Reading is the most rewarding form of exile and the most necessary discipline for novelists who burn with the ambition to get… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
“You read a lot?" Galina finally asked. "Yes. It's an escape into another world." She tried to keep her words light instead… — Anne Mallory Copy Share Image
I keep reading that I'm cold. But I'm not, I'm shy. And I play a lot of women of fire and sexuality… — Emmanuelle Beart Copy Share Image
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When you're a kid, you see your parents reading the newspaper and you're like, 'God, why are they reading the newspaper?' When… — Fred Durst Copy Share Image
I'm not reading any novels right now, though not for lack of trying. Unless they're really good, my attention in most novels… — Matthew Healy Copy Share Image
Reading well makes children more interesting both to themselves and others, a process in which they will develop a sense of being… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
“But I’ve developed a great reputation for wisdom by ordering more books than I ever had time to read, and reading more… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
If we repeatedly read the Bible without the help of the Holy Spirit, it tends to reinforce our own prejudices and rock-hard… — Jim Cymbala Copy Share Image
Some actors might just do one thing, and another actor does another thing. I do an awful lot of preparation with the… — Michael Fassbender Copy Share Image
It's interesting that some people reading the comics see Scott Pilgrim as a blank slate in that they like to imagine themselves… — Edgar Wright Copy Share Image
Part of the pleasure of giving a reading comes from the rapport between the audience and the poet. I don't want to… — Ron Padgett Copy Share Image
My choices, including those related to the day-to-day aspects of life, like the use of a modest car, are related to a… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
You can take a book to the beach without worrying about sand getting in its works. You can take it to bed… — Nicholas G. Carr Copy Share Image
That happens a lot when people become parents, too. There's just so much at stake suddenly, and you're also witness to the… — Mason Jennings Copy Share Image
[Buckminster] Fuller's idea of progress is a very 1950s organization man out of the military sort of idea of progress. So as… — Jonathon Keats Copy Share Image
“Keep reading! Keep travelling! Keep thinking! And finally you will be there, in the Land of Wisdom where the mind has the… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
Protect your voice and your vision. If going on the Internet and reading Internet reviews is bad for you, don’t do it.… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
Now that I was compelled to think about it, reading was something that just came to me, as learning to fasten the… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
Fracking is our biggest enemy right now in the U.S. Actually, not just in the U.S., because all our water systems are… — Ian Somerhalder Copy Share Image
Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man,… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“He paused, then added, "Some of them are working very hard indeed." "What are they doing?" "My boy!" he said, eyebrows raised.… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
Children learn to read by being in the presence of books. The love of knowledge comes with reading and grows upon it.… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Life is hard, and a lot of people come home tired from work. If they're gonna spend half an hour reading, they… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
To solve the drug problem, we have to start at the root - first grade. If a boy has all the toys… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
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My routine consists of being awake by 6 A.M., reading and educating myself more and more on the Bible followed by nine… — Manny Ramirez Copy Share Image
“The words that strike us are those that awake an echo in a zone we have already made our own—the place where… — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
If you wish to be a lawyer, attach no consequence to the place you are in, or the person you are with;… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Babies are born with the instinct to speak, the way spiders are born with the instinct to spin webs. You don't need… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Happiness is not always reading the same page in the same book. Sometimes it is just wanting to hold the others book… — Faye Hall Copy Share Image
After all my years of playing soldiers, and then of reading History, I have almost a mania to be in the East,… — Wilfred Owen Copy Share Image
I think I write what's interesting to me, and so if I'm reading I like to have a very thorough idea of… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
“To be the best, you have to be willing to do what nobody does. And today, if nobody reads and nobody works… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
I was reading books about the Nazi presence not only in Argentina, but all over Latin America, and time and after time… — Lucia Puenzo Copy Share Image
Most of the time what I am reading is leadership books, books on the mind and a lot of deep stuff about… — Tobias Harris Copy Share Image
I've always loved reading diaries and memoirs and just getting a sense of different personalities and what made them tick as individuals. — Margaret MacMillan Copy Share Image
“Reading a wide variety of books and thus accessing very different sources of information, accessing very different worlds and ideas is a… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
Obviously, if I'm reading in Vienna or Venezuela or Italy, there's the issue of language, and I will make choices that are… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
Today we read books 'extensively,' often without sustained focus, and with rare exceptions we read each book only once. We value quantity… — Joshua Foer Copy Share Image
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