My writing is a combination of three elements. The first is travel: not travel like a tourist, but travel as exploration. The… — Ryszard Kapuscinski Copy Share Image
From some dilatory reading in the early 1960s, I knew enough about viruses and their association with tumors in animals to understand… — Harold E. Varmus Copy Share Image
God has condescended to become an author, and yet people will not read his writings. There are very few that ever gave… — George Whitefield Copy Share Image
I tend to follow a scattershot approach to reading a lot of very diverse subjects interest me, and I'm quite happy to… — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image
In an article on Bunyan lately published in the "Contemporary Review" - the only article on the subject worth reading on the… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“Ever since I could read, I’ve wanted to write a book. I never thought I had anything to write about. Maybe you… — Daniel Willey Copy Share Image
I still love when any editor today says, "it's so cool what you do", or "you inspired me". All these little things… — Garance Dore Copy Share Image
“Don't look at me like that," said Ruza. "Like what?" "Like I'm a beautiful book you're about to open and plunder with… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
“Sections in the bookstore - Books You Haven't Read - Books You Needn't Read - Books Made for Purposes Other Than Reading… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“Side by side with the human race there runs another race of beings, the inhuman ones, the race of artists who, goaded… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
The very function of creativity, of the elaboration of the human condition only enlarges the human spirit and, I mean, as a… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
We keep quiet about what we read. Our enjoyment of a book remains a jealously guarded secret. Perhaps because there's no need… — Daniel Pennac Copy Share Image
Honestly, before I started working at the comic shop, I was not a huge comic reader. I grew up reading 'Archie' and… — Kate Leth Copy Share Image
“Crossing my arms over my chest, I said, a little too heartily, “So this is the library.” There certainly couldn’t be any… — Lauren Willig Copy Share Image
“It's not a silly pursuit to read beyond what's handed to you, to seek out new voices and leap over the usual… — Nova Ren Suma Copy Share Image
There are many possible interpretations of what it means to create dangerously, and Albert Camus, like the poet Osip Mandelstam, suggests that… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
You can look in a book of wrong and learn more right. If you're reading a book that has all wrong in… — Rakim Copy Share Image
In Victorian England, people were told they should discourage their wives from reading because it would lead them into all sorts of… — Marion Bailey Copy Share Image
My elementary school teachers were big on pushing kids to read. If you read a certain amount of books, they would provide… — Rey Mysterio Copy Share Image
Even worse than seeing women's privacy violated on social media is reading the accompanying comments that show such a lack of empathy. — Emma Watson Copy Share Image
In Among the White Moon Faces, I wrote about my desire to be a writer as rooted in my obsessive hours of… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
Fairy tales opened up a door into my imagination - they don't conform to the reality that's around you as a child.… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
There are quite a number of people in the reading-room; but one is not aware of them. They are inside the books.… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
As I got into my teens, I started reading better books, beginning with the Beats and then the hippie writers, people like… — Stephen Gaghan Copy Share Image
No matter where I am in the world or what's on my schedule, I begin each day by reading an inspirational book… — Doreen Virtue Copy Share Image
“Despite all of my moaning and groaning about the romantic disasters that continued to befall me, I knew if I were ever… — Joyce Elbert Copy Share Image
Public swimming pools, recreation centers, summer reading programs, youth jobs programs - they are all shutting their doors. And they are all… — Darell Hammond Copy Share Image
Discovering various economists, economic works, reading financial periodicals and keeping up on current events in geopolitics and economics around the world opened… — Kurt Bills Copy Share Image
People are starting to refer to 'The Giver' as a classic, but I don't know how that is defined. But if it… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
Poker is really about reading people. What happens when you bluff? What does it look like when the other guy bluffs? Does… — Phil Hellmuth Copy Share Image
I'm never ashamed to read a book twice or as many times as I want. We never expect to drink a glass… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
I've given up reading the papers. Since the world's so obviously bent on killing itself, I decided months ago to sit back… — Sarah Waters Copy Share Image
When famous people are nice to me, it feels good, so I'm happy to hang out with them. It's better than being… — Moby Copy Share Image
As you go down the rabbit hole of reading into our history, you realize that there are so many things that history… — Usher Copy Share Image
The most important habit is solitude, quiet time. People who enter their day by taking 45 minutes or an hour for themselves… — Ken Blanchard Copy Share Image
Instead of becoming a great shikari, as my mother and stepfather might have wished, I had become an incurable bookworm and was… — Ruskin Bond Copy Share Image
When you read with your child, you show them that reading is important, but you also show them they're important - that… — Laura Bush Copy Share Image
I read everything by Ian McEwan, he is so elegant. I love reading anything about Shakespeare, too. He is my first love.… — Kate Fleetwood Copy Share Image
The reading of the song is vital. The written word is first always . . . first. Not belittling the music, but… — Frank Sinatra Copy Share Image
I just... my childhood seems, when I look back, to be largely composed of reading, lying on the bed. I mean, my… — Helen Garner Copy Share Image
