I learned by reading an awful lot and by writing a half a million words of stuff nobody would do anything with… — Harry Turtledove Copy Share Image
You have to have really wide reading habits and pay attention to the news and just everything that's going on in the… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Grandma told me Mama was once caught by the Principal for writing in the front of her book, "In Case of Fire,… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
A mathematician will recognise Cauchy, Gauss, Jacobi or Helmholtz after reading a few pages, just as musicians recognise, from the first few… — Ludwig Boltzmann Copy Share Image
I think you learn how to write by reading an enormous amount, so then your memory is stocked with various constructions, various… — Lucy Hughes-Hallett Copy Share Image
“King Arthur's Knights had been the first book Arthur had read late at night under the covers with a torch...it was he… — Charlie Lovett Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, I was running around; I was a little tomboy. So I was just running around trying to… — Dania Ramirez Copy Share Image
I liked reading about the nun who ate so dainty with her fingers she never dripped any grease on herself. I've never… — Helene Hanff Copy Share Image
One of the coolest things about touring around, actually, is getting to meet people, and getting to pick up on things that… — Steven Hall Copy Share Image
“(As to how the Gatekeeper came to life) Once a bookworm, always a bookworm. But inspiration starts once that lowly worm crawls… — D.S. Quinio Copy Share Image
“Books took, in her young life, the place of companions and childish games. She read a great deal without guidance or discrimination,… — Lyubov Dostoyevskaya Copy Share Image
Man must learn to rely upon himself. Reading bibles will not protect him from the blasts of winter, but houses, fires. and… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“How ... how fragile situations are. But not tenuous. Delicate, but not flimsy, not indulgent. Delicate, that's why they keep breaking, they… — William Gaddis Copy Share Image
“...but she wrote out some extra words on a piece of paper so Rain could practice reading. "Is this a magic spell?"… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
Your job, your invitation from the Universe, is to give people back to themselves. You can do this every day, in a… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
In 1970 the top three skills required by the Fortune 500 were the three Rs: reading, writing, and arithmetic. In 1999 the… — Linda Darling-Hammond Copy Share Image
I try to be a good human being and keep up with what's going on in the world by reading and staying… — Bob Feller Copy Share Image
Are you unselfish? That is the question. If you are, you will be perfect without reading a single religious book, without going… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Give the child good books, then let it alone! Don't plough and harrow its brain, or stretch it on Procrustes-beds of standardization,… — Laura E. Richards Copy Share Image
I go to bed early and rise late and feel as if I have hardly slept, probably because I have been reading… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I am working on a technical paper on compassion. So I am reading everything I can on the subject, including my own… — Joan Halifax Copy Share Image
Being an immigrant mother can be hard, but being a poor immigrant mother is much harder. You don't generally get to sit… — Pamela Druckerman Copy Share Image
“Doom is nigh. I am in acute distress, desperately trying to coax sleep, opening my eyes every few seconds to check their… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
The BBC's aim, along with schools, libraries and literacy groups, to involve more people in reading groups is an exciting idea and… — Tessa Jowell Copy Share Image
I think my brain is full of collisions and that's how I like to read and process information. I'm always comparing things… — Victoria Chang Copy Share Image
I know a lot of writers who tell me they 'always' knew how to read. They can't remember a time before reading.… — Kameron Hurley Copy Share Image
My mother was an English teacher and she imbibed the habit of reading, and encouraged me to participate in debates and the… — Divya Khosla Kumar Copy Share Image
Oftentimes you read scripts, and you get to one and you think, 'OK, is this good, or is this just better than… — Sissy Spacek Copy Share Image
When I was 12, I was probably writing 'Twilight' fanfic, and somewhere someone was reading it being like, 'This is really disturbing.' — Rachel Sennott Copy Share Image
If I'm reading something and a word pops up, or I just catch it, I try to mark it off and then,… — Robert Barry Copy Share Image
I am not unique in my elegiac sadness at watching reading die, in the era that celebrates Stephen King and J.K. Rowling… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
The importance and influence of books on me has been cumulative: the result of hearing and reading lots of stories about interesting… — Louise Brown Copy Share Image
There is no difference between me and Netanyahu in reading the threat of Iran. There is no daylight between us on this… — Isaac Herzog Copy Share Image
“Reading is a time machine that allows you to acquire wisdom from the past and to analyze and imagine another person’s vision… — Joshua Rogers Copy Share Image
“But the library - especially one so vast - is no mere cabinet of curiosities; it's a world, complete and uncompleteable, and… — Matthew Battles Copy Share Image
It may be enough to study history in all its nuance and ambiguity for its own sake. But there is no country… — Colm Toibin Copy Share Image
A great variety of reading confuses and does not teach. It makes the student like a man who dwells everywhere and, therefore,… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
I have had moments where I've had mental-health issues and I've felt like yoga and meditating and reading these Buddhist self-help books… — Mike White Copy Share Image
I had the advantage of reading the book, and when the script was first submitted to me, it was just another gangster… — Edward G. Robinson Copy Share Image
I'm still reading some scripts and I model as well, so I'm still doing that. But I don't want to do like… — Kim Smith Copy Share Image
