Enlightenment is the culmination of self-knowledge, pure unadulterated knowledge. Not knowledge you can get from reading a book, it comes from perfecting… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Though reading and conversation may furnish us with many ideas of men and things, yet it is our own meditation must form… — Isaac Watts Copy Share Image
I feel like reading really defined me as a writer because I lived my life outside of my own body for so… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
You don't read it in the sense of reading a message; it doesn't work like that. What's happening is that the Shadows… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
Sometimes, reading a blog, which I do infrequently, I see that generations of Americans have been wilfully crippled, and can no longer… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
“No policeman had ever arrested anyone for over-reading; but ignorance prosecutes those who under-read. You begin to stop growing on the day… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
“There are countless reasons for reading, but when you’re young and uncertain of your identity, of who you may be, one of… — Michael Cart Copy Share Image
I do believe that our modern English usage has become way too clipped and austere. I have been reading excerpts from the… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
I think as soon as I figured out - and this must have been incredibly young - that comic books were made… — Art Spiegelman Copy Share Image
I was really interested in the ritual of fire dancing. I saw it when I was a kid. My parents took me… — Miroslav Penkov Copy Share Image
Plate glass... has no beauty of its own. Ideally, you ought not to be able to see it at all, but through… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Literacy is part of everyday social practice - it mediates all aspects of everyday life. Literacy is always part of something else… — David Barton Copy Share Image
“A sensible person does not read a novel as a task. He reads it as a diversion. He is prepared to interest… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“Pat, if there's anything you recall about your first visit with Monsignor Frank Kief, I sincerely hope it's this: there is no… — Kerry Casey Copy Share Image
I believe you have to write every day–make the time. It’s about having an organized mind instead of a chaotic and untidy… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“And if the book is too silly, I find that it's often because the writer doesn't really have anything to say -… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
The freedom to be someone else entirely and be different versions of something. That's what I loved and I loved watching movies… — Gwendoline Christie Copy Share Image
When I was nine, I started reading Homer. I would get up at four o'clock in the morning, before I had to… — Franz Wright Copy Share Image
The truth is that I hate to think about other people reading my books," Miranda said. "It's like watching someone go through… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends, but they are imprisoned by an enchanter in these paper… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The quality of our reading is not only an index of the quality of our thought; it is our best-known route to… — Maryanne Wolf Copy Share Image
There are a lot of things we as individuals can't do much about. We can't solve global warming as individuals, or health… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
I've had a passion for horses since I was very young - I used to sit on the floor in front of… — David Cassidy Copy Share Image
Congratulations. The fact that you're reading this means you've taken one giant step closer to surviving until your next birthday. — James Patterson Copy Share Image
Reading is professionally important for me to keep tuned in to what's being written in my genre, let's not lie. But that's… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
“Reading is accumulating knowledge. But not only that. Reading offers us every day what religion promises us for a posthumous and improbable… — Camilo Gomes Jr Copy Share Image
I feel annoyed that in His wisdom, [God] chose to reel me in with middle-brow Christian fiction. It could be worse, I… — Lauren F. Winner Copy Share Image
I do recall loving 'All Quiet on the Western Front,' and I know I read it in a schoolroom, but I think… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
Don’t be in too much of a rush to be published. There is enormous value in listening and reading and writing—and then… — Sharon Creech Copy Share Image
If we're trying to excite young people about reading, we need to be experiencingbookjoy ourselves so that we have references to make.… — Pat Mora Copy Share Image
One of the maddening ironies of writing books is that it leaves so little time for reading others'. My bedside is piled… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
For someone who loves literature, and all books on principle, being asked to name three titles over a half century of serious… — Thomas Steinbeck Copy Share Image
But reading is not idleness?it is the passive, receptive side of civilization without which the active and creative world would be meaningless.… — Stephen Spender Copy Share Image
“We liked to believe there is an alternate world, a better world, populated entirely by characters created by the yearnings of humanity--governing… — Miguel Syjuco Copy Share Image
Intuition is like reading a word without having to spell it out. A child can't do that because it has had so… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply. They're either speaking or preparing… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
“It wasn’t story (good or bad) that pulled me in; it was English itself, the way it felt in my braces-caged mouth… — Kory Stamper Copy Share Image
When I was 20, political music was the uncoolest thing on earth. But when Bush got elected, that was the first time… — Bjork Copy Share Image
The prefect evening...lying down on the couch beside the bookcase and reading himself sleepy...Jim lying opposite him at the other end of… — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
“Part of the great wonder of reading is that it has the ability to make human beings feel more connected to one… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
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