When I was 20, political music was the uncoolest thing on earth. But when Bush got elected, that was the first time… — Bjork Copy Share Image
One of the maddening ironies of writing books is that it leaves so little time for reading others'. My bedside is piled… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
If we're trying to excite young people about reading, we need to be experiencingbookjoy ourselves so that we have references to make.… — Pat Mora Copy Share Image
But reading is not idleness?it is the passive, receptive side of civilization without which the active and creative world would be meaningless.… — Stephen Spender Copy Share Image
For someone who loves literature, and all books on principle, being asked to name three titles over a half century of serious… — Thomas Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Reading is accumulating knowledge. But not only that. Reading offers us every day what religion promises us for a posthumous and improbable… — Camilo Gomes Jr Copy Share Image
Don’t be in too much of a rush to be published. There is enormous value in listening and reading and writing—and then… — Sharon Creech Copy Share Image
I feel annoyed that in His wisdom, [God] chose to reel me in with middle-brow Christian fiction. It could be worse, I… — Lauren F. Winner Copy Share Image
“Wide reading is important. You don’t have to like it, but it’s important to grapple with things you don’t understand. I’ve been… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
For any woman reading this, I hope it helps you to know you have options. I want to encourage every woman, especially… — Angelina Jolie Copy Share Image
I used to have to do readings in church, and it was terrifying. I would never have my glasses. The words are… — Jim Gaffigan Copy Share Image
I think that for most of our history, there was a nuanced reading of the Second Amendment until the decision by the… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
The publishing industry, unsurprisingly, is full of different people who love different things and express that love in different languages. Find the… — Leslie Jamison Copy Share Image
I don't have much time to read. I'm more of a problem solver. I'll have an idea or a problem, and I'll… — Alan Schaaf Copy Share Image
When somebody says that six million people died in the Holocaust, there is nobody in the world who can understand that. It's… — Uzodinma Iweala Copy Share Image
“You turn the book over in your hands, you scan the sentences on the back of the jacket, generic phrases that don't… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
I do recall loving 'All Quiet on the Western Front,' and I know I read it in a schoolroom, but I think… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
Congratulations. The fact that you're reading this means you've taken one giant step closer to surviving until your next birthday. — James Patterson Copy Share Image
I've had a passion for horses since I was very young - I used to sit on the floor in front of… — David Cassidy Copy Share Image
Reading is professionally important for me to keep tuned in to what's being written in my genre, let's not lie. But that's… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
There were books everywhere in my house. Books were very present. I just loved books. I never understood reading as anything but… — Lisa Lucas Copy Share Image
It was only when I began modeling at 18 that I really began enjoying fashion and reading any fashion magazine I could… — Poppy Delevingne Copy Share Image
“Keep people reading books, Mum; it helps to reinforce and strengthen the indefinable moments that anchor us in the here and now.… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
There's a great feeling of relief when finishing a good book, but also a sadness. You get to know the characters so… — D Michael Hardy Copy Share Image
Find something that thrills you, and when you finish reading it for enjoyment, read it again line by line, paragraph by paragraph… — W. P. Kinsella Copy Share Image
Reading not only enlarges and challenges the mind; it also engages and exercises the brain. Today's youth who sits mesmerized by a… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
“You must go to the school or to the books or on the field because knowledge doesn't come to you, you must… — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
I want to be with my wife. Sitting on a deckchair, sipping some tea, and reading books in a retirement home, in… — Robert Pattinson Copy Share Image
I am new to superhero comics, though growing up I read Archie comics, religiously. I've been doing a lot of catching up,… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
“Like a penny over time, reading ten pages a day would compound, just like that, and create inside you a ten-million-dollar bank… — Jeff Olson Copy Share Image
My dad and my brother took me over to England a few times to train with various clubs. My brother basically ended… — Gylfi Sigurdsson Copy Share Image
At Juilliard, suddenly I was reading these great plays that could articulate the ways I was feeling in the Marine Corps, and… — Adam Driver Copy Share Image
I don't want to be in my car all day. I love getting up in the morning in Venice and walking my… — Jessica Chastain Copy Share Image
If you carry a paperback book in your back pocket, but spend more time on your hair than you do reading it,… — Dov Davidoff Copy Share Image
If you want to know why the towers of American capitalism are crumbling, I recommend reading 'The Creature from Jekyll Island' by… — Robert Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
Reading nice stuff about you is lovely, but I know it's going to be soul-destroying when you do something that everyone is… — George MacKay Copy Share Image
I knew at five years old what I wanted to do for a living. I started reading newspapers and books out loud… — Mauro Ranallo Copy Share Image
Above all, a book is a riverbank for the river of language. Language without the riverbank is only television talk - a… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
I think sports makes for good drama because it has all the same ingredients as anything worth reading or listening to or… — Jay Baruchel Copy Share Image
“You will never know the purpose of a book in your life until you read it, and you will never know which… — Robin Sacredfire Copy Share Image
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