I was just a kid selling monster stories to the kids in the projects, complete with a dramatic reading, making the werewolf… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
My dad had this outlook: It doesn't matter what I want to read - reading was a good thing. So whatever I… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
I'm kind of a creature of the alt-weekly universe - my real education into higher culture was acquired in coffee shops, reading… — Charles D'Ambrosio Copy Share Image
I like big books and I cannot lie. You other readers can’t deny That when a kid walks in with The Name… — Jim C. Hines Copy Share Image
I got a call from Shoaib Mansoor, and he asked if I'd be interested in doing the music of 'Bol.' I said,… — Atif Aslam Copy Share Image
The "essence" of comics is fundamentally the weird process of reading pictures, not just looking at them. I see the black outlines… — Chris Ware Copy Share Image
Some of the parables that Matthew records and that Jesus delivered as part of his Olivet Discourse-such as the ten virgins and… — Eric D. Huntsman Copy Share Image
Remember how pissed you got when we had to do all that reading about the Rising back in sixth grade? I thought… — Mira Grant 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,… — Martin Amis (Author Copy Share Image
I'm absolutely removed from the world at such times...The hours go by without my knowing it. Sitting there I'm wandering in countries… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“The worst part of it has been, I think, the adverse effect on family life. It kills off family conversation. And it’s… — John Wayne Copy Share Image
“In its silence, a book is a challenge: it can't lull you with surging music or deafen you with screeching laugh tracks… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Nearly all bookish people are snobs, and especially the more enlightened among them. They are apt to assume that if a writer… — Arnold Bennett Copy Share Image
Sometimes when reading aloud to my husband, I'll start crying. It completely stuns me. As if the words in my body and… — Julianna Baggott Copy Share Image
I never need to find time to read. When people say to me, ‘Oh, yeah, I love reading. I would love to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In my own research, teaching and consulting experience I have to combine lessons from the field in a relatively inductive and open… — Yves Doz Copy Share Image
I miss that process of getting the script and reading it and working on it. Every actor has their own way of… — Pauly Shore Copy Share Image
Over the past fifty years or so, scientists have allowed the conventions of expression available to them to become entirely too confining,… — David Mermin Copy Share Image
“He says he knows someone isn't from the same race as he when that person looks at his library and asks, 'Have… — Jamie S. Rich Copy Share Image
“I refilled the wineglass and took it with me for a nice long bubble bath, where I settled in with Ambrose's guide… — Lee Goldberg Copy Share Image
Anne Pitkin's poems have such lyrical sweep, such a sensitive eye for the natural world as it touches the human, that reading… — Rosellen Brown Copy Share Image
“The first demand any work of art makes upon us is surrender. Look. Listen. Receive. Get yourself out of the way. (There… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Don’t let me get sappy on you, but when you get right down to it, every collection of letters is a magic… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
“Reading two pages apiece of seven books every night, eh? I was young. You bowed to yourself in the mirror, stepping forward… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
You learn so much with each book, but it's what you teach yourself by writing your own books and by reading good… — Maggie O'Farrell Copy Share Image
Too-broad questions, such as, "What's on your mind?" are apt to be answered "nothing" nearly one hundred percent of the time. Be… — Marge M. Kennedy Copy Share Image
An actress reading a part for the first time tries many ways to say the same line before she settles into the… — Stella Chess Copy Share Image
“In later years, Reading seems to have been regarded as a handy place to run down to, when matters were becoming unpleasant… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
Because most of the girls were still in mourning and all of them had lost their textbooks, even pencils and pens, Shaukat… — Greg Mortenson Copy Share Image
Being in front of an audience makes me feel alive. Being with friends makes me feel alive. I’ve done some crazy stuff… — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
If you feel . . . that well-read people are less likely to be evil, and a world full of people sitting… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
So much working, reading, thinking, living to do. A lifetime is not long enough. Nor youth to old age long enough. Immortality… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
He wanted nothing, for the time being, except to understand … Without advice, assistance or plan, he began reading an incongruous assortment… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“How the excitement comes upon me to tell it all! In the quest of writing, the heart can speed up with anticipation--as… — Sena Jeter Naslund Copy Share Image
Most of what I read is for reviewing purposes or related to something I want to write about. It's slightly utilitarian. I… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
I loved reading historical novels when I was young, but I definitely don't think I wrote one. When I read my book… — Danielle Dutton Copy Share Image
What meaning do our lives have if we cannot set aside at least one hour a day out of 24 for thinking… — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
Every time I do a movie, I'm reading the script, or if it's something I have coming up, I'm reading the script,… — Mark Wahlberg Copy Share Image
I didn't really want to be an actor when I was growing up - I wanted to be whatever I was reading… — Jason Sudeikis Copy Share Image
“Thrillers, like all genre fiction, remain for the most part “beneath.” There is a feeling in literature, more than any other art… — Will Lavender Copy Share Image
