Do people choose the art that inspires them — do they think it over, decide they might prefer the fabulous to the… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
My behavior is nonetheless, deplorable. Unfortunately, I'm quite prone to such bouts of deplorability--take for instance, my fondness for reading books at… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
“I look at words as if they were entities, sacred beings. There are words to which I tip my hat when I… — William Luce Copy Share Image
“Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody can read." [As quoted… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Even as a child, I had walked down streets reading novels, waiting for my feet to get stuck in tar as I… — Alissa Quart Copy Share Image
Fortunately, I don't spend too much time reading or worrying about what people have to say, but the goal for me throughout… — Landon Donovan Copy Share Image
“Cirocco liked space, reading, and sex, not necessarily in that order. She had never been able to satisfactorily combine all three, but… — John Varley Copy Share Image
I am passionate about reading, for myself and for kids. Our future as a compassionate, productive, healthy society is rooted in our… — Emma Walton Hamilton Copy Share Image
The big problem is just this kind of gigantic piece, of kids reading less and liking it less and so getting worse… — Jon Scieszka Copy Share Image
I like California because it still has the glamour and romanticism and exoticism of a very foreign place. It was the place… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
That's the difference between a real journal and one that's invented for a novel. A novel journal has to be manipulated so… — Cris Mazza Copy Share Image
Particularly when I thought of myself as a Wallace Stevens acolyte, I wrote very difficult poetry and I was really guilty of… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
The best moments in reading are when you come across something - a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
...there is a celebrated aphorism insisting that the best way to live is to 'work like you don't need the money, dance… — Gina Barreca Copy Share Image
The whole thing is this: If you don't use just basic grammar, if you don't get the language down, you're not going… — Jimmy Santiago Baca Copy Share Image
I try to just be open to what the next experience is and how it makes me feel, just reading a project,… — Chiwetel Ejiofor Copy Share Image
I think for me I was in kindergarten, so I was very young and my teacher acknowledged that I was very dyslexic… — A. J. Pritchard Copy Share Image
So it's happened, I kept thinking, you're in the middle of a story exactly as you've always wanted, and it's horrible. Fear… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
“The influence of early books is profound. So much of the future lies on the shelves. Early reading has more influence than… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
Till a man can judge whether they be truths or not, his understanding is but little improved, and thus men of much… — John Locke Copy Share Image
“She folds the pages of the books she reads when she wants to remember something important. Her favorite books are accordions, testaments… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
I've stopped reading about the death of books because it's wasteful and morbid and insulting to the authors, agents, publishers, booksellers, critics,… — Patrick deWitt Copy Share Image
“Prior to any generalization about literature, literary texts have to be read, and the possibility of reading can never be taken for… — Paul De Man Copy Share Image
A taste for the best reading is not cultivated in Spanish girls, even where the treasures of that great Castilian literature are… — Katharine Lee Bates Copy Share Image
Basically, my musical life is split between raving with drugged-up kids and reading obscure 75-year-old poetry, drinking very nice red wine with… — Henrik Vibskov Copy Share Image
I often have trouble falling asleep at night, so when I'm lying in bed I think up stories. That's where I do… — Linda Sue Park Copy Share Image
I always think of my characters as alive human beings and try to generate questions around their life and understand their socio-political… — Abhishek Banerjee Copy Share Image
I, of course, wanted to do something with Drew Barrymore. Please. So we were reading scripts back and forth and then we… — Jimmy Fallon Copy Share Image
I've met so many people who have come up to tell me their personal stories, and a lot of them express the… — Lizzie Velasquez Copy Share Image
The savage repression of blacks, which can be estimated by reading the obituary columns of the nation's dailies, Fred Hampton, etc., has… — George Jackson Copy Share Image
Just as you wouldn't leave the house without taking a shower, you shouldn't start the day without at least 10 minutes of… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Reading or written language is a cultural invention that necessitated totally new connections among structures in the human brain underlying language, perception,… — Maryanne Wolf Copy Share Image
Learning from books is so empowering - whether it be from history, a novel or a poem. When you come away from… — Lisa Lucas Copy Share Image
Reading was such a formative part of my childhood (along with 'Loony Tunes'), that it is difficult to pin point the most… — Ann-Marie MacDonald Copy Share Image
Since my adaptation of Ian McEwan's 'Atonement,' I get sent a lot of novels that people think will work as movies. So… — Christopher Hampton Copy Share Image
I can always tell when I'm about to start writing. I go through cycles in reading. When I'm beginning to start to… — Patricia MacLachlan Copy Share Image
Of all things I liked books best. My father had a large library and whenever I could manage I tried to satisfy… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
Proust is a hero of mine. I read 'A la recherche' in one go, and I'm a very slow reader. It had… — Edward St Aubyn Copy Share Image
You know, Mick Jagger's "Sympathy for the Devil." I think it was inspired by that [H.P.Lovecraft stories]. You don't know who's reading… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
There is so much to read and the days are so short! I get more hungry for knowledge every day, and less… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
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