Each day millions of children arrive in American classrooms in search of more than reading and math skills. They are looking for… — Jim Trelease Copy Share Image
I was born in Japan and raised in Japan, but those are the only things that make me Japanese, I've grown up… — Hideo Kojima Copy Share Image
“You can tell a lot about a person's priorities in life by reading their will.” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
“nothing tends to weaken the resources of the mind so much as a miscellaneous course of reading unaccompanied (as it usually is,… — Robert H. (Robert Henry) Elliot Copy Share Image
“She would go off in the morning with the punt full of books, and spend long glorious days away in the forest… — Elizabeth von Arnim Copy Share Image
The U.S. is telling the Northern Alliance to kill Taliban prisoners. It's totally a breach of all the known conventions of war.… — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
“Our reading was subversive, and we knew it... I was now believing books more than I believed what I saw and heard...… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
“A more generous, more useful interpretation of the phrase is that we should write about what we know, *however we come to… — Christopher Beha Copy Share Image
Of course there is no denying the possible pleasure of holing up with a fat, slow-moving, mediocre novel; still, we all know… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
I always read everything on the desks of people I went to see in Moscow, London, Paris I found it quite useful. — W. Averell Harriman Copy Share Image
I got to spend all of my time every day at work reading and editing papers about cutting-edge technical research and getting… — Kevin J. Anderson Copy Share Image
It seems to me that most people are interested in reading about characters who are richer than they are. — Stuart Woods Copy Share Image
The reason I was angry all the time was that Gloria Steinem and all those people, without reading my work, were saying… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Every new book I read comes to be a part of that overall and unitary book that is the sum of my… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
Presidents today spend more time speaking than they do reading or thinking. — Kathleen Hall Jamieson Copy Share Image
It's very different when you're reading a script to when you're watching a movie for the first time. — Maisie Williams Copy Share Image
I think every citizen in Burlington has a right to voice their opinion and participate in the local political process no matter… — Tim Scott Copy Share Image
A person of mature years and ripe development, who is expecting nothing from literature but the corroboration and renewal of past ideas,… — Charles Horton Cooley Copy Share Image
No time is ever wasted if you have a book along as a companion. — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
“When we think about how to move our students into deeper levels of reading, it is helpful to remember an expression that… — Kelly Gallagher Copy Share Image
“Sometimes when you read, it’s like certain sentences strike home and knock you flat. It’s as if they say everything you have… — Gunnhild Øyehaug Copy Share Image
I barely read. I'm not a good reader at all. Rather than reading, I used to sit in front of the TV… — Will Poulter Copy Share Image
“Slowly like a movie fade out, the real world evaporates. I'm alone, inside the world of the story. My favorite feeling in… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
At eleven I was at the peak of my creative powers: I was writing stories and playlets, putting together poetryprojects. I was… — Todd Solondz Copy Share Image
I think that if Americans put critical thought, which I think they will, into what they are reading in these newspapers and… — Reince Priebus Copy Share Image
“Beach reading: Planning on reading, but failing relentlessly due to the heart-stirring view.” — Malak El Halabi Copy Share Image
History is a strange experience. The world is quite small now; but history is large and deep. Sometimes you can go much… — Gilbert Highet Copy Share Image
George Saunders is outside of Chicago too. I've met him a few times, actually. I really like him a lot. He's a… — How to Dress Well Copy Share Image
I got more true knowledge from reading the Book of God in one month, than I could ever have acquired from all… — George Whitefield Copy Share Image
“Reading is the noblest of all the hobbies, that is why people mention it so frequently in their resume even if they… — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
My readers are as diverse as any group you will ever see. Something that booksellers always tell me. That they are always… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
“I have always been good at reading, but I have never been good at reading between the lines.” — Nick Lake Copy Share Image
The greatest threat to extremism isn't drones firing missiles, but girls reading books. — Nicholas D. Kristof Copy Share Image
