“One thing I never forgot from my reading--in most cases, misunderstandings were a result of not talking about things. So, early on,… — Jenny Lee Ellison Copy Share Image
We have been telling and hearing and reading war stories for millennia. Their endurance may lie in their impossibility; they can never… — Drew Gilpin Faust Copy Share Image
I realized that every lesson, conference, response, and assignment I taught must lead students away from me and toward their autonomy as… — Donalyn Miller Copy Share Image
“I roused myself from the book which I was dreaming over rather than reading,” — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
I was reading The Bible a lot through my 20s, mostly the Old Testament, just because I was knocked out by the… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
Children do not learn in school; they are babysat. It takes maybe 50 hours to teach reading, writing, and arithmetic. After that,… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
To me, if I'm reading a fantastic story or I go on a nice first date and I have a wonderful time,… — Billy Campbell Copy Share Image
I go back to the reading room, where I sink down in the sofa and into the world of The Arabian Nights.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Reading gives us somewhere to go when we have to stay where we are.” — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
“There is more reason to say grace before beginning a book than there is to say it before beginning to dine.” — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
“His chief form of entertainment was reading. The last moments he was in a cabin were usually spent scanning bookshelves and nightstands.… — Michael Finkel Copy Share Image
I suppose you know where this country would be, where the world would be, if everyone who got depressed by the papers… — Sue Kaufman Copy Share Image
Murder, arson, adultery, drugging and drinking, cruel politics--reading a book crammed with such activities can make the timid and yearning among us… — Edith Pearlman Copy Share Image
Never use a verb other than "said" to carry dialogue... I once noticed Mary McCarthy ending a line of dialogue with "she… — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
I have found, in short, from reading my own writing, that my subject in fiction is the action of grace in territory… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
I started reading all these men's magazines, trying to follow all the tips: what you're supposed to wear, what you're supposed to… — Ryan Gosling Copy Share Image
I remember when I was in my late teens just getting rid of lots of records, realizing I only ever listened to… — Jonny Greenwood Copy Share Image
“I'm never going to complain about receiving free early copies of books, because clearly there's nothing to complain about, but it does… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
Alcohol makes other people less tedious, and food less bland, and can help provide what the Greeks called entheos, or the slight… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Whatever I'm reading at the moment seems to influence whatever I'm writing. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I believe we have an obligation to read for pleasure, in private and in public places. If we read for pleasure, if… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Over the years, my experience, my tastes, my prejudices have changed: as the days go by, my memory keeps reshelving, cataloguing, discarding… — Alberto Manguel 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
Mark Twain said (particularly about Pink Marsh): "I have been reading him again, and my admiration overflows all limits. ... How effortless… — George Ade Copy Share Image
Anthropology is separated from mass reading, and that is something that bothered Margaret Mead. She always said that she wrote everything for… — Lily King Copy Share Image
We recommend for the training of teachers not only a considerable artistic education in general but special attention to the art of… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
When you decide you want to make a film, you start listening to everything that anyone has to say about filmmaking and… — Tom Ford Copy Share Image
“Forever, reading has been central, the necessary fix, the support sustem. (...) She read to discover how not to be Charlotte, how… — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
“One habit: choosing a book and starting each day with a dedicated time of reading and gazing, becoming an apprentice to a… — Frances Mayes Copy Share Image
It's very easy, when we're reading those articles on the 20th page of 'The New York Times,' to distance ourselves and say,… — Lynn Nottage Copy Share Image
My job is about the most fun thing I do, but I have a broad set of interests, going places, reading things,… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
I remember reading The Bluest Eye when I was a young parent, and something opened in me. That's the highest aspiration. — George Saunders Copy Share Image
If I'm reading a book and it seems truly interesting, I tend to start reading back to front in order not to… — David Shields Copy Share Image
A lot of what the 'Culture' is about is a reaction to all the science fiction I was reading in my very… — Iain Banks Copy Share Image
I was a huge bookworm, total nerd, so I was a victim in middle school. I was in three academic clubs, so… — Nicole Gale Anderson Copy Share Image