In the old days people had far fewer channels in which to place their imaginative time. There's definitely more competition for time… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
I can say yes to some directors without even reading a script. But the first-time directors I've worked with, the scripts have… — Stellan Skarsgard Copy Share Image
Sports is remarkably cognitive. I think it's underrated just how smart it is. Actually, if I had more time, I would spend… — Tyler Cowen Copy Share Image
I kind of stumbled into this. I used to do karate and then I started reading muscle magazines. Eventually, I began training… — Dorian Yates Copy Share Image
“Suddenly the reader's eyes were filled with tears, and a loving voice whispered in his ear: -Why are you crying if everything… — Ángel González Copy Share Image
My dad is a retired Shakespeare professor, my mother a retired classicist. Suffice to say I grew up in a house full… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
I didn’t want to tell the story of myself, but someone I called myself. If you read yourself as fiction, it’s rather… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
You know, I'm a big believer in touch and digital reading, but I still think that some mixture of voice, the pen… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
We have been telling and hearing and reading war stories for millennia. Their endurance may lie in their impossibility; they can never… — Drew Gilpin Faust Copy Share Image
“To call for close reading, in fact, is to do more than insist on due attentiveness to the text. It inescapably suggests… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing. Could I have remembered, as some men… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
I tend to believe that computers are drawing kids -- and adults -- away from reading purely because they provide an alternative,… — Tim Lebbon Copy Share Image
When you are reading about a book, you focus on the main character, of course. When you have something in common with… — Marley Dias Copy Share Image
I like reading novels because it provides insight into human behavior. I am really interested in feelings and think they are what… — Claire Danes Copy Share Image
“Emma has been meaning to read more ever since she was twelve years old. I have seen a great many lists of… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Before I was born she had bought herself a new home health care book. It was large and expensive, and it was… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
People who are busy doing things - as opposed to people who are busy sitting around, like me, reading and having coffee… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
I was always an avid reader of books. My vocabulary, my English are all thanks to that reading habit. Reading keeps me… — Madhur Bhandarkar Copy Share Image
One of the reasons why I think people have gone from reading mainstream newspapers to the Internet is because they realize they're… — Robert Fisk Copy Share Image
So long as readers keep reading and my publishers keep publishing, I plan to keep on writing. I'd have to be an… — Lee Child Copy Share Image
The worst injury I've ever had was a knee in the back when I was 20 or 21, in training at Reading.… — Michail Antonio Copy Share Image
“After he had eaten, he went downstairs with the book and sandwich and lay in bed, and he was reminded of how… — Hanya Yanagihara Copy Share Image
With 'Stardust', I hope what I was doing is giving 30-year-olds and 40-year-olds and 25-year-olds and 60-year-olds a chance to get the… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Consumers get used to reading and understanding their credit card contracts, their mortgages, their check overdraft agreements, those are good things. That… — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
The only thing worse than not reading a book in the last ninety days is not reading a book in the last… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
Constant reading will pull you into a place - a mind-set, if you like the phrase - where you can write eagerly… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“So it is that a writer writes many books. In each book, he intended several urgent and vivid points, many of which… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
I think I write in order to discover on my shelf a new book that I would enjoy reading, or to see… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My works are a direct response to the typical space opera. I grew tired of always reading about how the people with… — Nathan Lowell Copy Share Image
I have always had someone in my life that I consider my reading mentor because I come from a family where reading… — Stephen McCauley Copy Share Image
Even just reading "I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore,"I got a sense of the world and the story [Macon… — Melanie Lynskey Copy Share Image
“A responsible woman is one who sees opportunities of service and responds to them quickly. In her dwells the ability to see… — Agu Jaachynma N.E Copy Share Image
“I have a household of good books, and reading tends to take for me the place of experience—or rather to become itself… — Henry James Copy Share Image
Always respond to every impulse to pray. The impulse to pray may come when you are reading or when you are battling… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I was reading this book called 'Close Encounters of the Fourth Kind.' It's really, really good if you want to believe in… — Parker Posey Copy Share Image
When I write on Twitter, I do other things: I'm working, grading, or reading, and I'm procrastinating, and I'll pop on Twitter… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be… — John Waters Copy Share Image
“Well, to me the purpose of reading, or in my case listening, is to be taken somewhere else. I want to be… — Erika Ashby Copy Share Image
I have known Farley Mowat all of my life, from reading his books as a child to becoming a close friend of… — Paul Watson Copy Share Image
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