Good stories flow like honey but bad stories stick in the craw [gullet]. What is a bad story? It's a story that… — Arthur Christiansen Copy Share Image
Reading is like looking through several windows which open to an infinite landscape…For me life without reading would be like being in… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I can spend the day without writing or reading, but I can't spend a day without listening to music. I listen to… — Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt Copy Share Image
Reading is important. Books are important. Librarians are important. (Also, libraries are not child-care facilities, but sometimes feral children raise themselves among… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The success of the poem is determined not by how much the poet felt in writing it, but by how much the… — John Ciardi Copy Share Image
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My first novel - the novel I wrote before 'Midnight's Children' - feels, to me, now, very - I mean, I get… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Gandhi seldom taught with the help of books. He did not want to paralyse the pupils' intellect by loading it with book… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I myself discovered many authors through school reading lists and through school anthologies. The positives are: young readers can find the world… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“… if necessary, the books shall be divided as follows: you get the odd, I get the even pages; "the books" are… — Vera Pavlova Copy Share Image
“After I consumed Frost in his entirety, my days of exploration began. I read The Diving Comedy while leafing through E. E.… — Spencer Gordon Copy Share Image
“And the non-reading of books, you will object, should be characteristic of all collectors? This is news to me, you may say.… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
“The act of true reading is in its very essence democratic. Consider the nature of what happens when we read a book… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
If you ever go to a music session, you'll notice that the musicians can sit down and start playing right away, and… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
Through luminous and erudite readings of the texts, Hasana Sharp shows us how profound and radical is Spinoza's conception of nature and… — Michael Hardt Copy Share Image
All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
I don't believe in holy writ. Buy fifty books or twenty-five books, take three weeks off, read them and make up your… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
Reading and life are not separate but symbiotic. And for this serious task of imaginative discovery and self-discovery, there is and remains… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
Reading a hard copy book, and reading a book on an iPad are slightly different experiences. What they both have in common… — LeVar Burton Copy Share Image
Test scores aren't perfect, but having a test score for math or reading or other things that we can objectively measure is… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
It's a feeling you get. You could have a hundred actors reading for one part, and they could all be spectacular, but… — Daren Kagasoff Copy Share Image
When we started publishing, you had to be better than good. You had to be excellent. But as long as people are… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
I can always tell when you're reading somewhere in the house,' my mother used to say. 'There's a special silence, a reading… — Francis Spufford Copy Share Image
From the time I was a little boy I found myself reading history when I had a choice. I read a lot… — Donald Kagan Copy Share Image
I was reading poetry to my girlfriends, and they were like, 'You're really good. You should go to some poetry readings or… — Jill Scott Copy Share Image
Back in '86, '87, Steve Williams and Paul Davis and me were reading a book by Robert Hess called 'Eat to Win,'… — Tony Adams Copy Share Image
I go through stages with all kinds of stuff. There'll be a couple of months where I'm reading, you know, like, fiction… — Syd Copy Share Image
I have written 240 books on a wide variety of topics. . . . Some of it I based on education I… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“I have no cause to love Mr. Norrell- far from it. But I know this about him: he is a magician first… — Susanna Clarke Copy Share Image
When I wrote my first album, I was reading Joseph Campbell - he's this philosopher who writes about mythology. That inspired the… — MO Copy Share Image
I never read the life of any important person without discovering that he knew more and could do more than I could… — J. B. Priestley Copy Share Image
“In the books I find the thrum of everything unsayable. The characters weep the way I want to, love the way I… — Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich Copy Share Image
You have to give kids things they're interested in reading. That's what teachers do who are engaged in what their students want. — Jenna Bush Copy Share Image
I'm incredibly lazy. On a day off, I'm more likely to be sitting on our sofa reading a book than out and… — Phoebe Fox Copy Share Image
The last loan spell, at Reading, was the one I enjoyed most. The manager, Jose Gomes, put a lot of faith in… — Emiliano Martinez Copy Share Image
When I am working on a painting, everything that I am thinking about at the time - be it current events, the… — Ali Banisadr Copy Share Image
Reading, like writing, is a creative act. If readers only bring a narrow range of themselves to the book, then they'll only… — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
“What traitors books can be! you think they're backing you up, and they turn on you. Others can use them, too, and… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
He that reads and grows no wiser seldom suspects his own deficiency, but complains of hard words and obscure sentences, and asks… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I love reading - inspirational books, leadership books, biographies. I exercise a lot and put on my audio book. Even If you… — Robin Sharma Copy Share Image
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