“The great writers have always been great readers, but that does not mean that they read all the books that, in their… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I am no novel-reader—I seldom look into novels—Do not imagine that I often read novels—It is really very well for a novel.”… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
The way to rock oneself back into writing is this. First gentle exercise in the air. Second the reading of good literature.… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
After reading The Great Transformation by Karl Polanyi, I realized that capitalism did not naturally grow as [Karl] Marx would imply by… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
You belong to the biblical race of Nephilim. Your real father was an angel who fell from heaven. You're half mortal." The… — Becca Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
I feel like one can have all of that as a writer; you're writing, you're reading, you're talking to interesting and intelligent… — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
“No book is really worth reading, which does not either impart valuable knowledge; or set before us some ideal of beauty, strength,… — J.R. Miller Copy Share Image
The thing about Tolkien, about The Lord of the Rings, is that it's perfect. It's this whole world, this whole process of… — Jo Walton Copy Share Image
I'm always reading. I have four books on my nightstand right now. The same is true with writing, I tend to work… — Colette Freedman Copy Share Image
“You will never know the purpose of a book in your life until you read it, and you will never know which… — Robin Sacredfire Copy Share Image
“You know what pulp is, Mr. Tallis? It's the flesh of a luscious fruit, mashed down into an incredible, half liquid richness.… — Mike Carey & Peter Gross Copy Share Image
The public schools I attended were dominated by athletics and rarely inspiring intellectually, but I enjoyed a small circle of interesting friends… — Harold E. Varmus Copy Share Image
It is by no means certain that we advance our philosophical quest by reading Plato or Aristotle. It may increase our knowledge… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
“News invented the modern world as much as the modern world invented news. Finding out what was going on elsewhere in the… — Lawrence Kleep Copy Share Image
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“Fiction should be a place of lollipops and escape. Real life is depressing enough--I, for one, don't want to read about make… — Nicole Christie Copy Share Image
Reading will put you into the minds and hearts of others. It might help you understand why other people do what they… — Scott Simon Copy Share Image
“Each book was like an underwater cave, and when I rose again to the surface, I was pale and grumpy, resentful of… — Mary Stewart Atwell Copy Share Image
'Just looking at pictures' used to be considered cheating. No longer. The graphic novel is booming. Comics, heavily illustrated texts, books with… — Jon Scieszka Copy Share Image
I love reading people. I really enjoy watching, observing, and being able to figure out a person, the reason they wore that… — Rihanna 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
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
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
“The moment that counts most for me is the one that precedes reading. At times a title is enough to kindle in… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
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'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
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
When fear enters the heart of a man at hearing the names of candidates and the reading of laws that are proposed,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Writing and reading allow one consciousness to find and take shelter in another. When the minds of the reader and writer perfectly… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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
There is no greater happiness for a man than approaching a door at the end of a day knowing someone on the… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image