“Why do you think people stopped reading? We read to connect with other minds. But why read when you're busy writing, describing… — Alena Graedon Copy Share Image
Every time I do a movie, I'm reading the script, or if it's something I have coming up, I'm reading the script,… — Mark Wahlberg Copy Share Image
How truly does this journal contain my real and undisguised thoughts--I always write it according to the humour I am in, and… — Fanny Burney Copy Share Image
I think New York is working its way into my poems. It takes a while for a place to filter its way… — Nick Laird Copy Share Image
There are times it's the only thing I want and I wonder how I'll ever go back to the world of noise… — Eric Lange Copy Share Image
In my own research, teaching and consulting experience I have to combine lessons from the field in a relatively inductive and open… — Yves Doz Copy Share Image
“A library of mostly unread books is far more inspiring than a library of books already read. There’s nothing more exciting than… — Gabe Habash Copy Share Image
I've always liked elliptical writing, whether it's Kafka or Paula Fox, and I'm often bored by writers who explain too much. I… — Lynne Tillman Copy Share Image
“Unlike music, excessive reading has been shown to be dangerous for the female mind. It was taught in our earliest lectures: the… — Anna Hope Copy Share Image
Now musing o'er the changing scene Farmers behind the tavern screen Collect; with elbows idly press'd On hob, reclines the corner's guest,… — John Clare Copy Share Image
So we start with an oversignifying reader. Those texts that appear to reward this reader for this additional investment - text that… — Don Paterson Copy Share Image
I don't think it's unfair to have writers. I think if you're going to do a roast on television, as if you… — Jeff Ross Copy Share Image
I was reading in the Bible and one translation says that Jesus said that if you publicly will acknowledge me before people,… — Joel Osteen Copy Share Image
I was reading a Time magazine interview with an author named Brené Brown. She said, "People that fail seem to ultimately do… — Michael Buble Copy Share Image
Each morning we sat reading our copy of the New York Times, the Washington Post or the Los Angeles Times and ruminated… — Dick Morris Copy Share Image
Thomas jabbed a thumb over his shoulder and raised his eyebrows. "You met our new friend?" Miho responded, a smirk flashing across… — James Dashner Copy Share Image
Amidst the flood of dangerous reading, I plead for my Master's book; I call upon you not to forget the book of… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
I think training your instinct comes from writing and reading. There's no big secret. And reading slush helps, as well; I'd recommend… — Mary J. Miller Copy Share Image
“One of the ironies of college is that the impossibility of reading your way out of the modern predicament is something you… — Joshua Rothman Copy Share Image
I read "Milk" and immediately I was very emotional after reading it and then I saw the documentary - the one that… — Josh Brolin Copy Share Image
“When I was young I studied in the west suburb, with the birds of the forest as my only neighbours. I would… — Wang Chieh Copy Share Image
I read continually and don't understand writers who say they don't read while working on a book. For a start, a book… — Paul Lynch Copy Share Image
I think reading is a gift. It was a gift that was given to me as a child by many people, and… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
In The Last of Her Kind, Sigrid Nunez once again creates characters of such depth and situations of such vivid moral complexity… — Margot Livesey Copy Share Image
Some people never learn how to talk to kids. They turn up the volume and enunciate with extra care, as if talking… — F. Paul Wilson Copy Share Image
“Welcome to Book-a-holic Anonymous. Hi, I'm Jazz and I am addicted to the written word. I love the smell of the blackest… — Jazz Feylynn 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 was not a choice of writing or not writing. It was a choice of loving my life or not loving my… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
I kid the Republicans, with love. I feel bad for them. They got nobody for next time. Who are they gonna run?… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
“Douglas has more books- and comic books- than anyone I know. Still, if you wanted to borrow one, and took it down… — Meg Cabot Copy Share Image
There's very little to be said for learning a piece note by note, reading the rhythmic markings, practising the fingerings and following… — Barry Green Copy Share Image
In reading we must become creators. Once the child has learned to read alone, and can pick up a book without illustrations,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It does not take long. Soon the fine galloping language, the gutless swooning full of sapless trees and dehydrated lusts begins to… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
If I write a paragraph and I don't get a certain lift from it, if I don't feel connected to it emotionally,… — Oscar Hijuelos Copy Share Image
All the information in the universe, plus several bits from other dimensions that I'm still trying to sort out, have just been… — R. U. Sirius Copy Share Image
“Look at your daughter,' she whispered. 'As brave as...as.." She wanted to compare Meggie to a hero in some story but all… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
I had never understood quite so clearly the effective power of Jane Jacob's writing - no, her clear-headed observation - as I… — Nancy Milford Copy Share Image
“You only benefit from books if you can give something back to them. What I mean is, if you approach them in… — Sándor Márai Copy Share Image
[When] Johnny Mnemonic was coming out and I realized that all the kids that worked in 7-11 knew more - or thought… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
I remember reading a book that was on songwriting at some point that I found in my dad's store, and just... I… — Larkin Grimm Copy Share Image
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