Nature has her language, and she is not unveracious; but we don't know all the intricacies of her syntax just yet, and… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“...being daunted by her father in every intellectual attempt, she read every book that came in her way, almost with as much… — Elizabeth Gaskell Wives and Daughters Copy Share Image
I do still read comics since I started writing for DC, but nowhere near as much as I used to, and I'm… — Karen Traviss Copy Share Image
Books are something social - a writer speaking to a reader - so I think making the reading of a book the… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
Religion is not what you will get after reading all the scriptures of the world. It is not really what is grasped… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I do a lot of reading, a lot of studying. I ask questions, I'll go out, travel these countries, I'll watch how… — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
I don't like reading music. It's like learning a language. You can't read music proficiently overnight. It takes time, it's boring work. — William Eggleston Copy Share Image
I hope to be with you as a writer for a very long time, and I hope that you will enjoy reading… — Guy Johnson Copy Share Image
We can create the sensation of community through the accrual of actions, and that's often the clichéd way that storytelling is talked… — Vijay Iyer Copy Share Image
I do not think reading the mystics would hurt you myself: you say you must avoid books which deal with 'feelings' -… — Evelyn Underhill Copy Share Image
“Reading, she tells me, is what she does best. She loves it because it uses the whole of her, the right and… — Jenny Hubbard Copy Share Image
Reading... there have been millions and billions and billions and gazillions of people that have lived before all of us. There's no… — Will Smith Copy Share Image
Yes, but another writer I read in high school who just knocked me out was Theodore Dreiser. I read An American Tragedy… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
With the increasingly important role of intelligent machines in all phases of our lives--military, medical, economic and financial, political--it is odd to… — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
“The poem or the discovery exists in two moments of vision: the moment of appreciation as much as that of creation; for… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
It's different in Scotland. People who come to readings are more interested in literature as such, but the readership in general is… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
Of course we all know people who aren't cut out for college, but I know it's a mistake to think of education… — Rebecca Mead Copy Share Image
A modern philosopher who has never once suspected himself of being a charlatan must be such a shallow mind that his work… — Leszek Kolakowski Copy Share Image
In terms of sheer pleasure, Tom Stoppard was very big for me because he is so funny and so smart, and it… — Greta Gerwig Copy Share Image
There's the excitement of adding color, which I didn't know anything about until 1997 or so, when I did my first picture… — Jules Feiffer Copy Share Image
There is something I keep wanting to say about reading short stories. I am doing it now, because I many never have… — Mavis Gallant Copy Share Image
I started reading Dickens when I was about 12, and I particularly liked all of the orphan books. I always liked books… — John Boyne Copy Share Image
I was always told that I was good in mathematics, and I guess my grades and standardized test scores supported that. My… — Henry Petroski Copy Share Image
Consciousness is evolving throughout the universe in billions of forms. So even if we didn't make it, this wouldn't matter on cosmic… — Eckhart Tolle 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
In the future there are going to be no pretty girls, for the simple reason there will be no plain girls against… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
When I write for 'n+1,' I begin by doing a lot of reading, to try to convince myself I'm not stupid. Then… — Chad Harbach Copy Share Image
I've been reading Peter Straub since I was a teenager, and his work is hardwired into my brain. A Dark Matter contains… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
Blessed is he who invented recording! But what a pity that he was not born centuries earlier! Think only of all that… — Wanda Landowska Copy Share Image
“Physical vision - one might say scientific vision - brings about a metaphysical shift in the observer's view of reality as a… — Richard Holmes Copy Share Image
People are worse educated than they used to be. Certainly they are not very interested in reading books, as opposed to watching… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
I was really interested in the ritual of fire dancing. I saw it when I was a kid. My parents took me… — Miroslav Penkov Copy Share Image
I think as soon as I figured out - and this must have been incredibly young - that comic books were made… — Art Spiegelman Copy Share Image
“A sensible person does not read a novel as a task. He reads it as a diversion. He is prepared to interest… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Literacy is part of everyday social practice - it mediates all aspects of everyday life. Literacy is always part of something else… — David Barton Copy Share Image
Plate glass... has no beauty of its own. Ideally, you ought not to be able to see it at all, but through… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
I believe you have to write every day–make the time. It’s about having an organized mind instead of a chaotic and untidy… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“Pat, if there's anything you recall about your first visit with Monsignor Frank Kief, I sincerely hope it's this: there is no… — Kerry Casey Copy Share Image
“And if the book is too silly, I find that it's often because the writer doesn't really have anything to say -… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
Sometimes you go to a film and well, you are not very concentrated. In reading, you have to concentrate, to spend the… — Albert Serra Copy Share Image
