Ruth Montgomery had a book I was reading called Aliens Among Us. She was an automatic writer. She used to go into… — Sammy Hagar Copy Share Image
As a writer, I need an enormous amount of time alone. Writing is 90 percent procrastination: reading magazines, eating cereal out of… — Paul Rudnick Copy Share Image
It never seems to occur to anyone that each reader is different, and that even those who might be said to resemble… — John Ashbery Copy Share Image
... I soon found an opportunity to be introduced to a famous professor Johann Bernoulli. ... True, he was very busy and… — Leonhard Euler Copy Share Image
God will not let me get the blessing without asking. Today I am setting my face to fast and pray for enlightenment… — Bonar Law Copy Share Image
[About reading Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, age 14, in the back seat of his parents' sedan. I almost threw up. I got… — Carl Safina Copy Share Image
I am not fully informed of the practices at Harvard, but there is one from which we shall certainly vary, although it… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“One of the speed reading techniques: Developing the skill of reading and researching by reading under the pressure of time, which means… — Maryam Abdullah Alnaymi Copy Share Image
Over the past year I'vediscovered if you keep on giving and giving, you end up losing yourself. I think that learning to… — Brittany Murphy Copy Share Image
In all things that you find in the Holy Scriptures, seek out the purpose of the words, that you may enter into… — Isaac of Nineveh Copy Share Image
Does housekeeping interest you at all? I think it really ought to be just as good as writing and I never see… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“How ... how fragile situations are. But not tenuous. Delicate, but not flimsy, not indulgent. Delicate, that's why they keep breaking, they… — William Gaddis Copy Share Image
In 1970 the top three skills required by the Fortune 500 were the three Rs: reading, writing, and arithmetic. In 1999 the… — Linda Darling-Hammond Copy Share Image
Your job, your invitation from the Universe, is to give people back to themselves. You can do this every day, in a… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
“...but she wrote out some extra words on a piece of paper so Rain could practice reading. "Is this a magic spell?"… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
“Thanks for being the kind of person who likes to pick up a book. That's a genuinely great thing. I met a… — Max Barry Copy Share Image
I remember my fourth grade teacher reading 'Charlotte's Web' and 'Stuart Little' to us - both, of course, by E. B. White.… — Louis Sachar 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
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
“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
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 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
