“I love the writers of my thousand books. It pleases me to think how astonished old Homer, whoever he was, would be… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
I began to ask two questions while I was reading a book that excited me: not only what was going to happen… — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
What an artist does, is fail. Any reading of the literature, (I mean the literature of artistic creation), however summary, will persuade… — Donald Barthelme Copy Share Image
I remember him reading 'Sleeping Beauty,' and he would play the score by Tchaikovsky as he read it. We'd also read 'Winnie… — Jennifer Grant Copy Share Image
My rule has been, so far as I could have any rule (I could have no cast-iron rule) - my rule has… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Ezra clapped his hands. "all right," he said. "In addition to the books we're reading as a class, I want to do… — Sara Shepard Copy Share Image
Corliss wondered what happens to a book that sits unread on a library shelf for thirty years. Can a book rightfully be… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
“What is literature but the expression of moods by the vehicle of symbol and incident? And are there not moods which need… — W.B. Yeats Copy Share Image
Books are what you step on to take you to a higher shelf. The higher your stack of books, the higher the… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
I'm learning more and more from every reading that I do. When people come through they're not talking about heaven or hell,… — Tyler Henry Copy Share Image
Things such as 'Harry Potter', all I can do is shape my character, seek the director's approval on that, and basically take… — Warwick Davis Copy Share Image
I spent almost two years working on this book ['March'] before we ever had a publisher, before we ever had a title.… — Andrew Aydin Copy Share Image
In the classics section, she had picked up a copy of The Magic Mountain and recalled the summer between her junior and… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
Let us assume that entertainment is the sole end of reading; even so I think you would hold that no mental employment… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
I was always looking for the most dramatic emphasis. One example would be the letter writing, or the reading of the letters.… — Neil LaBute Copy Share Image
Any story that gets us thinking, and particularly young people, thinking why? Whether it's as a result of reading the book, or… — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
Robert Frost says in a piece of homely doggerel that he has hoped wisdom could be not only Attic but Laconic, Boeotian… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
The character I created, 'Commissario Brunetti,' who appears in all my books, shares similar reading, artistic and musical tastes with me. Subconsciously,… — Donna Leon Copy Share Image
I do that a lot of authors still do not do is allow people to write directly to me. I get about… — Steven Tyler Copy Share Image
Writing is an expression of the writer's own peculiar personality, could not help being so. Yet in reading great works one feels… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
One of the things that I love when I go to a film or when I'm reading some book or whatever, is… — Annette Bening Copy Share Image
Choose to view life through God's eyes. This will not be easy because it doesn't come naturally to us. We cannot do… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I sold my first short story while I was home on maternity leave, then began working on novels. Since I was reading… — Tess Gerritsen Copy Share Image
The publishers and others should quit worrying about losing customers to TV. The guy who can sit through a trio of deodorant… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
Whenever summer rolls around I begin to realize that I'm a complete and utter book snob. In relation to reading, I have… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
“I look around and see that many — not all, but many — problems we've got could be solved if our culture… — Camilo Gomes Jr Copy Share Image
“When we read, we decide when, where, how long, and about what. One of the few places on earth that it is… — Andrew Clements Copy Share Image
Books of natural history make the most cheerful winter reading. I read in Audubon with a thrill of delight, when the snow… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“We want splendid books, books that immerse us in the splendor of reality and keep us there; books that prove to us… — Laurence Cossé Copy Share Image
I was an altar boy and heard the Bible being read out repeatedly. The stories have stayed with me, although they're completely… — Chris Ofili Copy Share Image
I have heard Shree Rajneesh and have been inspired by his talks. His works are sublimne and seek to liberate the soul… — V. R. Krishna Iyer Copy Share Image
At any rate, nothing was more characteristic of him [Walter Benjamin] in the thirties than the little notebooks with black covers which… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Sometimes I do readings and people can’t stop laughing, but I’m reading about pretty tragic things. I think Soviet humor is a… — Alina Bronsky Copy Share Image
I regarded as quite useless the reading of large treatises of pure analysis: too large a number of methods pass at once… — Joseph-Louis Lagrange Copy Share Image
Growing up, I had always been an avid bookworm and a straight-A student. I approached my cancer the same way I approached… — Suleika Jaouad Copy Share Image
Reading their letters and the First Amendment of the US Constitution, I infer that this nation's founders noted that religions have been… — Bill Nye Copy Share Image
By now, it is probably very late at night, and you have stayed up to read this book when you should have… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
After the German occupation of Holland in May 1940, the last two dark years of the war I spent hiding indoors from… — Nicolaas Bloembergen Copy Share Image
The serious reader in the age of technology is a rebel by definition: a protester without a placard, a Luddite without hammer… — Eric Burns Copy Share Image
A society person who is enthusiastic about modern painting or Truman Capote is already half a traitor to his class. It is… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
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