Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen and expand our sense of life: they feed the soul. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Culture means, I think, that you have widened your experience enough through reading and through being a little bit thoughtful about these… — Joseph Epstein Copy Share Image
Reading was a joy, a desperately needed escape -- I didn't read to learn, I was reading to read. — Christian Bauman Copy Share Image
It is a relief to read some true book, wherein all are equally dead,--equally alive. I think the best parts of Shakespeare… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Any time women come together with a collective intention, it's a powerful thing. Whether it's sitting down making a quilt, in a… — Phylicia Rashad Copy Share Image
In 1962 and 1963, there were two abominable decisions out of the Supreme Court, and that was taking prayer out of school,… — Rafael Cruz Copy Share Image
“Living is worth the effort if only because without life we could not read or imagine stories.” — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
Reading 'Youth in Revolt' might have ruined my career because suddenly I wanted to abandon all the emotional truth of something and… — Rob Thomas Copy Share Image
“One of the ironies of college is that the impossibility of reading your way out of the modern predicament is something you… — Joshua Rothman Copy Share Image
“But Rosine had read books . . . so many books ... Her over-excited memory was filling her mind with terrifying images… — Maurice Renard Copy Share Image
“Children are capable, of course, of literary belief , when the story-maker's art is good enough to produce it. That state of… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
We set up a beta site, a test site, with movie, music and book reviews. If you're reading them and you want… — Jay Chiat Copy Share Image
“By the time we'd moved into that rambling, lopsided wooden house, I'd already fallen in love with reading. I think my love… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency - the belief that the here… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
“We like to take credit when we get a new idea, as if we originated the idea in our brain, but what… — Chris Prentiss Copy Share Image
I reckon if I can't spend the day sleeping, the next best thing is to spend it reading and drinking. — Pete McCarthy Copy Share Image
If you want to have a creative culture, you can't get it by reading books. You get it by example. — Barbara Corcoran Copy Share Image
It's a really common trap to want your life to live up to some standard that you believe in, and then you… — Will Sheff Copy Share Image
“But there is another possible attitude towards the records of the past, and I have never been able to understand why it… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“You are not permitted to live and die as a non-entity because you have encountered the greatness that is associated with Christ.” — Jaachynma N.E. Agu Copy Share Image
When you feel loss, no motivation and no power, you should keep calm and reading, or reading to keep calm to renew… — Sara Zhou Copy Share Image
Some difficulty is warranted and other difficulty I think is gratuitous. And I think I can tell the difference. There are certainly… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
