Mom's a writer, so I grew up reading scripts and I have a real respect for them and I know how much… — Naomie Harris Copy Share Image
In European and American society, many pundits started to lament the death of literature; looking at youth who were getting more and… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
In many cases, ignorance is a good thing : the mind retains its freedom of investigation and does not stray along roads… — Jean-Henri Fabre Copy Share Image
Deep reading refers to a whole continuum of processes that include some of the most important things about thinking and how we… — Maryanne Wolf Copy Share Image
“Wuthering Heights, however it may appear in retrospect, demands a reading of the utmost intensity, the feeling present in the writing seems… — Ian Gregor Copy Share Image
“I was in Nashville, Tennessee last year. After the show I went to a Waffle House. I'm not proud of it, I… — Bill Hicks Copy Share Image
I love my friends and family, but I also love it when they can't find me and I can spend all day… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
A reader does not suddenly comprehend what is being read or studied, in a snap, miraculously. Comprehension needs to be worked forged,… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
There's something immediate about the experience of reading a poem - whether it's the music or some other element of it -… — Kevin Powers Copy Share Image
The major accomplishment of analyzing illiteracy so far has been the listing of symptoms: the decrease in functional literacy; a general degradation… — Mihai Nadin Copy Share Image
It's really hard to teach me anything. I can't read music. I never learned how to read music. I read books about… — Don McLean Copy Share Image
“I had to go back and reread the page a few times. As I read it, I kept drifting out of the… — Patton Oswalt Copy Share Image
I'm not a big crime reader, but I'm reading Michael Connelly's 'The Reversal.' I'm going back to his novels. I'm also reading… — Jo Nesbo Copy Share Image
In the middle of the dream I said to myself 'press pause' and in the dream I said I'm going to write… — David Dayan Fisher Copy Share Image
As a Jew reading about Jesus, I thought, 'He's a pretty good guy.' It's the same conclusion Monty Python drew in 'Life… — David Javerbaum Copy Share Image
I read "Women Heroes of World War I" and was absolutely astonished. When we imagine women serving in the First World War,… — Kate Quinn Copy Share Image
It's a lazy Saturday afternoon, there's a couple lying naked in bed reading Encyclopediea Brittannica to each other, and arguing about whether… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“Look- here's a table covered with red cloth. On it is a cage the size of a small fish aquarium. In the… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I loved reading Grimm's fairy tales and Hans Christian Andersen, and I loved to dream about other worlds and other lives. Maybe… — Lauren Bacall Copy Share Image
The first class of readers may be compared to an hour-glass, their reading being as the sand; it runs in and runs… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
It was not a choice of writing or not writing. It was a choice of loving my life or not loving my… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
I love Jane [Krakowski]. Jane's been a dear friend for maybe a dozen years. We've worked together on many shows and concerts… — Cheyenne Jackson Copy Share Image
The Christians think I am making a mistake by not trying the New Testament and meeting Jesus. The Jews tend to think… — David Plotz Copy Share Image
I think instead writers and publishers and readers need to go to the places where people are, and make the argument that… — John Green Copy Share Image
Death," said Akiva. His life was leaving him fast now that he no longer held his wound. His eyes just wanted to… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
“I just got a rather nasty shock. In looking for something or other I came across the fact that one of my… — Edward Gorey Copy Share Image
For we let our young men and women go out unarmed in a day when armor was never so necessary. By teaching… — Dorothy L. Sayers 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
The menu should be part of the entertainment, part of the dining experience. It's kind of like reading the 'Playbill' when you… — Joe Bastianich Copy Share Image
I do believe that one's writing life needs to be kept separate from Po-Biz. Personally, I deal with this by not attending… — Cate Marvin Copy Share Image
When we wrote that scene about the Sleepy Kittens where he's reading the storybook to the kids, it's like we've had to… — Cinco Paul Copy Share Image
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Two kinds of reading can be distinguished. I call them reading like a reader and reading like a writer ... when you… — Frank Smith Copy Share Image
“In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own. I learned who I was and who I… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
IMPORTANT Book reading is a solitary and sedentary pursuit, and those who do are cautioned that a book should be used as… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
After reading ... accounts ... of minor accidents of light, it is little wonder that the average man would far rather watch… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
“If everyone could learn how to read books properly and how to use them as effective tools for daily living, the facilities… — Francis Beauchesne Thornton Copy Share Image
What's given, in fact, always depends on the person or thing it's given to. A minor incident in the street brings the… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
I read, I think, I play, I work. And all that thinkingand playing and reading comes into my art. I couldn't really… — Harvey Keitel Copy Share Image
Reading Bicycling beyond the Divide was the best vacation I took all year-in a year I traveled to Mexico, France, and Italy.… — Jesse Lee Kercheval Copy Share Image
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