I never think about actual things when I'm painting. I'm not thinking, "I'm going to put a person here, a tree here… — Ali Banisadr Copy Share Image
I wasn't reading it [the Bible] as literature. I was reading it as literature, and as history, and as a moral guide,… — David Plotz Copy Share Image
It is a writer's greatest pleasure to hear that someone was kept up until the unholy hours of the morning reading one… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
When I recorded my solo album, 'Keep It Hid,' in 2008, I'd gotten more interested in songwriting, inspired by reading Charles Bukowski… — Dan Auerbach Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think heaven must be one continuous unexhausted reading. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Life is a book that someone else is reading—and you, a key character—hence the need for continual conflict and resolution. We can't… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
My mother always kept library books in the house, and one rainy Sunday afternoon - this was before television, and we didn't… — Beverly Cleary Copy Share Image
There are times my stories become - what I feel - not only accessible to hearing me on television, but they make… — Bill Cosby Copy Share Image
Failing to graduate a populace that values reading has long-term consequences for everyone. — Donalyn Miller Copy Share Image
“You can be a writer who doesn't read everyday. But you're not fooling anyone. It shows, rather embarrassingly, in your work.” — Don Roff Copy Share Image
Sometimes, if you really don't know how you feel about a topic, reading how both sides argue it can help. — Elayne Boosler Copy Share Image
“As has already been noted, fantastic literature developed at precisely the moment when genuine belief in the supernatural was on the wane,… — Franz Rottensteiner Copy Share Image
“In some literature, I’ve read, weather is used as a metaphor. The darker and stormier the weather outside the more diabolical the… — Benjamin R. Smith Copy Share Image
A wild and crazy weekend involves sitting on the front porch, smoking a cigar, reading a book. — Robert M. Gates Copy Share Image
I have made it a practice for several years to read the Bible through in the course of every year. I usually… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
“We can trace the communitarian fantasy that lies at the root of all humanism back to the model of a literary society,… — Peter Sloterdijk Copy Share Image
Ninety percent of the research comes first. I mostly blunder around reading stuff and talking to smart people until an idea batters… — Scott Westerfeld Copy Share Image
My regular life today is reading books, making dolls houses, sewing dolls with my daughter and barbequing. — Milla Jovovich Copy Share Image
“I was just thinking that it would be nice if, for once in a while, life made things easier,” I told him,… — Adele Rose Copy Share Image
There is a big difference between he who reads just because he knows how to read and he who does understand what… — Wagner T Matioli Copy Share Image
Dr. Phil was very helpful and caring. I believe he helped all of us there and watching how to better relate, understand,… — Louie Anderson Copy Share Image
Despite Langdon’s six-foot frame and athletic build, Anderson saw none of the cold, hardened edge he expected from a man famous for… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
“In omnibus requiem quaesivi, et nusquam inveni nisi in angulo cum libro. (Everywhere I have sought peace and not found it, except… — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
“Hugo headed off toward the door to leave, but the bookstore was warm and quiet, and the teetering piles of books fascinated… — Brian Selznick Copy Share Image
I learned little save that most of the deeds, good and bad both, incurring opprobrium or plaudits or reward either, within the… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Seek in reading and thou shalt find in meditation; knock in prayer and it shall be opened in contemplation. — John of the Cross Copy Share Image
After reading Howitt's account of the Australian gold-diggings one evening,... I asked myself why I might not be washing some golddaily, though… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Libraries allow children to ask questions about the world and find the answers. And the wonderful thing is that once a child… — Laura Bush Copy Share Image
I had a longing for ritual, something I could cling to, a routine to make me feel well and contented. I hoped… — Jack Dee Copy Share Image
Written on the body is a secret code only visible in certain lights: the accumulations of a lifetime gather there. In places… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I think in reading a few sentences of text you can just tell the tone, and that's something I love in prose… — Lauren Mayberry Copy Share Image
“...begged them as we read our literary texts, only to listen. To wrench open - it takes an effort of will -… — Rick Gekoski Copy Share Image
It usually helps me write by reading - somehow the reading gear in your head turns the writing gear. — Steven Wright Copy Share Image
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