He’s not your typical prince, more like a square peg in a round hole, kind of like me. He’s the sort of… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
If a book told you something when you were fifteen, it will tell you it again when you're fifty, though you may… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
No one on earth is so boring and insignificant that he or she is not worth writing or reading about...One thing's for… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
[I] browsed far outside science in my reading and attended public lectures - Bertrand Russell, H. G. Wells, Huxley, and Shaw being… — Raymond Cattell Copy Share Image
I used to love reading when I was little, and then it became difficult and I didn't understand why. I thought, what… — Jewel Copy Share Image
The scanning of barcodes, or the reading of RFID transponders, generates data that is used in a software package to provide management… — Mike Marsh Copy Share Image
My mum was a children's librarian, so I spent a lot of time in the library. My reading life, because of my… — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
I was in awe sometimes listening to Mick Taylor . Everything was there in his playing - the melodic touch, a beautiful… — Keith Richards Copy Share Image
My best teachers, the teachers who had the deepest effect on my reading, combined the two. They would mix required reading with… — Gene Luen Yang Copy Share Image
“A person who does not read cannot think. He may have good mental processes, but he has nothing to think about. You… — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
You liked the freshness of it, c'mon try it" and I said "oh God, I read it three of four times" and… — Jeff Bridges Copy Share Image
Sometimes Joyce is hilarious. I read Finnegans Wake after graduate school and I had the great good fortune of reading it without… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
I learned that a television show is not a collaboration. You give your 180 percent, but you do not question the show-runners.… — Illeana Douglas Copy Share Image
My historical reading of the situation is that these great monolithic empires developed, Rome, Turkey, and so forth, and they always break… — Timothy Leary Copy Share Image
“Far from being writers—founders of their own place, heirs of the peasants of earlier ages now working on the soil of language,… — Michel de Certeau Copy Share Image
With this book in my hands, reading aloud to my friends, questioning them, explaining to them, I was made clearly to understand… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
What did it for me was a blurb on the back of a book I was reading. The blurber wrote - I… — Debra Hamel Copy Share Image
Writing that's native to the web is different in ways that are crucial but subtle enough that you can miss them if… — Jacob Weisberg Copy Share Image
You know what I find most shocking about the Vel'd'Hiv?" Guillaume said. "Its code name." I knew the answer to that, thanks… — Tatiana de Rosnay Copy Share Image
I think reading Shakespeare's plays when I was young was extremely important. He had the ability to make utter strangers come alive. — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
We want a book to be a book. We'll have all the interactive bells and whistles but our intent is to engage… — LeVar Burton Copy Share Image
“(advice to his children) Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of… — William Penn Copy Share Image
Teachers have almost stopped reading aloud to their classes because of the pressure of testing and tight curricula, but it is the… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
It's a healthy thing to get some bad criticism. I'm still here and I'm fine, but I'd be lying if I said… — Keeley Hawes Copy Share Image
You must often make erasures if you mean to write what is worthy of being read a second time; and don't labor… — Horace Copy Share Image
The great thing about literature is that you're making up your own interpretation of the character anyway. Also, you're given basically a… — Jamie Campbell Bower Copy Share Image
I should as soon think of swimming across Charles River, when I wish to go to Boston, as of reading all my… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“If writing novels - and reading them - have any redeeming social value, it's probably that they force you to imagine what… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I started off believing all men were equal. I now know that's the most unlikely thing ever to have been. . .by… — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
I've been teaching classes on memoirs since 1986, and I've been reading them all my life, and I think that I would… — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
First, a confession: I liked 'The Da Vinci Code.' This news is even more of a surprise to me than it might… — Sarah Weinman Copy Share Image
I often tell my clients they should do at least 30 percent of all their reading outside their own field. This will… — Roger Ailes Copy Share Image
My parents gave me that gift of "reading is a good thing." I mean my mother was afraid of everything. But she… — Judy Blume Copy Share Image
When you've grown sick of reading and bug-eyed from watching TV, when your friends are all visited out, no words can adequately… — Lance Loud Copy Share Image
My father loved biographies. He loved the true tales of interesting people that were shaping our culture. I get why he dug… — Abigail Spencer Copy Share Image
Never use a verb other than "said" to carry dialogue... I once noticed Mary McCarthy ending a line of dialogue with "she… — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
There is a total incompatibility between the joy of reading, a vagabond experience, and the experience of reading in order to answer… — Rubem Alves Copy Share Image
“I think imagination is one of the greatest blessings of life, and while one can lose oneself in a book one can… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Whenever I am with a group of kids, I always ask them, 'How many of you know about the summer reading program… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
Be sure then to read no mean books. Shun the spawn of the press on the gossip of the hour. Do not… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image