When I put my faith in Jesus Christ as my savior, and I asked him to forgive and to come into my… — Anne Graham Lotz Copy Share Image
“reading is like drugs, once u addicted of it u cant stay away ofurself from it n Writing is like sex, the… — AMG Copy Share Image
“The next time you feel yourself giving in to the sometimes overwhelming urge to panic about the fate of literature in the… — Adam Hammond Copy Share Image
WIDE, the margin between carte blanche and the white page. Nevertheless it is not in the margin that you can find me,… — Edmond Jabes Copy Share Image
here are the top three global resources getting scarcer in the twenty-first century: ozone layer, rain forest, people eager to read the… — Sandra Tsing Loh Copy Share Image
I was reading Emily Dickinson and Edwin Arlington Robinson, but these weren't the poets that influenced me. I think Gwendolyn Brooks influenced… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
There's nobody for me to attack in this matter even with soft and gentle ridicule-and I shouldn't ever think of using a… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A novelist writes a novel, and people read it. But reading is a solitary act. While it may elicit a varied and… — August Wilson Copy Share Image
I visited Paterson many years ago - 20 some years ago as a kind of day trip because of William Carlos Williams,… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
I have come to communism because of daddy Stalin and nobody must come and tell me that I mustn’t read Stalin. I… — Che Guevara Copy Share Image
The books one reads in childhood, and perhaps most of all the bad and good bad books, create in one's mind a… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I came to nonfiction through journalism. My first book was journalism, and it was so frustrating to me, while I was writing… — Lucas Mann Copy Share Image
I hadn't had any course work in ceramics. I had no courses in art education but I wasn't going to let this… — David C. Driskell Copy Share Image
Still in my coat and hat, I sank onto the stair to read the letter. (I never read without making sure I… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
I already read everything. I read poems and plays and novels and newspapers and comic books and magazines. I read tins in… — Janice Galloway Copy Share Image
“I want the kids to enjoy reading not only today but for the rest of their lives. I try to do all… — Ron Clark Copy Share Image
“The reader! You, dogged, uninsultable, print-oriented bastard, it's you I'm addressing, who else, from inside this monstrous fiction. You've read me this… — John Barth Copy Share Image
Suppose there were an experience machine that would give you any experience you desired. Superduper neuropsychologists could stimulate your brain so that… — Robert Nozick Copy Share Image
I saw more clearly than ever, that the first great and primary business to which I ought to attend every day was,… — George Muller Copy Share Image
I read individual stories a lot in magazines and other places, too, but I really think there's something to be said for… — Brian Evenson Copy Share Image
We live in such a celebrity-driven culture, but all those people have to go buy toilet paper, and all those people have… — Abbi Jacobson Copy Share Image
One year, I was a patron of a new opera. It was, to put it kindly, unpleasant to the ear. The friends… — Karen DeCrow Copy Share Image
I’m just thinking that would be pleasant. To be reading, say, out of a book, and you to come up and touch… — Jamie O'Neill Copy Share Image
I've been reading and researching various aspects of history - Dickens' London, Nelson's sea battles, Magellan's nautical explorations, the weapons and battles… — Gary Paulsen Copy Share Image
Drs. Margolis and Fisher have done a great service to education, computer science, and the culture at large. Unlocking the Clubhouse should… — Anita Borg Copy Share Image
With the advancement in e-reading technology, I was curious if it were possible for readers to be able to hear the actual… — Colleen Hoover Copy Share Image
“Reading is an act of contemplation, perhaps the only act in which we allow ourselves to merge with the consciousness of another… — David L. Ulin Copy Share Image
My only passions were books and music. As you might guess, I led a lonely life… Not that I knew what I… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Teaching literature is teaching how to read. How to notice things in a text that a speed-reading culture is trained to disregard,… — Barbara Johnson Copy Share Image
In a long story like 'Weathercraft,' it becomes kind of convoluted. It can become perhaps difficult to remember what led up to… — Jim Woodring Copy Share Image
I was very, very young when I first started acting. My first movie role I was in, I was eight years old… — Cameron Monaghan Copy Share Image
I always considered myself a loner. I mean, not like a poor-me, Byron-esque, I-should-have-brought-a-swimming-buddy loner. I mean the sort of person who… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
“Have you really read all those books in your room?" She laughed, "Oh God no. I've maybe read a third of 'em.… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Reading Chekhov, I felt not happy, exactly, but as close to happiness as I knew I was likely to come. And it… — Francine Prose Copy Share Image
For about a year, when we lived at Middlewick, I couldn't really go anywhere. But the children came and went as normal… — Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall Copy Share Image
Some people spend their entire lives reading but never get beyond reading the words on the page, they don't understand that the… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
“Books took, in her young life, the place of companions and childish games. She read a great deal without guidance or discrimination,… — Lyubov Dostoyevskaya Copy Share Image
“(As to how the Gatekeeper came to life) Once a bookworm, always a bookworm. But inspiration starts once that lowly worm crawls… — D.S. Quinio Copy Share Image
One of the coolest things about touring around, actually, is getting to meet people, and getting to pick up on things that… — Steven Hall Copy Share Image
Man must learn to rely upon himself. Reading bibles will not protect him from the blasts of winter, but houses, fires. and… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
