I am passionate about reading, for myself and for kids. Our future as a compassionate, productive, healthy society is rooted in our… — Emma Walton Hamilton Copy Share Image
“Cirocco liked space, reading, and sex, not necessarily in that order. She had never been able to satisfactorily combine all three, but… — John Varley Copy Share Image
So it's happened, I kept thinking, you're in the middle of a story exactly as you've always wanted, and it's horrible. Fear… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
I think for me I was in kindergarten, so I was very young and my teacher acknowledged that I was very dyslexic… — A. J. Pritchard Copy Share Image
Even as a child, I had walked down streets reading novels, waiting for my feet to get stuck in tar as I… — Alissa Quart Copy Share Image
“Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody can read." [As quoted… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Fortunately, I don't spend too much time reading or worrying about what people have to say, but the goal for me throughout… — Landon Donovan Copy Share Image
Do people choose the art that inspires them — do they think it over, decide they might prefer the fabulous to the… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
I don't remember reading much at all during the writing of Eileen. I go through several years-long dry spells and I don't… — Ottessa Moshfegh Copy Share Image
Probably the single most commen response I get from my readesr, be it through e-mails or letters, is that they did not… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
Reading the script for 'Jennifer's Body,' I just thought that here was a script that really exposes the horror between girls and… — Karyn Kusama Copy Share Image
“This is the strange life of books that you enter along as a writer, mapping an unknown territory that arises as you… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Reading is learning, but applying is also learning and the more important kind of learning at that. Our chief method is to… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
Ultimately the first, best step in getting your work noticed is to write good work. If people don't engage in your writing,… — John Scalzi Copy Share Image
“Without moving, you walk through lands you imagine you can see, and your thoughts, weaving in and out of the story, delight… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Chapter One. The Bride." He held up the book then. "I'm reading it to you for relax." He practically shoved the book… — William Goldman Copy Share Image
I love reading - inspirational books, leadership books, biographies. I exercise a lot and put on my audio book. Even If you… — Robin Sharma Copy Share Image
“I look at words as if they were entities, sacred beings. There are words to which I tip my hat when I… — William Luce Copy Share Image
My behavior is nonetheless, deplorable. Unfortunately, I'm quite prone to such bouts of deplorability--take for instance, my fondness for reading books at… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
Reading, like writing, is a creative act. If readers only bring a narrow range of themselves to the book, then they'll only… — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
When I am working on a painting, everything that I am thinking about at the time - be it current events, the… — Ali Banisadr Copy Share Image
The last loan spell, at Reading, was the one I enjoyed most. The manager, Jose Gomes, put a lot of faith in… — Emiliano Martinez Copy Share Image
He that reads and grows no wiser seldom suspects his own deficiency, but complains of hard words and obscure sentences, and asks… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“What traitors books can be! you think they're backing you up, and they turn on you. Others can use them, too, and… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I never read the life of any important person without discovering that he knew more and could do more than I could… — J. B. Priestley Copy Share Image
When I wrote my first album, I was reading Joseph Campbell - he's this philosopher who writes about mythology. That inspired the… — MO Copy Share Image
“I have no cause to love Mr. Norrell- far from it. But I know this about him: he is a magician first… — Susanna Clarke Copy Share Image
I have written 240 books on a wide variety of topics. . . . Some of it I based on education I… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
I go through stages with all kinds of stuff. There'll be a couple of months where I'm reading, you know, like, fiction… — Syd Copy Share Image
I'm incredibly lazy. On a day off, I'm more likely to be sitting on our sofa reading a book than out and… — Phoebe Fox Copy Share Image
You have to give kids things they're interested in reading. That's what teachers do who are engaged in what their students want. — Jenna Bush Copy Share Image
“In the books I find the thrum of everything unsayable. The characters weep the way I want to, love the way I… — Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich Copy Share Image
The BBC is locked to the reading of the economy that is run out of Ed Miliband and Ed Balls' office. They… — Iain Duncan Smith Copy Share Image
My mother used to laugh that if they asked me to clean up my room, I would spend so much time reading… — Ayobami Adebayo Copy Share Image
I always feel like my book is a success when I see a child reading it, and they have their pointer finger… — Jan Brett Copy Share Image
My reading life is like an airport where a bunch of planes circle in a holding pattern, then - boom, boom, boom… — Laura Lippman Copy Share Image
I don't really listen to music when I work. I really have to focus on one thing at a time. I like… — Shahzia Sikander Copy Share Image
Books are health food for your brain and dessert for your soul. Books are one of the few proven sources of mental… — Pat Williams Copy Share Image
I tell you, the difference for me is between being victimized, terrorized, numbed by reading about different disasters, or reducing the anxiety… — Ted Danson Copy Share Image
Reading is such a personal thing to me. I'd much rather give someone a gift certificate to a bookstore, and let that… — Erik Larson Copy Share Image
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