I often have trouble falling asleep at night, so when I'm lying in bed I think up stories. That's where I do… — Linda Sue Park Copy Share Image
I always think of my characters as alive human beings and try to generate questions around their life and understand their socio-political… — Abhishek Banerjee Copy Share Image
I, of course, wanted to do something with Drew Barrymore. Please. So we were reading scripts back and forth and then we… — Jimmy Fallon Copy Share Image
I've met so many people who have come up to tell me their personal stories, and a lot of them express the… — Lizzie Velasquez Copy Share Image
The savage repression of blacks, which can be estimated by reading the obituary columns of the nation's dailies, Fred Hampton, etc., has… — George Jackson Copy Share Image
Just as you wouldn't leave the house without taking a shower, you shouldn't start the day without at least 10 minutes of… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Reading or written language is a cultural invention that necessitated totally new connections among structures in the human brain underlying language, perception,… — Maryanne Wolf Copy Share Image
Learning from books is so empowering - whether it be from history, a novel or a poem. When you come away from… — Lisa Lucas Copy Share Image
I just think that the world of workshops - I've written a poem that is a parody of workshop talk, I've written… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
“As Stephen Krashen and Joanne Ujiie (2005) assert, “Many people are fearful that if children engage in ‘light reading,' if they read… — Donalyn Miller Copy Share Image
You could probably go all the way back to the first books. I bet people said 'why should you read when you… — Mark Zuckerberg Copy Share Image
If I'm reading something I happen to know and gets it wrong, I just don't trust the book any more. What I… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“Once upon a time in the dead of winter in the Dakota Territory, Theodore Roosevelt took off in a makeshift boat down… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
I can't stay mad very long. I get grumpy when I read a bad review. I say, 'How could he say that… — Julian Lennon Copy Share Image
The same plasticity that allows us to form a reading circuit to begin with, and short-circuit the development of deep reading if… — Maryanne Wolf Copy Share Image
“Why should sinners prosper and sins suffer? It is ignorant; don't think that the poorer you are the quicker you will see… — Patience Johnson Copy Share Image
I go through stages with all kinds of stuff. There'll be a couple of months where I'm reading, you know, like, fiction… — Syd Copy Share Image
I have written 240 books on a wide variety of topics. . . . Some of it I based on education I… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“I have no cause to love Mr. Norrell- far from it. But I know this about him: he is a magician first… — Susanna Clarke Copy Share Image
When I wrote my first album, I was reading Joseph Campbell - he's this philosopher who writes about mythology. That inspired the… — MO Copy Share Image
I never read the life of any important person without discovering that he knew more and could do more than I could… — J. B. Priestley Copy Share Image
“In the books I find the thrum of everything unsayable. The characters weep the way I want to, love the way I… — Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich Copy Share Image
You have to give kids things they're interested in reading. That's what teachers do who are engaged in what their students want. — Jenna Bush Copy Share Image
I'm incredibly lazy. On a day off, I'm more likely to be sitting on our sofa reading a book than out and… — Phoebe Fox Copy Share Image
The last loan spell, at Reading, was the one I enjoyed most. The manager, Jose Gomes, put a lot of faith in… — Emiliano Martinez Copy Share Image
When I am working on a painting, everything that I am thinking about at the time - be it current events, the… — Ali Banisadr Copy Share Image
Reading, like writing, is a creative act. If readers only bring a narrow range of themselves to the book, then they'll only… — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
“What traitors books can be! you think they're backing you up, and they turn on you. Others can use them, too, and… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
He that reads and grows no wiser seldom suspects his own deficiency, but complains of hard words and obscure sentences, and asks… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I love reading - inspirational books, leadership books, biographies. I exercise a lot and put on my audio book. Even If you… — Robin Sharma Copy Share Image
Do people choose the art that inspires them — do they think it over, decide they might prefer the fabulous to the… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
My behavior is nonetheless, deplorable. Unfortunately, I'm quite prone to such bouts of deplorability--take for instance, my fondness for reading books at… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
“I look at words as if they were entities, sacred beings. There are words to which I tip my hat when I… — William Luce Copy Share Image
“Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody can read." [As quoted… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Even as a child, I had walked down streets reading novels, waiting for my feet to get stuck in tar as I… — Alissa Quart Copy Share Image
Fortunately, I don't spend too much time reading or worrying about what people have to say, but the goal for me throughout… — Landon Donovan 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
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
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
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
![“Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody can read." [As quoted in Literary Censorship in England (in Current Opinion , Vol. 55, No. 5, November 1913)]” quote by George Bernard Shaw](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5e8/george-bernard-shaw-68_books_censorship-ends-in-logical-completeness_2466063.png)
![“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)
