I teach for the Book Trust, which promotes reading and writing with children. — Toby Jones Copy Share Image
It is possible that the malice of writers has been overrated (by myself among others). Reading their ruminations on their craft, one… — Wilfrid Sheed Copy Share Image
It would have been easier to have a male protagonist, but I didn't want people to assume that Nikki Hill was me… — Christopher Darden Copy Share Image
“I know what loves are trembling into fire; how jealousy shoots its green flashes hither and thither; how intricately love crosses love;… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
In my reading and in my studies I always tried to achieve a harmony between faith, reason, and the heart. These are… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
You can draw a penguin on a toilet reading The New York Times and it's adorable, but try doing it with an… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
I think my work is like a spiral: you keep coming back on yourself, but you're at a different place. It's like… — Cornelia Parker Copy Share Image
The mind, relaxing into needful sport, Should turn to writers of an abler sort, Whose wit well managed, and whose classic style,… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
You all would be really shocked, if you were dropped back down into when I went to college, by the narrowness of… — William Kristol Copy Share Image
I think too much is known about me already. I think biographical information can get in the way of the reading experience.… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
I remember once asking Grandma about a book she was reading, a biography of Abraham Lincoln, and how she answered me: this… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
It's a wonderful experience to be reading a story and think you've got things all figured out, and then suddenly, it all… — Fiona Barton Copy Share Image
A felon could plead "benefit of clergy" and be saved by [reading aloud] what was aptly enough termed the "neck verse", which… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
How many young girls there are who do not see any wrongdoing in following certain shameless styles like so many sheep. They… — Pope Pius XII Copy Share Image
I'm not reading currently because I'm getting revisions of a novel. If I read while I'm writing I will unconsciously plagiarize and… — David Duchovny Copy Share Image
I had a perfect confidence, still unshaken, in books. If you read enough you would reach the point of no return. You… — Helen Bevington Copy Share Image
I wondered what it does to each of us to spend the majority of our waking hours doings things we'd rather not… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
A lot of the cosmologists and astrophysicists clearly had been reading science fiction. — Frederik Pohl Copy Share Image
Even though poetry was written for the 'minds ear' as well as the physical ear, the minds ear can be trained only… — Yvor Winters Copy Share Image
When I was 14 a chaplain at school gave me a reading list. I read everything and I went back to him… — A.C. Grayling Copy Share Image
“There are few more powerful mirrors of the human brain's astonishing ability to rearrange itself to learn a new intellectual function than… — Maryanne Wolf Copy Share Image
Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
No matter how enormous a novel may become, the physical act of reading determines that there's no way it can become a… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
