Growing up, my parents managed to show me the importance of reading without cramming it down my throat. A difficult task, I'm… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's very hard to get a movie made. You could spend your life reading scripts that never got made. — Christopher Walken Copy Share Image
I sometimes pretend that I have insomnia when what I really have is a good book and an inadequate respect for tomorrow. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I can't talk about foreign policy like anyone who's spent their life reading and learning foreign policy. But as a citizen in… — Ron Silver Copy Share Image
Too many of our children cannot read. Reading is the building block, and it must be the foundation for education reform. — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
... one flaw throws the loveliness of [everything else] into focus. I remember reading that Shakers deliberately introduced a mistake into the… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
You will get little or nothing from the printed page if you bring it nothing but your eye. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think the reason we might hesitate to pay cash to students for doing well on tests or getting good grades or… — Michael Sandel Copy Share Image
“Sunset's Passions," he read, and opened the book to a random page to read aloud. "'His hands gently caressed her ivory, silky… — Sarah J. Maas Copy Share Image
I started writing while I was a little boy. Maybe it's because I was reading a lot of books I admired, and… — Naguib Mahfouz Copy Share Image
If you’re reading these words, perhaps it’s because something has kicked open the door for you, and you’re ready to embrace change.… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Becoming a writer can kind of spoil your reading because you kind of read on tracks. You're reading as someone who wants… — Homer Hickam Copy Share Image
A lot of my reading over the next few months will be the works of Hans Christian Andersen - I have been… — Roger Moore Copy Share Image
It's too easy to unconsciously echo another novelist's voice while reading fiction, a habit of mimicry I probably picked up as a… — Greg Iles Copy Share Image
The only reason I wanted to do 'MADtv' was because I grew up reading 'Mad Magazine' because I'm a comic-book nerd. — Orlando Jones Copy Share Image
In school, I couldn't see any sense to reading, writing, and arithmetic. Sure, they kicked me out, but for trifles, like continual… — Lee Marvin Copy Share Image
I like doing the readings and the autographing, but the interviewing gets a little tedious because you get asked the same questions… — Terry McMillan Copy Share Image
“Before I was born she had bought herself a new home health care book. It was large and expensive, and it was… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
I do a lot of reading, a lot of studying. I ask questions, I'll go out, travel these countries, I'll watch how… — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
The novels are always morphing into something else now, some kind of hybrid, more of a ground that isn't so easily specified.… — Helen Humphreys Copy Share Image
Why I love the ancients so much? Aside from everything else, when I read them, the entire past between them and me… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
It is well to remember that reading books about the Bible is a very different thing to searching the Word for oneself. — Henry Allen Ironside Copy Share Image
A book is maybe about 350 pages, and the prose allows for readers to get a glimpse into the internal lives of… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
My early and invincible love of reading I would not exchange for all the riches of India. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“At any rate, during the few hours when the depressive state itself eased off long enough to permit the luxury of concentration,… — William Styron Copy Share Image
Kindle, isn’t it?” the waitress asked. “I got one for Christmas, and I love it. I’m reading my way through all of… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
My mom was in education, and I remember reading in one of her books about multiple intelligences - this whole theory about… — Lynn Shelton Copy Share Image
“Books are the ultimate ride-or-die companions. They’re always there, never cancel plans, and don’t care if you’re in your pajamas. They offer… — Life is Positive Copy Share Image
This earth that we live on is full of stories in the same way that, for a fish, the ocean is full… — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
“I have dreamed of that song, of the strange words to that simple rhyme-song, and on several occasions I have understood what… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“In this way, I was able to place my own concerns aside and curl myself up in the cocoon of somebody else's… — Kate Kerrigan Copy Share Image
The beginner should not be discouraged if he finds he does not have the prerequisites for reading the prerequisites. — Paul Halmos Copy Share Image
Like many writers, I'm usually more interested in reading about authors than their actual works. We're more curious to know how they… — Hallgrimur Helgason Copy Share Image
Thank you for sending me a copy of your book - I'll waste no time reading it. — Moses Hadas Copy Share Image
You know what I find most shocking about the Vel'd'Hiv?" Guillaume said. "Its code name." I knew the answer to that, thanks… — Tatiana de Rosnay Copy Share Image
I guess I'm not always looking for the same things in movies that most people are, which I wouldn't have necessarily even… — Andrew Bujalski Copy Share Image
“We want the author to give us answers when all he can do is give us desires.” — Eric Karpeles Copy Share Image
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