I was reading a lot of Thomas Jefferson at the time, and Jefferson said that every 20 years, if one party has… — Dennis Hopper Copy Share Image
All the reading in the world cannot immunize you from the devastating effects of psychopaths. Everyone, including the experts, can be taken… — Robert D. Hare Copy Share Image
I'm getting ready to write a piece now, and it's been six months thinking about it, changing the instrumentation, changing the name,… — John Zorn Copy Share Image
Considering Adrian had once gotten bored while reading while reading a particularly long menu, I had a hard time imagining he'd read… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
Reading a newspaper is like reading someone's letters, as opposed to a biography or a history. The writer really does not know… — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
I remember reading once that some fellows use language to conceal thought; but it's been my experience that a good many more… — George Horace Lorimer Copy Share Image
You can try reading books that will help you be a leader, like Marshall Rosenberg and Thich Nhat Hanh. Be very humble… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
I go back and forth between input phases where I'm reading a lot or trying to get out and explore the world… — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
If a reviewer is beating me up, I just say, 'Oh well, my writing is not to his or her taste.' And… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
I do not concern myself much with reading long commentary volumes designed to enlarge at length upon that which is found in… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
“It was a shocking thing to say and I knew it was a shocking thing to say. But no one has the… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
As far as superhero stories, what's appealing is of course that aspect of wish fulfillment. I mean, you start out reading them… — John Ridley Copy Share Image
“To engage the written word means to follow a line of thought, which requires considerable powers of classifying, inference-making and reasoning. It… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
Q: What’s hard for you? A: Mostly I straddle reality and the imagination. My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
A high-ranking Syrian official in DC laughed when he heard I was reading Michel Aflaq and writing this book. He said, "Let… — Elliott Colla Copy Share Image
“You should've thought of that before becoming a fireman." "Thought!" he said. "Was I given a choice? I was raised to think… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
We book people are always preaching about reading aloud to children, but unless you do, you can't realize how it enriches family… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
Sookie, what have we done? And to whom?" "I killed a chicken. And I cooked it." "Sookie, Sookie. My bullshit meter is… — Charlaine Harris Copy Share Image
I literally grew up reading the papers about my existence... that I was a love child. To a kid, it doesn't make… — Masaba Gupta Copy Share Image
Reading student papers, blue books, etc., a form of torture ... a matter of rubbing an iron file over one's teeth, or… — Newton Arvin Copy Share Image
“He let the hours go by lost in the magic of words, shedding his skin and his name, feeling like another person.… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
The art of fiction is one of constant seduction. You must persuade the reader on page 1 to start reading - on… — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
Before you take your address, while you're still reading the putt, imagine the ball tracking on the line you've chosen and falling… — Ernie Els Copy Share Image
With my writing, I generally just pretend that no one's reading it. I allow myself that delusion so that I can write… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
I feel guilty if I'm not reading books, but I read scripts of movies or things that I know I'm committed to… — Jim Gaffigan Copy Share Image
“Why do you want a new truth when you do not practice what you already know? Far better to read a few… — Eknath Easwaran Copy Share Image
I love looking at pictures of nebulas and reading articles about black holes and dark matter - I always tie it into… — Selah Louise Marley Copy Share Image
I'm constantly reading and trying to enlighten myself to how the world works in its silent ways to make everything seem normal… — Jenny Hval Copy Share Image
“It seemed any young woman at odds with her place in life--be she a genteel lady or a serving girl--might find a… — Tessa Dare Copy Share Image
“And so, there in the penitentiary, Juan's education began. He didn't want to be a puto weakling, so he worked hard at… — Victor Villaseñor Copy Share Image
My mom was in education, and I remember reading in one of her books about multiple intelligences - this whole theory about… — Lynn Shelton Copy Share Image
“But at some point Tengo noticed that returning to reality from the world of a novel was not as devastating a blow… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Louis Braille created the code of raised dots for reading and writing that bears his name and brings literacy, independence, and productivity… — Bob Ney Copy Share Image
I'm reading Our Ecstatic Days, by Steve Erickson. It's an extraordinary journey and the most exciting thing I've found since The Master… — Sienna Guillory Copy Share Image
Reading was my only escape from reality. Through books, I could be whoever I wanted. I could fall in love with the… — Teresa Mummert Copy Share Image
By reading Huckleberry Finn I felt I was able to justify my act of going into the mountain forest at night and… — Kenzaburo Oe Copy Share Image
I'm against people reading statements. When you read statement, I automatically take it as though you can't talk, and it's not real. — Terry Bradshaw Copy Share Image
I pluck up the good lissome herbs of sentences by pruning, eat them by reading, digest them by musing, and lay them… — Elizabeth I Copy Share Image
There's no architect who doesn't want to build a library - and I am no different. With so much scrutiny now attached… — Annabelle Selldorf Copy Share Image
The book-worm wraps himself up in his web of verbal generalities, and sees only the glimmering shadows of things reflected from the… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
