Study has been for me the sovereign remedy against all the disappointments of life. I have never known any trouble that an… — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
Reading books might itself be a bit weird, but obviously okay, since books were part of school, and doing well in school… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
I'm from South Jersey: The idea of eating a roll with olive oil and anchovies or some kind of sardine and drinking… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
The world that is a book is devoured bya reader who is a letter in the world's text; thus a circular metaphor… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
My greatest strength as a child, I realize now, was my imagination. While every other kid was reading and writing, I had… — Barbara Corcoran Copy Share Image
Reading a good poem can give me a far bigger kick than a novel. But it's not something I can keep doing.… — Stephen Dobyns Copy Share Image
Well, I've been reading a lot about the fifty years since the Second World War, about Western foreign policy and all that.… — Thom Yorke Copy Share Image
Oh, I'm nerdy about science fiction and fantasy and graphic novels and reading, and I'm nerdy about board games. My favorite board… — Billy Campbell Copy Share Image
Reading... there have been millions and billions and billions and gazillions of people that have lived before all of us. There's no… — Will Smith Copy Share Image
“Reading, she tells me, is what she does best. She loves it because it uses the whole of her, the right and… — Jenny Hubbard Copy Share Image
Yes, but another writer I read in high school who just knocked me out was Theodore Dreiser. I read An American Tragedy… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
With the increasingly important role of intelligent machines in all phases of our lives--military, medical, economic and financial, political--it is odd to… — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
“The poem or the discovery exists in two moments of vision: the moment of appreciation as much as that of creation; for… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
There's the excitement of adding color, which I didn't know anything about until 1997 or so, when I did my first picture… — Jules Feiffer Copy Share Image
It's different in Scotland. People who come to readings are more interested in literature as such, but the readership in general is… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
There is something I keep wanting to say about reading short stories. I am doing it now, because I many never have… — Mavis Gallant Copy Share Image
I'm not specifically attached to anything other than trying to, in my personal life, fight against where I see right wing thinking.… — Janeane Garofalo Copy Share Image
My role is to promote the authors image and their new books. I'm also brought on board when the author is "between… — Tom Robinson Copy Share Image
The problem with most digital comics is that you're simply taking print material and adapting it. It's like reading through a cardboard… — Mark Waid Copy Share Image
I know that when I was a kid, and I was reading whatever I could get my hands on, I didn't associate… — Noelle Stevenson Copy Share Image
A discursive student is almost certain to fall into bad company. Ten minutes with a French novel or a German rationalist have… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I achieved everything one can achieve as a concert singer. Six Echo Klassik awards and three Grammys, and I also have my… — Thomas Quasthoff Copy Share Image
“In time, we found a common interest in poetry. He reads nothing else. Day in, day out. Never happier he is than… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I've never had a supernatural experience. I've been tempted to maybe have a tarot-card reading, but I don't know if I'd necessarily… — Samantha Shannon Copy Share Image
I just stopped reading a lot of books. I mean, I read books that I have to read for school, but I… — Mark Indelicato Copy Share Image
You got to deal with reviews the same way you deal with your views, which I a long time ago stopped reading… — Steven Soderbergh Copy Share Image
I am sure everyone has had the experience of reading a book and finding it vibrating with aliveness, with colour and immediacy.… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
It is absurd to think that the only way to tell if a poem is lasting is to wait and see if… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
“You really love to gossip, don't you?” he asked, wishing she had brought him a glass of wine. “Yes, I suppose I… — Donna Leon Copy Share Image
I don't personally try to balance my work because I operate under the assumption that anyone reading or watching my stuff isn't… — Lev Yilmaz Copy Share Image
Imagine - four years you could have spent travelling around Europe meeting people, or going to the Far East of Africa or… — Shel Silverstein Copy Share Image
I'm 52 years old, which means I'm of an age where my reading habits are more or less set. I read plenty… — Michael Wilbon Copy Share Image
I like reading. I prefer not reading on my computer, because that makes whatever I am reading feel like work. I do… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
'Hairspray' was a show I was involved in from the very first reading, and I was 19. And, 'Hairspray', was one of… — Laura Bell Bundy Copy Share Image
I grew up as an only child and my mother was also an only child, so we were both very passionate about… — Kate Beckinsale Copy Share Image
If the history of England be ever written by one who has the knowledge and the courage,-and both qualities are equally requisite… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
I think people make certain assumptions about what they're interested in reading or what others would be interested in reading, and when… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
“Because that’s the thing about reading / books. For all their vulnerabilities and lack of pull relative to screens, reading / books… — Junot Díaz Copy Share Image
People feel compelled to continue reading and hearing the news. Sometimes, you just want somebody to be yelling at it with you… — Alexandra Petri Copy Share Image
Reading and watching movies are the only two things I do. I'm moody, so at times I'm annoyingly introverted; at other times… — Sriti Jha Copy Share Image
