“Quiet,” she hissed at me, her voice shockingly aggressive for such a small person. “Otherwise, I’ll shut you up myself.” — Adele Rose Copy Share Image
I've never had any interest in reading the real-life stories of criminals. I don't want to get inside their heads. — Viv Albertine Copy Share Image
I find reading screenplays difficult, as they're only a roadmap for what a movie might end up being. — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
I'm quite a calm player. I like to have the ball at my feet, I'm good with the ball and I'm quite… — Victor Lindelof Copy Share Image
All writers want to know that someone is reading their work, taking them seriously. It provides a kind of moral support. — Felice Picano Copy Share Image
“...we can pretend that the book in question is not Mr. West’s but mine, made mine by the madness of my reading.” — J.M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
“Let this little book be thy friend, if, owing to fortune or through thine own fault, thou canst not find a dearer… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I got my style from a lot of different people, even my style of reading, even Johnny Carson inspired me. — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Yet if strict criticism should till frown on our method, let candor and good humor forgive what is done to the best… — Sarah Fielding Copy Share Image
“Do not say I have no time to read. Set a daily time (15-20 minutes)for reading. Reading is rich source of wisdom… — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
I buy a lot of random books, and it's really hard to immediately fall asleep if I've been staring at a screen,… — Bria Vinaite Copy Share Image
I try really hard to cultivate the pure love of reading, to make time for it, because it would be really sad… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
In times of storm and tempest, of indecision and desolation, a book already known and loved makes better reading than something new… — Elizabeth Goudge Copy Share Image
There are some books that get huge numbers of positive reviews, but reading them satiates people. They say, 'I've read enough now'. — Frank Deford Copy Share Image
Preparation for becoming attentive to Christianity does not consist in reading many books ... but in fuller immersion in existence. — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
The great sickness and the grievous evil consist in this: that all the things that man finds written in books, he presumes… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
I should as soon expect a farmer to prosper in business who contented himself with sowing his fields and never looking at… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
In American Romances, her new book of essays, Rebecca Brown has a voice that is full of pop references, family stories, and… — Susan Stinson Copy Share Image
“Why are we reading, if not in hope of beauty laid bare, life heightened and its deepest mystery probed? Can the writer… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
“I don't see the use of reading the same thing over and over again,' said Phillip. 'That's only a laborious form of… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
For instance, the notion of non-penal substitution. This idea, found in the work of the nineteenth century Scottish Reformed theologian John McLeod… — Oliver D. Crisp Copy Share Image
“Welcome to Book-a-holic Anonymous. Hi, I'm Jazz and I am addicted to the written word. I love the smell of the blackest… — Jazz Feylynn Copy Share Image
“One evening, after he’d read a piece about yet another savagery in Bosnia, I saw there were tears in his eyes. ‘Don’t… — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
One of the things about the arts that is so important is that in the arts you discover the only way to… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
