It’s a good poem if I’m a different person when I’m finished reading it. — Brandon Stanton Copy Share Image
A writer must know how people read, what are the main sources of reading errors, and what can be done to possibly… — Rudolf Flesch Copy Share Image
Ruth Montgomery had a book I was reading called Aliens Among Us. She was an automatic writer. She used to go into… — Sammy Hagar Copy Share Image
if I'd thought that nobody would like it as I was writing it, I would have written it even more. But I… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
For instance, the notion of non-penal substitution. This idea, found in the work of the nineteenth century Scottish Reformed theologian John McLeod… — Oliver D. Crisp Copy Share Image
“Neither would you, had you grown up in a library of melodramatic romance novels.” — Clementine Holzinger Copy Share Image
I have always loved 'Stig of the Dump.' I think reading that book made me officially realise that I was a reader. — Eoin Colfer Copy Share Image
“My favorite thing in the world to do is read a book. I read Heidi, which I love, then I read another… — Mindy Warshaw Skolsky Copy Share Image
When I was nine, I started reading Homer. I would get up at four o'clock in the morning, before I had to… — Franz Wright Copy Share Image
I got a call from Shoaib Mansoor, and he asked if I'd be interested in doing the music of 'Bol.' I said,… — Atif Aslam Copy Share Image
I went to something like six different schools before the age of 12, so I was always the new girl and had… — Isla Fisher Copy Share Image
I wake up a little before six, and I go right to my study. That's where I do my daily reading of… — Jerry Falwell Copy Share Image
I'm really not responsible for what mental operation people have when they're reading my books other than the ones which are created… — Edward St Aubyn Copy Share Image
“Something was coming. Nola could feel it. She wanted to stop reading, but she couldn’t, because she could tell that this was… — Erica Bauermeister Copy Share Image
Write it down, boy. If you come across a passage in your reading that you’d like to remember, write it down in… — Keith Donohue Copy Share Image
Although a life-long fashion dropout, I have absorbed enough by reading Harper's Bazaar while waiting at the dentist's to have grasped that… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
“Instead of a book, what if we're actually writing (or not writing) in the margins of our lives? What if our lives… — Patti Digh Copy Share Image
“Courage is the ability to execute tasks and assignments without fear or intimidation.” — Agu Jaachynma N.E Copy Share Image
“reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with ones own” — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“There is much you can learn from books and scrolls. These books are my friends, my companions. They make me laugh and… — Christopher Paolini Copy Share Image
“Elliot finished his book in bed and pondered going to get another one. He only had so much time left, and he… — Sarah Rees Brennan Copy Share Image
“Music is the best storage for human memory. As soon as you hit play, it can take you back in time” — Ela Crain Copy Share Image
In bed at night, I could be reading some book, and I'll come across a sentence that's totally unrelated to some scene… — Liam Neeson Copy Share Image
When you're just reading a note card but when you're just reading a note card and it doesn't even feel real, it's… — Wale Copy Share Image
When I first started reading about the kabbalists, I would hear about them being seen in strange places. It would turn out… — Matisyahu Copy Share Image
I was reading the poems of Rochester. Rochester made himself out to be bisexual, but I think that was only to shock.… — Thom Gunn Copy Share Image
I like to read because it's the opposite of being on the go. Reading is the perfect antidote. — Joe Strummer Copy Share Image
I have to admit that 'Psychology Today' was one of the first magazines I started reading, back when I was 13 or… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
“It's not a silly pursuit to read beyond what's handed to you, to seek out new voices and leap over the usual… — Nova Ren Suma Copy Share Image
Seven actors have played Batman on the big screen, and if you can name all seven without reading any further, your youth… — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
I wish the English still possessed a shred of the old sense of humour which Puritanism, and dyspepsia, and newspaper reading, and… — Norman Douglas Copy Share Image
If I'm still wistful about On the Road, I look on the rest of the Kerouac oeuvre--the poems, the poems!--in horror. Read… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
Thank God the Internet didn't exist when I was 15, 16. I knew people were tearing me apart, but my God, if… — Emma Forrest Copy Share Image
“Initially [my favorite books] seem to immerse me in another life, but ultimately they immerse me in me; I am looking through… — Derek Thompson Copy Share Image
“Reading always calmed me down: filling my head with other - made up - people's problems and conflicts made my own seem… — Heather James Copy Share Image
Smell is a very animal thing, almost reptilian, where the more cerebral things like reading less so. — Iain Banks Copy Share Image