I didn't start working on children's books until I got a job at a book warehouse on the children's floor. When I… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
After I left the convent, for 15 years I was worn out with religion, I wanted nothing whatever to do with it.… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
The principal object of your reading should be for the acquisition of useful knowledge , and the strengthening, refining, and ennobling of… — Grenville Kleiser Copy Share Image
Expose yourself to as much as possible. Attend conferences no one else is attending. Read books no one else is reading. Talk… — Ben Casnocha Copy Share Image
Robert De Niro taught me how to listen, and how to be part of the conversation. It's not just about reading your… — Cathy Moriarty Copy Share Image
“Sometimes a book that appeared dull or off-putting would somehow still draw you in, call to you, and when you finally embarked… — Liam W. Russell Copy Share Image
“Life is limited, but by writing, and reading, we can live in different worlds, get inside the skins and minds of other… — Joan Lingard Copy Share Image
What you do daily determines what you become permanently. Pray daily. Read daily. Think daily. Plan daily. Act daily. Smile daily. Hope… — Africa Child Copy Share Image
“I never could read Foucault. I find philosophy tedious. All of my knowledge comes from reading novels and some history. I read… — Michael Gira Copy Share Image
“Should he give free reign to his desires, the bibliomaniac can ruin his life along with the lives of his loved ones.… — Mikita Brottman Copy Share Image
“Of those of us who comprise the real clan of the book, who read not to judge the reading of others but… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
I don't spend as much time drawing as I do writing and reading. That's the really work-intensive part. And by the time… — Kate Beaton Copy Share Image
“After one postmodern doorstopper, you’ve read them all. Pynchon got there first, really… and it was good… but most of the others… — A.D. Aliwat Copy Share Image
“ Books can change one's life.. as "tools" for the tradesmen, motivate the mind to achieve the impossible, mould one's Character, personality.… — Henries Charriere Copy Share Image
“Without books we should very likely be a still-primitive people living in the shadow of traditions that faded with years until only… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
“My parents placed a high value on reading, starting with the King James Bible, and one whole wall of our living room… — John R. Erickson Copy Share Image
One of my favorite authors is Robert Cormier. He was a devout Catholic and a very nice man, which might not be… — Sara Zarr Copy Share Image
I'm a private person, a shy person. Sometimes, reading for eleven hours straight feels to me like the perfect way to spend… — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
I am attracted to fantastic writing, and fantastic reading, of course. But I think things that we call fantastic may be real,… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“The words that strike us are those that awake an echo in a zone we have already made our own—the place where… — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
My routine consists of being awake by 6 A.M., reading and educating myself more and more on the Bible followed by nine… — Manny Ramirez Copy Share Image
Children learn to read by being in the presence of books. The love of knowledge comes with reading and grows upon it.… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
“How would it be after the last sentence? The last sentence he had always feared and from the middle of a book,… — Pascal Mercier Copy Share Image
To solve the drug problem, we have to start at the root - first grade. If a boy has all the toys… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Life is hard, and a lot of people come home tired from work. If they're gonna spend half an hour reading, they… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
Fracking is our biggest enemy right now in the U.S. Actually, not just in the U.S., because all our water systems are… — Ian Somerhalder Copy Share Image
Now that I was compelled to think about it, reading was something that just came to me, as learning to fasten the… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
Protect your voice and your vision. If going on the Internet and reading Internet reviews is bad for you, don’t do it.… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“Keep reading! Keep travelling! Keep thinking! And finally you will be there, in the Land of Wisdom where the mind has the… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
“But I’ve developed a great reputation for wisdom by ordering more books than I ever had time to read, and reading more… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“He paused, then added, "Some of them are working very hard indeed." "What are they doing?" "My boy!" he said, eyebrows raised.… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man,… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Reading well makes children more interesting both to themselves and others, a process in which they will develop a sense of being… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
I've always loved reading diaries and memoirs and just getting a sense of different personalities and what made them tick as individuals. — Margaret MacMillan Copy Share Image
I was reading books about the Nazi presence not only in Argentina, but all over Latin America, and time and after time… — Lucia Puenzo Copy Share Image
“To be the best, you have to be willing to do what nobody does. And today, if nobody reads and nobody works… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
Most of the time what I am reading is leadership books, books on the mind and a lot of deep stuff about… — Tobias Harris Copy Share Image
After all my years of playing soldiers, and then of reading History, I have almost a mania to be in the East,… — Wilfred Owen Copy Share Image
Happiness is not always reading the same page in the same book. Sometimes it is just wanting to hold the others book… — Faye Hall Copy Share Image
I think I write what's interesting to me, and so if I'm reading I like to have a very thorough idea of… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
