In the early 1990s, my relatives in Patna, even those who had no interest in reading or writing, wanted Parker fountain pens. — Amitava Kumar Copy Share Image
I remember reading 'Disturbia,' one of the first scripts I ever got, and I go 'Pfft, who wants to make a movie… — Alex Pettyfer Copy Share Image
The readings are at once instant in their appeal, and lingering in their impact. — Andrew Motion Copy Share Image
Might not hurt you to pick up a book, just as an experiment." Whatever. I looked up the definition for 'nerd' in… — Brandon Mull Copy Share Image
All of a sudden I got a vision of Guernica - Pablo Picasso's painting, which is one of my all-time favorite paintings… — Beth Grant Copy Share Image
We properly judge a critic's virtue not by his freedom from error but by the nature of the mistakes he does make,… — Lionel Trilling Copy Share Image
“Our own lives are filled with experiences and beliefs that are peculiar to our culture, and would seem bizarre to anyone outside… — Darren Oldridge Copy Share Image
The worst that can be said about pornography is that it leads not to anti-social acts but to the reading of more… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Attention spans are changing. It's very noticeable. I am very aware that the kind of books I read in my childhood kids… — Cressida Cowell Copy Share Image
When you get pregnant, you start reading pregnancy books. Everything has been pretty textbook. It's amazing how they can say , 'This… — Anna Silk Copy Share Image
Rebecca Mead's My Life in Middlemarch is a wise, humane, and delightful study of what some regard as the best novel in… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
Spoilers are cowardly. They're just people who want to anesthetize themselves against the tension and the experience that the director and the… — Simon Pegg Copy Share Image
My mother read secondarily for information; she sank as a hedonist into novels. She read Dickens in the spirit in which she… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
“Daydreaming does not enjoy tremendous prestige in our culture, which tends to regard it as unproductive thought. Writers perhaps appreciate its importance… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“I find myself anticipating a new kind of storyteller, one who is half hacker, half bard.” — Janet H. Murray Copy Share Image
“But a man may then imagine in your work what he pleases, what you never meant!" Not what he pleases, but what… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
“Potential literature is what we might call language in the hands of a crafty reader, the way potential music is sound to… — Daniel Levin Becker Copy Share Image
I believe that reading and writing are the most nourishing forms of meditation anyone has so far found. By reading the writings… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
That's one of the many things about having the bookstore that I adore. I can walk into the store and say to… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
I turned down the first script offered to me, and the second. I lay on my back one day under an umbrella,… — Conrad Veidt Copy Share Image
There are quite a number of people in the reading-room; but one is not aware of them. They are inside the books.… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Read as much as you possibly can. Nothing will help you as much as reading and you'll go through a phase where… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
“I hadn't had a chance to read an entire novel in weeks. Whatever the others might say about politics, civil war, and… — Alyxandra Harvey Copy Share Image
The highest earthly enjoyments are but a shadow of the joy I find in reading God's Word. — Lady Jane Grey Copy Share Image
As hardly anything can accidentally touch the soft clay without stamping its mark on it, so hardly any reading can interest a… — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
