“Think of me, the uneducated child reading books in my room at 22 Hyde Park Gate -- now advanced to this glory...… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“[When under stress I thought of] the books I had read [and applied] them to myself. I [imagined I was] one of… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
I'm just writing what I know. I've never been much of a reader of fantasy, and I think you write what you,… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
Recently I was reading somewhere or other an Italian curio-dealer who attempted to sell a 17th century crucifix to J.P. Morgan. Inside… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
It's hard recommending books for kids, and a huge responsibility. If you get it wrong, they don't tell you they hate that… — Meg Rosoff Copy Share Image
“People who can read and write expertly, as you can, are miracles and, in my opinion, entitle us to suspect we might… — Kurt Vonnegut Jr Copy Share Image
When I started reading George R.R. Martin's 'A Song of Ice and Fire' novels, it was the late 1990s and obsessing over… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
I was very aware of the fact that there are a lot of comics out there that I love, because I've grown… — Adrian Tomine Copy Share Image
There are friends with whom we share neither interests nor any particular experiences, friends with whom we never correspond, whom we seldom… — Stanislaw Lem Copy Share Image
I had been emotionally affected by the story [of Steven King], on my own, and I knew how I wanted to feel… — Bridget Carpenter Copy Share Image
Jeff Chu's pilgrimage across America to discover his own place as a gay man in the Christian church as well as attitudes… — Donna Freitas Copy Share Image
“But the not-very-highbrow truth of the matter was that the reading was how I got my ya-yas out. For the sake of… — Julie Powell Copy Share Image
As for the differences between audio and the printed page, the sonic aspects of poetry are important to me. I read my… — Rae Armantrout Copy Share Image
Reading honest literature makes you love the world. Knowledge and understanding are love. Reading educates our feelings and enhances our sympathy. When… — John Dufresne Copy Share Image
Common sense should tell us that reading is the ultimate weapon--destroying ignorance, poverty and despair before they can destroyus. A nation that… — Jim Trelease Copy Share Image
I'm open to reading almost anything - fiction, nonfiction - as long as I know from the first sentence or two that… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I don't believe in holy writ. Buy fifty books or twenty-five books, take three weeks off, read them and make up your… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
Reading and life are not separate but symbiotic. And for this serious task of imaginative discovery and self-discovery, there is and remains… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
Gandhi seldom taught with the help of books. He did not want to paralyse the pupils' intellect by loading it with book… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My first novel - the novel I wrote before 'Midnight's Children' - feels, to me, now, very - I mean, I get… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Reading a hard copy book, and reading a book on an iPad are slightly different experiences. What they both have in common… — LeVar Burton Copy Share Image
Test scores aren't perfect, but having a test score for math or reading or other things that we can objectively measure is… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
It's a feeling you get. You could have a hundred actors reading for one part, and they could all be spectacular, but… — Daren Kagasoff Copy Share Image
I can always tell when you're reading somewhere in the house,' my mother used to say. 'There's a special silence, a reading… — Francis Spufford Copy Share Image
When we started publishing, you had to be better than good. You had to be excellent. But as long as people are… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
From the time I was a little boy I found myself reading history when I had a choice. I read a lot… — Donald Kagan Copy Share Image
Back in '86, '87, Steve Williams and Paul Davis and me were reading a book by Robert Hess called 'Eat to Win,'… — Tony Adams Copy Share Image
I was reading poetry to my girlfriends, and they were like, 'You're really good. You should go to some poetry readings or… — Jill Scott Copy Share Image
Good stories flow like honey but bad stories stick in the craw [gullet]. What is a bad story? It's a story that… — Arthur Christiansen Copy Share Image
People are so used to reading novels now, they just read a poem straight through to get the meaning. And that's something… — Alice Oswald Copy Share Image
Reading and writing don't inevitably go together. You can read without learning a thing about writing, grammar, or spelling, although, you certainly… — Frank Smith Copy Share Image
Reading is like looking through several windows which open to an infinite landscape…For me life without reading would be like being in… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Reading is important. Books are important. Librarians are important. (Also, libraries are not child-care facilities, but sometimes feral children raise themselves among… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I can spend the day without writing or reading, but I can't spend a day without listening to music. I listen to… — Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt Copy Share Image
The success of the poem is determined not by how much the poet felt in writing it, but by how much the… — John Ciardi Copy Share Image
“There comes a time in every man’s life when his thoughts lightly turn to setting his library on fire. To burn away… — Steven Hardesty Copy Share Image
Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody's piano playing in my living room has to the… — Igor Stravinsky Copy Share Image
“She had a grocer's faith in books; they can be handed out like Green Stamps and were redeemable for a variety of… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
Your inspiration is better if it comes from many different sources and your sensibilities will transform all those influences and inspiration into… — Peter Lindbergh Copy Share Image
![“[When under stress I thought of] the books I had read [and applied] them to myself. I [imagined I was] one of the characters [and soon found myself] in made-up circumstances which were most agreeable to my inclinations.” quote by Jean-Jacques Rousseau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/500/jean-jacques-rousseau-418_book_when-under-stress-i-thought-of-the-books_1128017.png)
![“I had been emotionally affected by the story [of Steven King], on my own, and I knew how I wanted to feel watching it because I had felt it already reading it. God bless them, Bad Robot hired me to develop it and I spent the next six months in a room, alone, with a lot of index cards up on a wall…” quote by Bridget Carpenter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5c3/bridget-carpenter-44527_affected_i-had-been-emotionally-affected-by-the-s_2026458.jpg)
![“Good stories flow like honey but bad stories stick in the craw [gullet]. What is a bad story? It's a story that cannot be absorbed in the first time of reading. It's a story that leaves questions unanswered.” quote by Arthur Christiansen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3e7/arthur-christiansen-40396_first-time_good-stories-flow-like-honey-but-bad-sto_2136553.jpg)
