“going out late at night and laying in the dewy field and reading a Kurt Vonnegut book by moonlight.” — John Green Copy Share Image
When I went to high school - that's about as far as I got - reading my U.S. history textbook, well, I… — Utah Phillips Copy Share Image
Being Jewish, you didn't get into a sorority. So I really was much more outgoing and gregarious. I really didn't want to… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
I thoroughly believe that reading and literature can help a society to better understand itself. — Emmanuel Macron Copy Share Image
“There is seed time and harvest, choose to sow at the right time so as to have a bountiful harvest.” — Jaachynma N.E. Agu Copy Share Image
Criminal cases receive the attention of the press. The cruel and disagreeable things of life are more apt to get the newspaper… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
I have been reading Stephen King since CARRIE and hope to read him for many years to come. — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
All the things people hate about touring, I'm excited for, because I've never done it before. I'm excited to see places I've… — Phoebe Bridgers Copy Share Image
I love being on stage if I'm not on a set. If I'm at home, I'm usually in my office editing or… — Dane Cook Copy Share Image
I'll wait to see what the film [The Lobster] is, but it's set in a contemporary world, in America, there are hospitals… — Colin Farrell Copy Share Image
“Reading is like therapy; the characters are the therapist, their world is their office, and the adventures are the sessions.” — Jordan Bowers Copy Share Image
Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars… — William Penn Copy Share Image
The harm that comes to souls from the lack of reading holy books makes me shudder... What power spiritual reading has to… — Pio of Pietrelcina Copy Share Image
I love to cook. I spend weekends reading cookbooks - it's really my relaxation. — Ali Larter Copy Share Image
The only end of writing is to enable readers better to enjoy life or better to endure it. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Just getting totally absorbed in that and therefore when I came back around to [Buckminster Fuller] and found that much of it… — Jonathon Keats Copy Share Image
Mind you, Mount Rushmore isn't exactly the Parthenon or the Sistine Chapel either. After the naïve daftness of the Crazy Horse monument,… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
Speech recognition is utterly crap for writing fiction. If you try reading a novel aloud you'll soon figure out why - written… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
“I, too, feel the need to reread the books I have already read," a third reader says, "but at every rereading I… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
As a cognitive neuroscientist and scholar of reading, I am particularly concerned with the plight of the reading brain as it encounters… — Maryanne Wolf Copy Share Image
“You know what it's like to *lose* yourself in a story. We have brother and sister *souls*.” — Mike Carey Copy Share Image
Nothing would please us more than to see our beloved children form the habit of reading the Gospels - not merely from… — Pope Pius X Copy Share Image
For my part, the good novel of character is the novel I can always pick up; but the good novel of incident… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
“The hero was the sort of character you could feel yourself falling in love with, no matter how much you tried to… — Heather James Copy Share Image
Many readers judge of the power of a book by the shock it gives their feelings - as some savage tribes determine… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
From Obama's book, "The Audacity of Hope:" "I am not willing to have the state deny American citizens a civil union that… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Librarians are hot. They have knowledge and power over their domain...It is no coincidence how many librarians are portrayed as having a… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
A book is not harmless merely because no one is consciously offended by it. — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
I've always liked reading books that contain funny lines or situations, and maybe because my work is known chiefly for its violence… — Donald Ray Pollock Copy Share Image
“when we are in the world of reading it helps us to think in the way we wish......” — Shebapmannil Copy Share Image
Melissa Joan Hart's reading is, by far, one of the most emotional, exceptional readings I've ever done. — Tyler Henry Copy Share Image
“As a reader you recognise that feeling when you're lost in a book? You know the one - when whatever's going on… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
Husband and I are preparing ourselves for the new Doctor by watching - well, mainly rewatching - Mr. Capaldi’s back catalogue, we’ve… — Jacqueline Rayner Copy Share Image
The thing about Tolkien, about The Lord of the Rings, is that it's perfect. It's this whole world, this whole process of… — Jo Walton Copy Share Image
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