I started deliberately looking for characters, ideally outsiders and ideally Americans. So I just started reading widely, as I tell my students… — Erik Larson Copy Share Image
I've always noted with some awe the reading habits of the Australian public. Australians read more newspapers and magazines per head of… — Felix Dennis Copy Share Image
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Ishvara is the highest manifestation of the Absolute Reality, or in other words, the highest possible reading of the Absolute by the… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
In bed at night, I could be reading some book, and I'll come across a sentence that's totally unrelated to some scene… — Liam Neeson Copy Share Image
Reading is the key that opens doors to many good things in life. Reading shaped my dreams, and more reading helped me… — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image
Sometimes Joyce is hilarious. I read Finnegans Wake after graduate school and I had the great good fortune of reading it without… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“A person who does not read cannot think. He may have good mental processes, but he has nothing to think about. You… — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
You liked the freshness of it, c'mon try it" and I said "oh God, I read it three of four times" and… — Jeff Bridges Copy Share Image
I learned that a television show is not a collaboration. You give your 180 percent, but you do not question the show-runners.… — Illeana Douglas Copy Share Image
My historical reading of the situation is that these great monolithic empires developed, Rome, Turkey, and so forth, and they always break… — Timothy Leary Copy Share Image
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It's hard to tell if anyone's interested in reading a serialized story. But it's interesting to put in a cliffhanger each week.… — Daniel Clowes Copy Share Image
To travel best requires some time preparing for your visit to a particular location - that you don't travel anywhere without spending… — Arthur Frommer Copy Share Image
When it came time to be a professional rapper, I wouldn't sign anything without reading it. There was no way I was… — Queen Latifah Copy Share Image
Does one get faith by mere studying of books? Too much reading creates confusion. The Master used to say that one should… — Sarada Devi Copy Share Image
I think school is so important. I was good student. A rebel, but I did well in my studies. I don't close… — Bruno Tonioli Copy Share Image
In the olden days, the umpire didn't have to take any courses in mind reading. The pitcher told you he was going… — Leo Durocher Copy Share Image
My whole thing is that I want to explore why you read books, what's the purpose of reading, and maybe that it's… — Josh Radnor Copy Share Image
When I go on vacation, I take very few clothes and a whole lot of books. It's the most soothing thing in… — Nile Rodgers Copy Share Image
Mary Stewart will always be my goddess. I can pick up one of her early books - one I've read a dozen… — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Reading is my passion and my escape since I was 5 years old. Overall, children don't realize the magic that can live… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“Sister Ignatius taught me in Sunday School that "in the beginning there was light," but to me, it was always an incomplete… — Lorna Landvik Copy Share Image
All I want is a modest place in Mr X's Good Reading, Miss Y's Good Writing, and that new edition of One… — James Agate Copy Share Image
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When I was a little boy, I was reading Dante and I was saying to myself 'Bravo, Dante, Bravo.' It's so beautiful,… — Roberto Benigni Copy Share Image
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I do write about thinkers. And that's what I love about reading. My favorite books, the ones that made me sit there… — Amy King Copy Share Image
When you're first reading the script and thinking about playing the part, it's slightly daunting. It's easy to question, 'Is an audience… — Laura Dern Copy Share Image
The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency - the belief that the here… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
My mother was a first-grade teacher, so I credit her with this lifelong intellectual curiosity I have, and love of reading and… — Chesley Sullenberger Copy Share Image
I learned to write crime novels by reading people I hoped to emulate: people like James Lee Burke, Lawrence Block, Joseph Wambaugh,… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
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