Life is full of wonderful passions that come and go over the years, but the only one that will never let you… — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
Reading Orwell's 'Road to Wigan Pier'. I think every policy person should read it. Prescient, gnarly, ugly, and moving. — Alison Pill Copy Share Image
I am never lonely when I am reading the Bible. Nothing dissolves loneliness like a session with God's Word. — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
Almost as soon as I started reading 'Erasure,' I wanted to adapt it. — Cord Jefferson Copy Share Image
I don't want to say no book is ever worth reading, but I actually do believe something pretty close to that. — Sam Bankman-Fried Copy Share Image
People want to find out what happens to the characters, and want to keep reading, and turning the pages. — Jerry B. Jenkins Copy Share Image
I don't know how it is with other writers, but most of the time when I finish [reading] a story or novel,… — F. Paul Wilson Copy Share Image
People don't like to read text on computer screens (and reading a lot of text on iPod screens gets very tiring very… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
I grew up in South Africa and I would look at maps and we were at the bottom of the world. There… — Charlize Theron Copy Share Image
If you want to get rich from writing, write the sort of thing that's read by persons who move their lips when… — Don Marquis Copy Share Image
You are holding in your hands not only a book of readings and instruction for the journey, but one monastic's heart of… — Paula D'Arcy Copy Share Image
I get my inspiration from looking at the world and paying attention to people and just looking closely. Also from reading. I… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
[Readers] who like facts will be better off with a straight history that spares them all the forelock tugging and teacup tinkling. — Rhoda Koenig Copy Share Image
One of the problems, hanging out with me, is that I can turn any topic into a toxic horror story. I've lost… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
I did a lot of reading of first person accounts from Koreans and combatants and aid workers. And I spoke to relatives.… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
It was the last generation of writers [ the Cheers] that had grown up reading books instead of watching TV. So you… — John Ratzenberger Copy Share Image
Yet Irina had once tucked away, she wasn't sure when or why, that happiness is almost definitionally a condition of which you… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
I guess I've done a lot of different kinds of performing at various times - opera singing, poetry reading, not least high… — Garth Greenwell Copy Share Image
When you get inside a literary novel you feel that the author, more often than not, just doesn't know enough about things.… — Peter York Copy Share Image
Only in Southern California do camping grounds actually have wifi, so I was sitting in my tent and I started reading it… — Remi Aubuchon Copy Share Image
“You must know that feeling when it's raining outside and the heating's on and you lose yourself, utterly, in a book. You… — Anthony Horowitz Copy Share Image
Until I was a junior in high school, I was a "boy scientist" type and expected to go into chemistry. Then I… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
Books afford the surest relief in the most melancholy moments. — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Copy Share Image