Only occasionally do I read new fiction. Most of my reading is heavily dictated by what I'm writing at the time. — Simon Mawer Copy Share Image
Basically, my musical life is split between raving with drugged-up kids and reading obscure 75-year-old poetry, drinking very nice red wine with… — Henrik Vibskov Copy Share Image
I always wanted to act. My brother and I would hang out all the time, and a lot of our entertainment came… — Katy O'Brian Copy Share Image
“There is no gift of principles, you must apply them if you want to move forward.” — Patience Johnson Copy Share Image
I tend to think of the reading of any book as preparation for the next reading of it. There are always intervening… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
I was on a very bumpy plane ride, an overnight flight. I was so miserable, and I pulled out 'David Copperfield,' and… — Jennifer Egan 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
You can't develop character by reading books. You develop it from conflict. — Leonard Ravenhill Copy Share Image
In England, those qualities of playing it simple, being in the right position, reading the game, knowing the right moment to make… — Xabi Alonso Copy Share Image
If I'm writing a story and you're reading it, or vice versa, you took time out of your day to pick up… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
After my mother died, I lived with relatives. Reading was a means of escaping into other worlds, as photography, much later, was… — Stuart Franklin Copy Share Image
He was reading from the beginning so that he could get to the end, where the reader was assured that the knight… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
It was really hard coming to terms with the Nazi history. Then in my twenties I was traveling to Germany. There was… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
A classic is a book which with each rereading offers as much of a sense of discovery as the first reading. — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“Is it not a pity when some stylistic subtlety is lost without trace by the reader's inattention?” — David John Richards Copy Share Image
“There was a period when I lived on book reviews, when I had basked and drawn sustenance from what I deemed the… — Frederick Exley Copy Share Image
A lot of my time is spent reading antique or out-of-print books of reference. — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
“In all memory there is a degree of fallenness; we are all exiles from our own pasts, just as, on looking up… — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
My interest in chemistry was started by reading Robert Kennedy Duncan's popular books while a high school student in Des Moines, Iowa,… — Wallace Carothers Copy Share Image
“One part of the study looked specifically at the impact on students involved in theater. Between ninth and twelfth grades, their reading… — Michael Sokolove Copy Share Image
Being a best-selling author just means the world for me. Some of my happiest memories, growing up, are being at book stores… — Chris Colfer Copy Share Image
“Great literature will insist upon its self-sufficiency in the face of the worthiest causes” — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
I stopped reading William Faulkner because it's hard work. I want to read a good writer, but I also want to read… — John Grisham Copy Share Image
In reading a novel, any novel, we have to know perfectly well that the whole thing is nonsense, and then, while reading,… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“I think that writing should be honest and simple, and it should say something about what it means to be a person.… — M.V. Carey Copy Share Image
Reading aloud with children is known to be the single most important activity for building the knowledge and skills they will eventually… — Marilyn Jager Adams Copy Share Image
Reading about utopianism, and eventually creating characters with their own utopian ambitions, was the way I learned to live with being a… — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
“I really enjoyed hearing the likesand dislikesof my readers at book clubs as well as meeting new fans at the book signing… — J. Alexander Greenwood Copy Share Image
“Reading books is a way for you to communicate with and learn from the best thinkers that are writing today and that… — Joshua Rogers Copy Share Image
“The best way to learn about books ... is to spend time with them, talk about them, defend them.” — Charlie Lovett Copy Share Image
“It's easy to give when you have more than enough, but it’s easier to feel you have enough when you give” — Ela Crain Copy Share Image
“For the reading of these books seems to perform a curious couching operation on the senses; one sees more intensely afterwards; the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“This was his favorite time of day, reading to his heart's content before going to sleep. When he tired of reading, he… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
With reading, I was very lucky. I had a mother who read to me, not because she had time - she was… — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
“The man who takes up nothing but a newspaper, but reads it to think, to deduct conclusions from its premises, and form… — Cecil B. Hartley Copy Share Image
I knew Gandhi only as a freedom fighter. It is only after reading his autobiography that I realized what a man he… — Rohini Hattangadi Copy Share Image
We must be forewarned that only rarely does a text easily lend itself to the reader's curiosity... the reading of a text… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
An essential part of any successful action on the part of the United States is an understanding on the part of the… — George C. Marshall Copy Share Image
“When Miss Larsen talks to me, she bends down and looks me in the eye. When she asks questions, she waits for… — Christina Baker Kline Copy Share Image
