My bookshelves chiefly function as a snapshot of what I was reading prior to the invention of the Kindle. — Charlie Brooker Copy Share Image
I think so much emphasis these days is placed upon achievement and skill and assessment that the joy has gone out of… — Emma Walton Hamilton Copy Share Image
I did a lot of reading of the Bible and became fascinated with the idea of the Rapture. It's pretty wild. I… — Tom Perrotta Copy Share Image
The art of reading between the lines is as old as manipulated information. — Serge Schmemann Copy Share Image
The Patriot Act allows Federal agents to look at public and university library patron circulation records, books checked out, magazines consulted, all… — Dennis Kucinich Copy Share Image
Kids and adults have a difference of opinion when it comes to what constitutes legitimate reading. Adults often push books that they… — Jeff Kinney Copy Share Image
Sometimes when reading Goethe I have the paralyzing suspicion that he is trying to be funny. — Guy Davenport Copy Share Image
Indeed, learning to write may be part of learning to read. For all I know, writing comes out of a superior devotion… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
No characters in 'Stay Close,' including the leads, are black and white. I want them to be grey. I think that makes… — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
From reading over the notes for each session it was apparent that there had been improvement by more or less regular steps… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
With my writing, I generally just pretend that no one's reading it. I allow myself that delusion so that I can write… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
I have always believed in the magic of childhood and think that if you get your life right that magic should never… — Colin Thompson Copy Share Image
I grew up reading genre writers, and to the degree that Eric Ambler and Graham Greene are genre writers, I'm a genre… — Alan Furst Copy Share Image
“Look at your daughter,' she whispered. 'As brave as...as.." She wanted to compare Meggie to a hero in some story but all… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
Gabriel Garcia Marquez is one of my all-time favorite writers. I feel spiritual when reading his words, even though they're translated. I… — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
“The point of reading is not reading but living. Reading helps you live with greater appreciation, keener insight and heightened emotional awareness.” — Steve Leveen Copy Share Image
Intensive mothering is the ultimate female Olympics: We are all in powerful competition with each other, in constant danger of being trumped… — Susan J. Douglas Copy Share Image
“Anything worth reading is not only worth reading twice, but worth reading again and again. If a book is worthwhile, then you… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
What I notice, as a historian reading stories about so-called nature miracles, the walking on the water, or the miraculous catch of… — John Dominic Crossan Copy Share Image
Expose yourself to as much as possible. Attend conferences no one else is attending. Read books no one else is reading. Talk… — Ben Casnocha Copy Share Image
I was always aware, reading Chesterton, that there was someone writing this who rejoiced in words, who deployed them on the page… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“The attraction of reading is that it allows you to live, for a few hours, as someone else—grants you access to their… — Alessandra Torre Copy Share Image
“Because while she's so pre-occupied reading... I'm so pre-occupied reading her.” — Jay McLean Copy Share Image
“I have advice for people who want to write. I don't care whether they're 5 or 500. There are three things that… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
When the Day of Judgment dawns and people, great and small, come marching in to receive their heavenly rewards, the Almighty will… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
If I'm writing about my life, I'm already thinking of anyone in my life who might be reading it, and I'm keeping… — Mandy Stadtmiller Copy Share Image
“Don't be amazed if you see my eyes always wandering. In fact, this is my way of reading, and it is only… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
The time-use studies also show that employed women spend as much time as nonworking women in direct interactions with their children. Employed… — Sandra Scarr 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
“Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind.” — Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Copy Share Image
I don't know where you're reading all this stuff, but it's pretty accurate, yes. It was in 1942. I was on a… — Haskell Wexler 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
“Lin Yutang also believed that reading is an art. One chapter of the Importance of Living is devoted to "the Art of… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
“Crossing my arms over my chest, I said, a little too heartily, “So this is the library.” There certainly couldn’t be any… — Lauren Willig Copy Share Image
“Readers are distrustful and, although they accept the rules of the proposed game upon entry, they remain on the lookout for the… — Marcos Giralt Torrente Copy Share Image
I do think reading is the best practice for writing, along with writing all the time. I actually never liked writing on… — Tavi Gevinson Copy Share Image
