In fighting a bull you're always aware of a paradox concerning your perceptions of the bull. On the one hand it's your… — Bette Ford Copy Share Image
I think parents should know what their children are reading, and if they truly object, they should tell their kids why, rather… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
I find that the Amazon comments often are exceptionally shrewd and insightful, so I'm not going to diss them. But you don't… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
Because reading is one of the joys of life, and once you begin, you can't stop, and you've got so many stories… — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
Let us read with method, and propose to ourselves an end to which our studies may point. The use of reading is… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“One of the less apparent but most profound consequences of domestic electric lighting was the encouragement of reading at home. Increased reading… — David E. Kyvig Copy Share Image
We read deeply for varied reasons, most of them familiar: that we cannot know enough people profoundly enough; that we need to… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
Reading Don Quixote can be compared to an indefinite visit from your most impossible senior relative, with all his pranks, dirty habits,… — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
Grasp the opportunity with both hands to feel really very special as an Indian reading these quotes on the Indian Independence Day.… — Hu Shih Copy Share Image
“Bring on the controversy. I write real life. It's harsh and sometimes gritty, but it's real. Why should we tip toe around… — Shandy L. Kurth Copy Share Image
“Early on, for better or worse, I chose whose child I wanted to be: the child of the novel. Almost everything else… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
“Books were cities I'd never visited, filled with pillars of great thoughts and streets of phrases, mazes of abstruse sentence structures and… — Jung-Myung Lee Copy Share Image
Now, academics are not always the easiest people to talk to, and the scholarly papers aren't always the easiest papers to read,… — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
“Multa legas facito, perlectis neglege multa: Nan miranda canunt, sed non credenda poetae.” — Dionysius Cato Copy Share Image
It is no more necessary that a man should remember the different dinners and suppers which have made him healthy, than the… — Sydney Smith Copy Share Image
Anatole France frankly advised, "When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it." Yes,… — Gary Saul Morson Copy Share Image
When you're reading a novel, I think the reason you care about how any given plot turns out is that you take… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
We have not read an author till we have seen his object, whatever it may be, as he saw it. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
My moms is strictly Christian but once I got knowledge of self and started reading she used to love when I would… — Rakim Copy Share Image
Personally, I like reading adventures which really have happened to people, because they show what kind of things might happen to oneself,… — Robert Baden-Powell Copy Share Image
Try to find the real tense of the report you are reading: Was it done, is it being done, or is something… — Amrom Harry Katz Copy Share Image
“It was the fangirl code for every book geek: read, chat, squeal. Re-read, chat, and squeal again, until it’s all over and… — Rachael Wade Copy Share Image
“In the meantime, there is not an hour to lose. I am about to visit the public library.” — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
There are a lot of college writing textbooks that will include essays and short stories, and after reading the story or essay,… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
Reading is a lot like eating for me: If I try to read a book I'm not hungry for, I won't enjoy… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
I read everywhere. It's like a bodily function. I don't need quiet. I write and read with the TV on. I follow… — Chris Abani 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
As an ethnic female in wrestling, there will be people reading my words and I want to set an example. I did… — Gail Kim Copy Share Image
Here's my library, where I don't do a lot of reading but mostly play Angry Birds on the computer. — J. Lynn Copy Share Image
I don't know what people should be reading. Only you know what you should be reading. — Lorin Stein 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
“Oh, maybe a little treasure for the more rabid Incunks, the collectors and the academics who maintained their positions in large part… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“In the first place I spent most of my time at home, reading. I tried to stifle all that was continually seething… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky 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
Cambridge was a joy. Tediously. People reading books in a posh place. It was my fantasy. I loved it. I miss it… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
I began reading science fiction before I was 12 and started writing science fiction around the same time. — Octavia Butler Copy Share Image
What the war did was give me the opportunity of three years of continuous reading, and it was in the course of… — Douglass North Copy Share Image
