With 'Stardust', I hope what I was doing is giving 30-year-olds and 40-year-olds and 25-year-olds and 60-year-olds a chance to get the… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
When you're alone and you feel sad, try reading a book. Try touching someone's heart. Try to imagine what they were thinking,… — Mizuki Nomura Copy Share Image
I began as a boy with artistic talent... as a visual artist... I thought that was what I'd become and in my… — Russell Banks Copy Share Image
“If you are mesmerized by televised stupidity, and don't get to hear or read stories about your world, you can be fooled… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
The really good stand up comedians can be angry but relatable, and they have interestingly humanizing personalities. Their observational skills are far… — Kunal Nayyar Copy Share Image
You have to plan it [your devotion to God] every day. And, the best time to plan it is before your day… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
If I were a snarky Reddit user though, I would say, hypothetically, that that would just be like reading Reddit's Front Page… — Alexis Ohanian Copy Share Image
“Your understanding and interpretation of [a novel] is undoubtedly unique…and that is the real beauty of the relationship that joins readers, books… — Briar Kit Esme Copy Share Image
When I read a novel that I really like, I feel as if I am in direct, personal communication with the author.… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
I guess we all feel like underdogs. I remember being a freshman at Brown University and not knowing what a WASP was.… — Stephen Karam Copy Share Image
“He was captured first by the illustrations, and then he began to read, to start with, the stories that dealt with magic,… — William Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
The physical domain of the country had its counterpart in me. The trails I made led outward into the hills and swamps,… — John Haines Copy Share Image
In addition to exploring imaginative worlds, I believe that young people should have access to reading material that validates their life, that… — Theresa Breslin Copy Share Image
Politicians of all kinds think there's some running in talking tough about children's reading. They think that if they announce to the… — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
“When we read, another person thinks for us: we merely repeat his mental process. It is the same as the pupil, in… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“The world shown us in books, whether the books be confessed epics or professed gospels, or in codes, or in political orations,… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“That you are a born again Christian does not mean you will automatically succeed except you follow God's principles. Never forget faith… — Patience Johnson Copy Share Image
In reading the scriptures of truth, we often put wrong constructions upon them, and apply them improperly; and I apprehend it has… — Elias Hicks Copy Share Image
I was asked to do a reading of 'G.B.F.' and I loved the script. I thought it was one of the most… — Sasha Pieterse Copy Share Image
Every reader should remember the diffidence of Socrates, and repair by his candour the injuries of time: he should impute the seeming… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“Every time a written word is put to page it is the opportunity to expand our minds, whether we are the writer… — K. Lamb Copy Share Image
All I know is that Salman has signed 80 percent of my films without reading the script, and almost all our films… — Sajid Nadiadwala Copy Share Image
Reading Poe was like a near-death experience, the kind that makes you feel fragile and free in its wake. I felt almost… — Koren Zailckas Copy Share Image
I wanted to be an artist. I was studying art. I wanted to be a great painter. When I went into the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“How can you not love reading? It's wonderful. An excursion, an adventure... an escape from reality.' She adored reading and had a… — Robin Caroll Copy Share Image
A library takes the gift of reading one step further by offering personalized learning opportunities second to none, a powerful antidote to… — Julie Andrews Copy Share Image
A book on cheap paper does not convince. It is not prized, it is like a wheezy doctor with pigtail tobacco breath,… — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
When I take up a book I have read before, I know what to expect; the satisfaction is not lessened by being… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Amid the push to excellence, with its measurement and accountability, it is easy to lose sight of a key ingredient in reading… — Jim Trelease Copy Share Image
Reading is how I became an actor because I didn't grow up in a house where there was an awareness of film… — Mary Steenburgen Copy Share Image
“We as authors sign a pact with our readers; they'll go on reading because they trust us to play fair with them… — Pamela Glass Kelly Copy Share Image
There is only one way to read, which is to browse in libraries and bookshops, picking up books that attract you, reading… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
It was long before I got at the maxim, that in reading an old mathematician you will not read his riddle unless… — Augustus De Morgan Copy Share Image
Reading a book is like having the ability to dip a straw into the authors soul and sip and slurp without lowering… — Ash Sweeney Copy Share Image
If anyone spends almost the whole day in reading...he gradually loses the capacity for thinking...This is the case with many learned persons;… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
More and more I'm finding that I'm reading history, I'm reading biography, I'm reading autobiography for a sense of people who've been… — John P. Kotter Copy Share Image
If minds are truly alive they will seek out books, for books are the human race recounting its memorable experiences, confronting its… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A good writer preserves an air of freedom in his prose, so that the reader won't know how a story will end… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
A felon could plead "benefit of clergy" and be saved by [reading aloud] what was aptly enough termed the "neck verse", which… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
There are times my stories become - what I feel - not only accessible to hearing me on television, but they make… — Bill Cosby Copy Share Image