Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world… — John Green Copy Share Image
After the writer's death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
I haven't read for pleasure in 35 years. I mean, I get a lot of pleasure from what I read... For me,… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
“Knowledge is not obtained through being absorbed in a book, it comes when you brush aside fantasies and sensuality, switching from the… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
You might learn as much about how to write by reading Shakespeare, Tolstoy, Wallace Stevens, Raymond Chandler, Saul Bellow, Paul Muldoon or… — David Denby Copy Share Image
“Euripides "questioned everything. He was a misanthrope who preferred books to men.” — Edith Hamilton Copy Share Image
Children need far more than basic skills in reading, writing, and math, as important as those might be. Children also need to… — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
I don't judge anyone of any stripe by what they read. Reading is always good for you. It's a positive act. — George Pelecanos Copy Share Image
“A story can always break into pieces while it sits inside a book on a shelf; and, decades after we have read… — Andre Dubus Copy Share Image
Turn off your radio. Put away your daily paper. Read one review of events a week and spend some time reading good… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
“I spent most of my free time reading. It was a great escape from reality” — Teresa Mummert Copy Share Image
How many times have you struggled with the interpretation of certain Biblical texts related to the time of Jesus' return because they… — Gary DeMar Copy Share Image
When I was young, I went to college, had a teacher who was, had been a student of Trilling's at Columbia, this… — Louis Menand Copy Share Image
I always use primary sources, in addition to reading biographies and other materials. — Nancy Horan Copy Share Image
My personal view is that reading has to be balanced. Obviously, there's a certain amount of reading that we have to do… — Emma Walton Hamilton Copy Share Image
I think that people who don't mind reading find the immersion and their ability to get into a deeper place with the… — Rick Remender Copy Share Image
We're able to use certain techniques to get people to behave in certain ways. We're able to use certain techniques to make… — Keith Barry Copy Share Image
Read a lot. Expect something big, something exalting or deepening from a book. No book is worth reading that isn't worth re-reading. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Don't get me wrong, I love watching episodes of my favorite shows on Hulu and reading the daily trash on PageSix, but… — Rachel Nichols Copy Share Image
No more Internet. No more social media, no more scrolling through litanies of dreams and nervous hopes and photographs of lunches, cries… — Emily St. John Mandel Copy Share Image
“Nor did I make any distinctions between great literature and any other kind. I just liked reading.” — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I don't want the words to be naked the way they are in faxes or in the computer. I want them to… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
He [Jesus] was the greatest human being who has ever lived. He was a moral genius. His ethical sense was unique. He… — Charles Templeton Copy Share Image
In the first few pages, Kundera discusses several abstract historical figures: Robespierre, Nietzsche, Hitler. For Eunice's sake, I wanted him to get… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
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