“The greatest compliments I’ve ever received were complaints from readers that I made them stay up all night reading.” — H.E. Fairbanks Copy Share Image
“I am shocked to find that some people think a 2 star 'I liked it' rating is a bad rating. What? I… — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
“Your life will be the result of who and what you’ve been reading and the people you know.” — Rui Zhi Dong Copy Share Image
“Sometimes people who look different from you are scary. Maybe they are ugly. Maybe they are loud. Maybe they are big. Maybe… — Jeff Hutchins Copy Share Image
But if you have a book that needs urgent reading,' she said, 'then Hakim is your man. — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
The truth is that neither then nor at any former time, since I had attained my maturity in Age, Reading and reflection… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Criticism starts - it has to start - with a real passion for reading. It can come in adolescence, even in your… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
I like to take a long time over breakfast, and I can't bear to talk. If a guest is a breakfast talker… — Julian Fellowes Copy Share Image
“I enjoyed reading when I was a boy, but these days, I read all the time and it has rather taken the… — Laura Lee Guhrke Copy Share Image
Telephones in 2020 will be archaic, relics of a bygone era-like transistor radios are today. Telephony, which will be entirely IP-based by… — Josh Quittner Copy Share Image
I like stories about people. I like things that are human and different. I want to be as engaged in my work… — Julianne Moore Copy Share Image
“Even if readers claim that they 'take it all with a grain of salt', they do not really. They yearn to believe,… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
I've never known any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Richer than I you can never be, I had a mother who read to me. — Strickland Gillilan Copy Share Image
“I don't believe in writer's block. Who can function working seven days a week at at job. It's the same with writing.… — Lillian R. Melendez Copy Share Image
Find something that thrills you, and when you finish reading it for enjoyment, read it again line by line, paragraph by paragraph… — W. P. Kinsella Copy Share Image
[People who have left the ISIS] say that there comes a moment when the inconsistencies and apparent hypocrisies of their sheikh lets… — Rukmini Maria Callimachi Copy Share Image
Perhaps fiction has, for me, served a similar purpose--what is a narrative arc if not the imposition of order on disparate events?--and… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
At 17, I went to Stanford University to study engineering. My time was occupied with the required reading and the extracurricular duties… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
We don't play bridge, golf or tennis. And I guess just about the only thing I'm interested in is reading about, talking… — Ken Berry Copy Share Image
“Lots of women read fiction. Most men don't. Women read fiction written by women and by men. Most men don't. If a… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
For a long time, I worked in film and theater, but reading started when I was much younger. I was always a… — Lisa Lucas Copy Share Image