We cannot educate white women and take them by the hand. Most of us are willing to help but we can't do… — Gloria E. Anzaldúa Copy Share Image
A book is a map. There will be times in your life when you will feel lost and confused. The way back… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
What makes me put pen to paper? You know, that's the million-dollar question. I've been writing since I've been reading. It's not… — Todd Solondz Copy Share Image
You don't have to signal a social conscience by looking like a frump. Lace knickers won't hasten the holocaust, you can ban… — Elizabeth Bibesco 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 have to say that my kids, like every child in America, is completely absorbed with Harry Potter. And so, I have… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
People are more likely to search for specific books in which they are actively interested and that justify all of that effort… — Joshua Meyrowitz Copy Share Image
The library will endure; it is the universe... We walk the corridors, searching the shelves and rearranging them, looking for lines of… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
There have been two [career highlights]. Waking up in New York to hear I'd been nominated for Best Actor for a Tony… — Martin Shaw Copy Share Image
The reason the world is not seeing Jesus is that Christian people are not filled with Jesus. They are satisfied with attending… — Smith Wigglesworth Copy Share Image
Talking Taboo is a groundbreaking book. This chorus of bold female voices is presenting the church with an opportunity to engage real… — Carolyn Custis James Copy Share Image
“I am shocked to find that some people think a 2 star 'I liked it' rating is a bad rating. What? I… — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
“He was drowning in depression and contemplating suicide. One day a friend noticed that his outlook had changed to hopeful serenity. The… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
As long as you notice, and have to count the steps, you are not yet dancing but only learning to dance. A… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
What's interesting is, there's always a lot of talk to young people about finding their passion, following their passion. But I remember… — Michelle Pfeiffer Copy Share Image
The world is like a sheet of paper on which something is typed. The reading and the meaning will vary with the… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
“Book lover n. 1. A person devoted to reading 2. One who would rather stay inside and read than go outside and… — Dictionary Copy Share Image
I'm always reading. Here's where an ebook reader really comes into its own. When I travel, it allows me to carry a… — Michael Scott Copy Share Image
You won't be reading reviews of the dystopian sci-fi flick Aeon Flux in the papers today because it wasn't screened for the… — David Edelstein Copy Share Image
“1897 edition How these papers have been placed in sequence will be made manifest in the reading of them. All needless matters… — Bram Stoker Copy Share Image
Underground comics were produced by individuals - they were the auteur variety, rather than the production-line sort of comic book aimed at… — Phoebe Gloeckner Copy Share Image
During my solitude, conflicting thoughts increased; but much exercise of soul had the effect of causing the scriptures to gain complete ascendancy… — John Nelson Darby Copy Share Image
We need to repent of our sin for not loving our children. Spend some time in repentance and read God’s Word and… — Carolyn Mahaney Copy Share Image
... Oceanic malaise. I never saw anyone reading anything more demanding than a comic book. I never heard any youth express an… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
I think the most reliable way to teach it is through reading work aloud over and over. Many prose writers been encouraged… — Paul Lisicky Copy Share Image
Avoid stock expressions (like the plague, as William Safire used to say) and repetitions. Don't say that as a boy your grandmother… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“The man who has not the habit of reading is imprisoned in his immediate world, in respect to time and space. His… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
Heaven, Kiwi thought, would be the reading room of a great library. But it would be private. Cozy. You wouldn’t have to… — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
You never know what you're in for when you take a role. When you're reading the script, you're in some café in… — Melissa George Copy Share Image
Strange now to think of you, gone without corsets & eyes, while I walk on the sunny pavement of Greenwich Village. downtown… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
I wrote this story for you, but when I began it I had not realized that girls grow quicker than books. As… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Reading for experience is the only reading that justifies excitement. Reading for facts is necessary bu the less said about it in… — Henry Seidel Canby Copy Share Image
I had a pretty regular childhood, with a rad mum who taught me to love reading and thinking and laughing, and (as… — Brooke Fraser Copy Share Image
My husband, William Sutcliffe, the writer, is my first reader and in many ways my most important. That initial reading of the… — Maggie O'Farrell 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
“I had gone to graduate school because I loved literature, but in graduate school you were not supposed to study literature. You… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
“Childhood is the time and children's books are the place for powerful emotions, powerful language, powerful art... There is no room for… — Betsy Hearne Copy Share Image
The diligent reading of Sacred Scripture accompanied by prayer brings about that intimate dialogue in which the person reading hears God who… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
“Surely it is better, thought Domenica, that forty-five should buy the book and actually read it, than should many thousands, indeed millions,… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“Children are capable, of course, of literary belief , when the story-maker's art is good enough to produce it. That state of… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image