A foreigner coming here and reading the Congressional Record would say that the President of the United States was elected solely for… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
... if this world were anything near what it should be there would be no more need of a Book Week than… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
What are you reading?" Owen asks. "Charlotte's Web," Liz says. "It's really sad. One of the main characters just died." "You ought… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
I've just finished reading a book about the brilliant Margaret Rutherford. She wasn't a beauty, but inside she was absolutely blazing and… — Sophie Thompson Copy Share Image
“She liked getting hold of some book... and keeping it to herself, and gnawing its contents in privacy, and pondering the meaning… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
We do not enjoy a story fully at the first reading. Not till the curiosity, the sheer narrative lust, has been given… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
My favorite, and the author I wish I was reading right now and always is Nora Ephron. I love the humor, the… — Garance Dore Copy Share Image
If every head of state and every government official spent an hour a day reading poetry we'd live in a much more… — Mark Strand Copy Share Image
Do we really need school? I don't mean education, just forced schooling: six classes a day, five days a week, nine months… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
“I have a really vivid imagination and I find it difficult to read scenes of complete graphic violence. That's not to say… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
“[E]very man hath liberty to write, but few ability. Heretofore learning was graced by judicious scholars, but now noble sciences are vilified… — Robert Burton Copy Share Image
Now, academics are not always the easiest people to talk to, and the scholarly papers aren't always the easiest papers to read,… — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
I myself, a professional mathematician, on re-reading my own work find it strains my mental powers to recall to mind from the… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
A university is a reading and discussion club. If students knew how to use the library, they wouldn't need the rest of… — John Ciardi Copy Share Image
“The flesh of animals who feed excursively is allowed to have a higher flavour than that of those who are cooped up.… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
In seventh grade I had a magical teacher, her name was Mrs. Fried. She wore only pink, she drove a pink Mustang,… — Darren Aronofsky Copy Share Image
Before 'This is Our Youth', I did a week of table reading 'Airline Highway' at Steppenwolf in Chicago while the author, Lisa… — Tavi Gevinson Copy Share Image
I even feel guilty if I'm reading a novel, because I think I should be reading Homer again. I don't really know… — Simon Armitage Copy Share Image
For me in readings, I really have to be diplomatic and use discernment in what comes through because there is a lot… — Tyler Henry Copy Share Image
I used to be very disciplined about only buying three books ahead of what I was reading, but my husband corrupted me,… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
Don't make a whole to-do about it. Don't get down on yourself be- cause you're not an expert rower; don't start reading… — Bernie Glassman Copy Share Image
Every time I am reading actors I can pretty well tell which ones have studied with Meisner. It is because they are… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
“Reading is like leaving the house... Yes, you can go your whole life without doing it, but you're not really experiencing all… — Casey Neistat Copy Share Image
People really want to think that these things really happened. I don't know why that is important, but I know that when… — Alison Bechdel Copy Share Image
By the time I was in my teens, I was reading science fiction. I had this maternal uncle who had cartons of… — Twinkle Khanna Copy Share Image
I think that a classic style in writing tends to remove the reader one level from the immediacy of the experience. For… — James Jones Copy Share Image
Reading and gardening are really big for me, along with music and exercise. If I go more than a day or two… — Mark Deklin Copy Share Image
“I often buy print books only after I've read them in some digital form or other. It's my odd way of keeping… — Joyce Rachelle Copy Share Image
I have odometer readings, kids; all sorts of measurements of what I've been doing for the last 20 years. I get it.… — Dar Williams Copy Share Image
I'm sitting in the bus station, minding my own business, reading 'Ta-Da!' magazine; a magazine by and for gay magicians, but that's… — Dave Attell Copy Share Image
Instinct taught me 20 years ago to pace a song or a concert performance. That translates into pacing a story, pleasing a… — Jimmy Buffett Copy Share Image
Easy reading is damn hard writing. But if it's right, it's easy. It's the other way round, too. If it's slovenly written,… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
My notion about any artist is that we honor him best by reading him, by playing his music, by seeing his plays… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
I need to continue reading books, and I like to learn about different people in the world, different people with success in… — Unai Emery Copy Share Image
For me, I'm not that interested in reading newspapers, for example, so the Labour Live event is a really good way for… — Grace Chatto Copy Share Image
I'm reading Elena Ferrante's 'Neapolitan' novels. They are amazing. I feel like she gets the entire experience of being a woman. — Konkona Sen Sharma Copy Share Image
School is something that you learn - reading and writing. Education is what you learn from the family, from the environment, from… — Bunker Roy Copy Share Image
True taste is forever growing, learning, reading, worshipping, laying its hand upon its mouth because it is astonished, casting its shoes from… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
“It is strange that there should be so little reading in the world, and so much writing. People in general do not… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Spending more time with friends and family costs nothing. Nor does walking, cooking, meditating, making love, reading or eating dinner at the… — Carl Honore Copy Share Image