“For is not a Book the most reliable of Companions--and generally among the most stimulating as well? No need to worry about… — Natalie Wexler Copy Share Image
Anyways, I am a nerd, bookworm, geek... whatever you want to call me. I'm the type of person that would rather sit… — Jacqueline Emerson Copy Share Image
I don't watch a huge amount of telly. I read a lot. I'm reading at the moment 'Freedom,' by Jonathan Franzen, a… — Nick Clegg Copy Share Image
Sometimes I get the feeling that there are orgies going on all over new York City, and somebody says, `Let's call Desmond,'… — Paul Desmond Copy Share Image
What made me want to be on it was reading a really good script, and being compelled by and attracted to the… — Sasha Alexander Copy Share Image
Our amended Constitution is the lodestar for our aspirations. Like every text worth reading, it is not crystalline. The phrasing is broad… — William J. Brennan Copy Share Image
I'm perfectly fine with the fact that lots of young folks are wanting to watch anime and read manga. I'm perfectly happy… — John Scalzi Copy Share Image
Imagination, it turns out, is a great deal like reporting in your own head. Here is a paradox of fiction-writing. You are… — Amy Waldman Copy Share Image
But, in the end, the books that surround me are the books that made me, through my reading (and misreading) of them;… — Ramona Koval Copy Share Image
Reading, I had learned, was as creative a process as writing, sometimes more so. When we read of the dying rays of… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
Jocelyn recognized reading as a sacred pastime and usually wouldn't interrupt Clary in the middle of a book, even to yell at… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
There is no past, as long as books shall live. Books make the past our heritage and our home. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Notes on 'Camp' talks a lot about homosexuality and androgyny and performance and a false seriousness, nit-picking the trivial things and making… — Violet Chachki Copy Share Image
I see all of us reading ourselves away from ourselves, straining in circles of light to find more light until the line… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
Our high respect for a well-read man is praise enough for literature. - Ralph Waldo Emerson — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Next to praying there is nothing so important in practical religion as Bible reading. By reading that book we may learn what… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I don't know what's more tragic, knowing how to read and choosing not to, or not knowing how to read and refusing… — Patricia Goldbach Copy Share Image
The only way we could remember would be by constant re-reading, for knowledge unused tends to drop out of mind. Knowledge used… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
When I'm writing, I really want to satisfy myself. I've got a story that I am working on and struggling with, and… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
I suppose that it was inevitable that my word-base broadened. I could now for the first time pick up a book and… — Alex Haley Copy Share Image
Anything we need to know, we can learn it from a book. Reading, careful study, a little practice, and we’re throwing knives… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
A friend once told me that the real message Bram Stoker sought to convey in 'Dracula' is that a human being needs… — Joe Queenan Copy Share Image
books are brain food. If every American would purchase the equivalent of his weight in books each year, this country would be… — Patricia Schroeder Copy Share Image
I spend a lot of time thinking of stories and reading and that's where my creativity comes from. — Mukul Dev Copy Share Image
I've worked with Emily Skinner and I've seen Linda Balgord's work. I saw Harvey Keitel at the call-backs. But generally I don't… — Max von Essen Copy Share Image
The so-called paradoxes of an author, to which a reader takes exception, often exist not in the author's book at all, but… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“I am ashamed to say this, but as a child, neither my parents not my teachers pushed me to read. In fact,… — Daniel Whyte III Copy Share Image
I think reading is one of the greatest forms of magic available to us on the planet. Reading is so important. — Jim James Copy Share Image
It's funny that I got to do 'On the Road' because the thing that had the biggest impact on me growing up… — Garrett Hedlund Copy Share Image
I mean I like most of the films that I've seen that I've been in. Those are the kind of films that… — Benicio Del Toro Copy Share Image
“She wanted to read things -- could not resist wanting to read things -- and reading was easily done, and relatively inexpensive.… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
“Great writers wield their words like a weapon; a double-edged sword to strike their readers with truth where they least expect it.… — Matthew D. Forgenti Copy Share Image
The magic of comics is that there are three people involved in any comic. There's whoever's writing it and whoever's drawing it.… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Here's the problem: we are living in a time when the act of reading is changing. The nature of a reader's attention… — Ayad Akhtar Copy Share Image
Reading-not occasionally, not only on vacation but everyday-gives me nourishment and enlarges my life in mysterious and essential ways. — Mona Simpson Copy Share Image
I admit TV is a far cry from the films that I started my career with, like 'Ek Doctor Ki Maut.' It's… — Pankaj Kapur Copy Share Image
