There's so much power in allegory, to form ideas and learn lessons that you can actually take and apply to real life.… — Amandla Stenberg Copy Share Image
I do most of my reading on the train ride to and from work. But I always have a book in my… — Randa Abdel-Fattah Copy Share Image
Maybe television causes cancer, Garp thinks; but his real irritation is a writer's irritation: he knows that wherever the TV glows, there… — John Irving Copy Share Image
Literature is the safe and traditional vehicle through which we learn about the world and pass on values from on generation to… — Laurie Anderson Copy Share Image
All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they really happened and after you are finished reading one… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Summertime, and the reading is easy... Well, maybe not easy, exactly, but July and August are hardly the months to start working… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
I love graphic novels - I love reading them, I enjoyed writing them, I would love to go back and do them… — John Ridley Copy Share Image
I am so sorry to see the state of reading in such decline. I think it says something really scary and terrible… — Lee Smith Copy Share Image
My goal is to get home every day in time for dinner with the family - and then we play with the… — David Einhorn Copy Share Image
Being a best-selling author just means the world for me. Some of my happiest memories, growing up, are being at book stores… — Chris Colfer Copy Share Image
“There's a kid or some kids somewhere. I'll never know them. They're particle-puzzle-cubing right now. They might be mini-misanthropes from Moosefart, Montana.… — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
I try to make time for reading each night. In addition to the usual newspapers and magazines, I make it a priority… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
August Smith is a child telling the truth. Sometimes the truth is he has to listen to the voices of various creatures… — Matthew Rohrer Copy Share Image
Cuts in a sector are never going to be welcomed, and arts funding cut by up to 30% doesn't make nice reading.… — Roxanne Emery Copy Share Image
The court decided, based on its reading of our precedents, that the effects test of Lemon is violated whenever government action creates… — Anthony Kennedy Copy Share Image
All the time I was plowing through books on dyslexia, I found myself asking: what if, what if? What if you were… — Maggie O'Farrell Copy Share Image
One of the things that is interesting about reading conspiracy theory is that much of what folks think is conspiracy is really… — Catherine Austin Fitts Copy Share Image
I grew up on Stephen King, reading the books. I love the small town, 1950s feel to it, that nostalgia, and that… — Alexander Koch Copy Share Image
“Can there be any greater pleasure than to come across an author one enjoys and then to find they have written not… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
It's rare for me to read any fiction. I almost only read nonfiction. I don't believe in guilty pleasures, I only believe… — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
“Kay came to realize that she preferred her books to other people’s company. Reading was not a fallback position for her but… — Laura Lippman Copy Share Image
My grandfather was a newspaper publisher and his paper had all the comics in NYC, so some of my earliest memories are… — Rick Moody Copy Share Image
I like to take a long time over breakfast, and I can't bear to talk. If a guest is a breakfast talker… — Julian Fellowes Copy Share Image
True religion comes not front the teaching of men or the reading of books; it is the awakening of the spirit within… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I don't always, or even usually, read stories from beginning to end. I start anywhere and proceed in either direction. A story… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
To me, the point of a novel is to take you to a still place. You can multitask with a lot of… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
“No matter what our curriculum requires us to teach or how little class time we have, children must read a lot in… — Donalyn Miller Copy Share Image
Olive Kitteridge' is a masterpiece: The writing is so perfect you don't even notice it; the story is so vivid it's less… — Melissa Bank Copy Share Image
I will release my tax returns. And that's against - my lawyers, they say, "Don't do it." I will tell you this.… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
Yeah, that came out of a reading. It was great. It's such a fun crew to be with, and we all went… — John Leguizamo Copy Share Image
One of the problems, hanging out with me, is that I can turn any topic into a toxic horror story. I've lost… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
[Readers] who like facts will be better off with a straight history that spares them all the forelock tugging and teacup tinkling. — Rhoda Koenig Copy Share Image
“The poem was made not just to exist, but to speak—to be company. It was everything that was needed, when everything was… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
I love watching old movies, reading and having some good meals. I have a very close group of friends and family. I… — Justin Bartha Copy Share Image
I grew up in South Africa and I would look at maps and we were at the bottom of the world. There… — Charlize Theron Copy Share Image
If you want to get rich from writing, write the sort of thing that's read by persons who move their lips when… — Don Marquis Copy Share Image
I get my inspiration from looking at the world and paying attention to people and just looking closely. Also from reading. I… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
You are holding in your hands not only a book of readings and instruction for the journey, but one monastic's heart of… — Paula D'Arcy Copy Share Image
When I look back on my reading habits when I was really young, I was really drawn to stories about strong girls… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
“Books feel more intimate. And the people who go out of their way to read your writings, are initially more open to… — Robin S. Baker Copy Share Image