I'm always reading. I have four books on my nightstand right now. The same is true with writing, I tend to work… — Colette Freedman Copy Share Image
It is by no means certain that we advance our philosophical quest by reading Plato or Aristotle. It may increase our knowledge… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
The public schools I attended were dominated by athletics and rarely inspiring intellectually, but I enjoyed a small circle of interesting friends… — Harold E. Varmus Copy Share Image
“You know what pulp is, Mr. Tallis? It's the flesh of a luscious fruit, mashed down into an incredible, half liquid richness.… — Mike Carey & Peter Gross Copy Share Image
“That’s why I read, as a stranger, My being as if it were pages. Not knowing what will come And forgetting what… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“Fiction should be a place of lollipops and escape. Real life is depressing enough--I, for one, don't want to read about make… — Nicole Christie Copy Share Image
“News invented the modern world as much as the modern world invented news. Finding out what was going on elsewhere in the… — Lawrence Kleep Copy Share Image
Reading will put you into the minds and hearts of others. It might help you understand why other people do what they… — Scott Simon Copy Share Image
Now the things done may not be evil or improper; they in fact may be good and godly (such as reading the… — Watchman Nee Copy Share Image
“If it is true that there are books written to escape from the present moment, and its meanness and its sordidity, it… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
It feels great to wake up feeling healthy, awake and alert. I love waking up in the morning, taking a deep breath,… — Saif Ali Khan Copy Share Image
My mother was good at reading books, making cinnamon biscuits, and coloring in a coloring book. Also she was a good eater… — Haven Kimmel 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
Among those today who believe that modern poetry must do without rhyme or metre, there is an assumption that the alternative to… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
Learning to read the Bible in the light of the times in which it was written is critical. Reading it uncritically, without… — Adam Hamilton Copy Share Image
“I love books. I adore everything about them. I love the feel of the pages on my fingertips. They are light enough… — Nnedi Okorafor Copy Share Image
I love reading people. I really enjoy watching, observing, and being able to figure out a person, the reason they wore that… — Rihanna Copy Share Image
“Each book was like an underwater cave, and when I rose again to the surface, I was pale and grumpy, resentful of… — Mary Stewart Atwell Copy Share Image
'Just looking at pictures' used to be considered cheating. No longer. The graphic novel is booming. Comics, heavily illustrated texts, books with… — Jon Scieszka Copy Share Image
It's been wonderful to hear so many excited and intelligent responses to 'Beautiful Children,' not only from reviewers but also from the… — Charles Bock Copy Share Image
I wish the English still possessed a shred of the old sense of humour which Puritanism, and dyspepsia, and newspaper reading, and… — Norman Douglas Copy Share Image
Reading off a Teleprompter is an easy skill to do passably well and a difficult skill to do very well. I still… — Chris Hayes Copy Share Image
Canada has always been a great place for literature. It's strong and growing stronger, and there will always be reading, and there… — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
I became interested, through reading the works of some novelist, in Egyptology and made a study of the pyramids. It was just… — Charles M. Schwab Copy Share Image
“In the end he read everything that came his way, and he did not have a favorite author but rather many who… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
I merely say that all reading for pleasure is escape, whether it be Greek, mathematics, astronomy, Benedetto Croce, or The Diary of… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
I understand that more and more children under the age of 10 go to bed without having something read to them or… — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
I love anything to do with cooking, from watching the Food Network to reading recipe books by Gordon Ramsay, Jamie Oliver and… — Jourdan Dunn Copy Share Image
The truth of the matter is that about 99 percent of teaching is making the students feel interestedin the material. Then the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Reading is not just about learning to recognize and pronounce words, but also about how to hear and understand them... It is… — Marcus Borg Copy Share Image
I have an elaborate wind-down ritual, which combines reading, ESPN, movies, and jamming the blues on my keyboard. There's still a part… — Tohoru Masamune Copy Share Image
I have a passion for teaching kids to become readers, to become comfortable with a book, not daunted. Books shouldn't be daunting,… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
I think the first little jolt I got was reading Gerard Manley Hopkins - I liked other poems... but Hopkins was kind… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
Nothing can hide from me the conviction that an immortal soul needs for its sustenance something more than visiting, and gardening, and… — Thomas Wentworth Higginson Copy Share Image
Information is not knowledge, and knowledge is not wisdom. Reading - even browsing - an old book can yield sustenance denied by… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
It was as though I had been dying of thirst and the librarian had handed me a five gallon bucket of water.… — Gary Paulsen Copy Share Image
I think the idea of signing on to a sort of very commercial show and a show that is as expansive as… — Jonathan Bailey Copy Share Image
When you watch a film, a huge part of it is the music and the coloring and everything that comes together to… — Maika Monroe Copy Share Image
One rainy Sunday when I was in the third grade, I picked up a book to look at the pictures and discovered… — Beverly Cleary Copy Share Image
It amazes me that filmmakers will still film, and audiences will still watch, relationships so bankrupt of human feeling that the characters… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
