In a story you only had to wish, you only had to write it down and you could have the world...It seemed… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
Reading is learning, but applying is also learning and the more important kind of learning at that. Our chief method is to… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
She liked to sit on the front porch in the afternoons and read books she'd checked out from the library. Aside from… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
Interest in reading memoirs is universal. What has happened is that people are writing about more and more outrageous things. Our threshold… — Sara Nelson Copy Share Image
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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
I thought, maybe the difference between white folks and colored is just this matter of reading and writing. I made up my… — Mary McLeod Bethune Copy Share Image
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...by regularly reading business newspaper and magazines I am exposed to an enormous amount of material at the micro level.. I find… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
As soon as I started reading, I found myself drawn to fictional character's homes as much as I was to the characters… — Mary Kay Andrews Copy Share Image
No amount of misfortune will satisfy the man who is not satisfied with reading a hundred epigrams. — Martial Copy Share Image
Sabbath rest is more than mere abstention from physical work; and, therefore, must include worship and Scripture-reading. — Joseph Hertz Copy Share Image
My life as a working theorist began three months after this preliminary study and background reading, when Oscar gently nudged me toward… — Rudolph A. Marcus Copy Share Image
“When I was a child, books were everything. And so there is in me, always, a nostalgic yearning for the lost pleasure… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
Part of the appeal was that Medawar was not only a Nobel Laureate, but he seemed like a Nobel Laureate; he was… — Richard Dawkins 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
Why are we reading if not in hope that the writer will magnify and dramatize our days, will illuminate and inspire us… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
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I was reading Omar Khayyam, Kahlil Gibran, Rumi, L. Ron Hubbard, all sorts of philosophy. Bebop cats are like that. Curious. I… — Quincy Jones Copy Share Image
Brilliant. . . . Marriage Confidential is both laugh-out-loud funny and gasp-out-loud shocking, and nothing less than a Feminine Mystique for our… — Debby Applegate Copy Share Image
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