I really didn't know much about theater. After I signed on, I started reading a lot of Sam Shepard plays just to… — Taissa Farmiga Copy Share Image
I consider myself a perpetual student. You seek and learn every day: from an experiment in the lab, from reading a scientific… — Anthony Fauci Copy Share Image
“This book is a treasure; I did not suspect it would be so good when I picked it up, but now I… — Laura Nowlin Copy Share Image
I wasn't inspired so much by a person as by reading many good books. I loved to write and I wondered if… — Peg Kehret Copy Share Image
Nothing contributes to the entertainment of the reader more, than the change of times and the vicissitudes of fortune. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Without reading, we are all without light in the dark, without fire in the cold. — Tamora Pierce Copy Share Image
It's pathetic, but I don't really remember my first time reading 'The Great Gatsby.' I must have read it in high school.… — Susan Choi Copy Share Image
I think psychologically [Margaret Thatcher] is really worth studying. I am reading Charles Moore's biography of her, and he has gotten us… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“Why wait for the movie tomorrow, when you can read the book today!” — Carmela Dutra 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
“We shouldn’t ask if life has a meaning, we should ask to whom life has what kinds of meanings” — S.E. SEVER Copy Share Image
“A literary expert friend once told me that the way to teach your child to love and respect reading is not to… — Karen Karbo Copy Share Image
The advice of a scholar, whose piles of learning were set on fire by imagination, is never to be forgotten. Proportion an… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
If you ever go to a music session, you'll notice that the musicians can sit down and start playing right away, and… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
Reading is a majority skill but a minority art. Yet nothing can replace the exact, complicated, subtle communion between absent author and… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“I'm only happy when I forget to exist. When just my eyes or my ears or my skin exist.” — John Fowles Copy Share Image
Despite the enormous quantity of books, how few people read! And if one reads profitably, one would realize how much stupid stuff… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
I don't write anything off without reading a script, and if it's a good one, I'll consider it, whether it's for $20… — Martin Freeman Copy Share Image
I want people to read good work. If I see someone reading a book by Lorrie Moore or Jennifer Egan, I'm psyched.… — Daniel Alarcon Copy Share Image
Most of the time what I am reading is leadership books, books on the mind and a lot of deep stuff about… — Tobias Harris Copy Share Image
My problem is that while other people are reading fifty books I'm reading one book fifty times. I only stop when at… — Helene Hanff Copy Share Image