My atheism doesn't define my day-to-day life at all. But I realize - and maybe it is because, unlike people who sort… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
I saw my first Broadway show when I was 10 years old. I saw 'Big: The Musical' and I remember going out… — Erich Bergen Copy Share Image
I used to read every, well, most nights. I think reading helps me in terms of relaxing... It helps me to get… — Rio Ferdinand Copy Share Image
Poetry seems to sink into us the way prose doesn't. I can still quote verses I learned when I was very young,… — Jack Prelutsky Copy Share Image
If you read the first page of one of my novels, I can guarantee that you will read the last one. This… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
It always struck me as pretty cool that people who changed the world often knew each other. After reading them separately, hearing… — Joe Lonsdale Copy Share Image
Because of the way we let the actors improvise, it feels like you're watching people react rather than actors reading lines -… — Oren Peli Copy Share Image
I will have an endless invisible night and read all those books and understand all until I am a liquid chromium cascade… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“There are readings—of the same text—that are dutiful, readings that map and dissect, readings that hear a rustling of unheard sounds, that… — A.S. Byatt Copy Share Image
“Reading, which had been at the heart of my intellectual and emotional existence, was suddenly beyond my grasp. I was used to… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
“[Roland] Barthes turned the thable on the author, saying no only the a book needs a reader to wake it into life,… — Robert Rowland Smith Copy Share Image
It is impossible to estimate full influence of the reading of the Word in a home day after day and year after… — J.R. Miller Copy Share Image
When we haven't the time to listen to each other's stories we seek out experts to tell us how to live. The… — Rachel Naomi Remen Copy Share Image
I sort of try to read the books when they come out impartially and not make up my mind, but the fact… — Daniel Radcliffe Copy Share Image
But what I really long to know you do not tell either: what you feel, although I've given you hints by the… — Gail Carson Levine Copy Share Image
I'm not one of those who spring up yelling, "Yippee! Another day!" I'll grumble and sulk around a couple of hours, reading… — Johnny Carson Copy Share Image
Mine is a European imagination, shaped largely by my very promiscuous reading in German, French, English and, with greater difficulty, Italian. — W. G. Sebald Copy Share Image
“Once he'd asked, "Don't you want to read? There are hundreds of books in the sitting room." She had laughed and said,… — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
The other day when we were reading The Little Mermaid again, at the part where it says that only human souls can… — Ekaterina Gordeeva Copy Share Image
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After the war, I went to the BBC monitoring service in Caversham, a suburb of Reading. It was a big aerial system… — Michael Bond Copy Share Image
I began reading everyhing in the family library. Kidnapped, Treasure Island, Robinson Crusoe. And of course, if you're running out of books… — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
What is for sale, what is not? If we really think that making your apologies to your wife or reading a bedside… — Arlie Russell Hochschild Copy Share Image
“All libraries must submit to a certain order, I answered. Indeed, agreed the professor, or all will be lost. The fall of… — Rawi Hage Copy Share Image
“Reading yourself as a fiction as well as a fact is the only way to keep the narrative open - the only… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
When we, as young women, are given the space to read, the act becomes a happy, private corner we can return to… — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
I found out a long time ago that if I indulged by stuffing my face with great food, lying about reading books… — Raquel Welch Copy Share Image
Nothing would please us more than to see our beloved children form the habit of reading the Gospels - not merely from… — Pope Pius X Copy Share Image
As I've gotten older there's just more awareness around what is good for my body internally, externally, physically. It's all about reading… — Jennifer Aniston Copy Share Image
I am so fortunate to have a mom who shared with me her love for books and helped me, from my earliest… — Robin Lopez Copy Share Image
I grew up in a household that really encouraged reading and writing. My mother loves philosophy and is constantly reading philosophy and… — Lulu Wang Copy Share Image
My ideal viewer is an 11-year-old girl who, like me, was once reading a book by Jean Plaidy and might be in… — Lucy Worsley Copy Share Image
In 1963 with Abington v. Schempp, The Court said that reading portions of the New Testament could be 'psychologically harmful' to the children. — Norman Geisler Copy Share Image
The initial research will be very indiscriminate. I do a lot of reading, buy a stack of books and read and digest… — John Jeremiah Sullivan Copy Share Image
I think that people who don't mind reading find the immersion and their ability to get into a deeper place with the… — Rick Remender Copy Share Image
When you're writing for the New York Times someone reading it knows the topic better than you do and knows when you've… — David Plotz Copy Share Image
Reading any piece of writing aloud is an acid test, particularly when it comes to dialogue. There were writers I'd always admired… — Anne Tyler Copy Share Image
I'm reading 'Ten Storey Love Song' by Richard Milward. I read his first novel, 'Apples,' after hearing a reading of his in… — Jed Mercurio Copy Share Image
With three of my own children, I have witnessed first-hand the vital role reading has played as part of their childhood and… — Harry Enfield Copy Share Image
Kids are no longer interested in reading comic books; they've got television and the electronic games that they can bury themselves in… — Al Feldstein Copy Share Image
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