I like to tell kids that I started thinking about stories when I first started reading stuff like Dr. Seuss and 'Go,… — Jon Scieszka Copy Share Image
For me I was always a smart nerdy kid. I wasn't the smartest and I wasn't the nerdiest, but I was a… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
The character that lasts is an ordinary guy with some extraordinary qualities. — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
People flock in, nevertheless, in search of answers to those questions only librarians are considered to be able to answer, such as… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I've been reading ghost stories ever since I could read. I'm immensely curious about ghosts and UFOs and all that stuff, but… — Barbara Mertz Copy Share Image
“He always thinks because I'm reading, I'm not doing anything. There is no greater plague to an introvert than the extroverted.” — Pierce Brown Copy Share Image
“I went on writing reviews for the newspaper, and critical articles crying out for a different approach to culture, as even the… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
I'm actually reading 'World War Z' again! It's incredibly realistic and it's written as an oral history through interviews with different characters.… — Nathan Fillion Copy Share Image
As long as I'm dealing in honesty, I may as well admit that I have been more influenced (as a person) by… — N.D. Wilson Copy Share Image
Reading yields a wish to write, I think, except if the reading is dull and uninspiring. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
America is a bottom-up society, where new trends and ideas begin in cities and local communities...My colleagues and I have studied this… — John Naisbitt Copy Share Image
“He believes that if talent is demanded of a literary publisher or a writer, it must also be demanded of a reader.… — Enrique Vila-Matas Copy Share Image
I had a vast interest in ghosts and stuff and cryptozoology and every topic that was not normal... if you're reading that… — Aleister Black Copy Share Image
If I'm not playing basketball, I'm reading or thinking of stories I can create. — Robin Lopez Copy Share Image
Had the followers of Jesus remained an obscure Jewish sect, most of you would not have learned to read, and the rest… — Rodney Stark Copy Share Image
Making verses is almost as common as taking snuff, and God can tell what miserable stuff people carry about in their pockets,… — Mary Wortley Montagu Copy Share Image
Reading is a creative activity. You have to visualize the characters, you have to hear what the voices sound like. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
From the time I was a little boy I found myself reading history when I had a choice. I read a lot… — Donald Kagan Copy Share Image
I read, I think, I play, I work. And all that thinkingand playing and reading comes into my art. I couldn't really… — Harvey Keitel Copy Share Image
At 14, I started reading popular scripts, wanted to learn Telugu, read books and improve my language. Then I got married at 15. — Sowcar Janaki Copy Share Image
“If we neglect Scripture in order to read only other books, we not only cut ourselves from the divine umbilical cord that… — Tony Reinke Copy Share Image
“It is not all books that are as dull as their readers. There are probably words addressed to our condition exactly, which,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
