“From the cave to the skyscraper, from the club to weapons of mass destruction, from the tautological life of the tribe to… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
Poetry springs directly from our primal need and capacity for communication[Poetry] mobilizes such a concentration of devices, such an intensification of language… — Sven Birkerts Copy Share Image
Travel stories teach geography; insect stories lead the child into natural science; and so on. The teacher, in short, can use reading… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
“For me, reading is so much more. Books teach you how other people think, and what they're feeling, and how they change… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Once I get on something, once I have something that I'm working on, then I become very obsessive. In a good way.… — Annette Bening Copy Share Image
Since I hold no judgments against my characters, no matter how heinous they might seem, I present them as real people with… — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
I quit flying myself last year and that was difficult for me because I enjoy it as much as playing golf. It… — Arnold Palmer Copy Share Image
“A man should begin with his own times. He should become acquainted first of all with the world in which he is… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
First off, from reading the script and knowing that I was going to be apart of it, I'm a huge 'Wizard of… — Kathleen Robertson Copy Share Image
I envy neither the heart nor the head of any legislator who has been born to an inheritance of privileges, who has… — Frances Harper Copy Share Image
My wife, the actress Megan Mullally, was an English major at Northwestern University and loves fiction. Like so many things in my… — Nick Offerman Copy Share Image
It is almost impossible to open a newspaper without reading something about the London housing market. House prices are rising at such… — David Lammy Copy Share Image
“The girl whose table I occupied was reading a book but I couldn’t help but notice that all this time, she was… — Nico J. Genes Copy Share Image
“However readers make a book theirs, the end is that book and reader become one. The world that is a book is… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
I think, oh my god, kids are reading, and they care about a book enough to come over and talk to me… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
Even on the iPad or the Kindle, when reading a book, you're rewarded for pressing a button - it's almost as if… — Art Spiegelman Copy Share Image
I've worked with Emily Skinner and I've seen Linda Balgord's work. I saw Harvey Keitel at the call-backs. But generally I don't… — Max von Essen Copy Share Image
“Mortimer!" Orpheus produced a derisive smile, although with some difficulty. "Is your head buried so deep in your wine jug that you… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
“His chief form of entertainment was reading. The last moments he was in a cabin were usually spent scanning bookshelves and nightstands.… — Michael Finkel Copy Share Image
Books are totally useless unless you take their advice. If you just keep reading them, thinking "that's so insightful! that changes everything,"… — Aaron Swartz Copy Share Image
I didn't want to teach my kid how to read, so I used to read to him at night and close the… — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
“If you will read and listen, you will admit a multiplicity of voices and points of view, consider them with some humility,… — Rick Gekoski Copy Share Image
“Appalling things can happen to children. And even a happy childhood is filled with sadnesses. Is there any other period in your… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
“Emerson said that a library is a magic chamber in which there are many enchanted spirits. They wake when we call them.… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
In a world of intrusive technology, we must engage in a kind of struggle if we wish to sustain moments of solitude.… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
If you think reading a book is hard, you should try writing one. Because it's even harder. It's still not as hard… — Erik Wolpaw Copy Share Image
Being an informed voter means, at the very least, researching recommendations and endorsements from more than one source and reading both the… — Jackie Fuchs Copy Share Image
There lots of other kids playing in streets around this country today who are going to be dead tomorrow, and the next… — Ted Bundy Copy Share Image
You work with every actor differently. It's like if you're a mother, if you have children, some children need more discipline. Other… — Rob Reiner Copy Share Image
To read fiction means to play a game by which we give sense to the immensity of things that happened, are happening,… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
With theatre, you can interpret the most complex play on stage for it have meaning to an audience because you're dealing in… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
Beyond the formative effects of reading on the individuals composing society, the fact that they have read the same books gives them… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As I started reading about it, I saw that at the beginning of the 19th century, outside of New England - which… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
Are you reading?" I say. It's not that I don't think Finn can read or anything, but it's just - well, not… — Elizabeth Scott Copy Share Image
A capacity, and taste, for reading, gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. It is the key, or one… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
If your memory was OK you could descend upon on a bookshop – a big enough one so that the staff wouldn’t… — Francis Spufford Copy Share Image
My work on what is called 'deep reading' explores the range of linguistic, cognitive, and affective processes that underlie not only the… — Maryanne Wolf Copy Share Image
“Every writer is first a member of a community of readers, and the deepest purpose of reading and writing fiction is to… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
“When I was young I studied in the west suburb, with the birds of the forest as my only neighbours. I would… — Wang Chieh Copy Share Image
“The great writers have always been great readers, but that does not mean that they read all the books that, in their… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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