“The more I read the more I fought against the assumption that literature is for the minority - of a particular education… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Reading is dreaming. Reading is entering a world of imagination shared between reader and author. Reading is getting beyond the words to… — Paul Kropp Copy Share Image
I don't feel like literature has the power to alienate. I think that's something people feel if they don't connect with a… — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
I didn't want to be an author; I wanted to be a scientist. Not that I didn't love literature, but I couldn't… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
So I have loitered my life away, reading books, looking at pictures, going to plays, hearing, thinking, writing on what pleased me… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
I started reading DC stuff much later in my life. You realize that there's a huge difference between the Marvel universe and… — David Harewood Copy Share Image
“God didn't call me to kill me. He called me to glory and virtue. My body has dropped on His feet to… — Patience Johnson Copy Share Image
I don't watch teams other than Dodgers on TV and I watch the Dodgers games sparingly. I like to refresh my mind… — Vin Scully Copy Share Image
Read the Bible daily. Make it part of your everyday business to read and meditate on some portion of God's Word. Gather… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
There are friends with whom we share neither interests nor any particular experiences, friends with whom we never correspond, whom we seldom… — Stanislaw Lem Copy Share Image
I respect journalism. I was always very aware of journalism from a very broad point of view, but I'd say my baptism… — James D'arcy Copy Share Image
You know, this is a very strange phenomenon. I keep reading that in American newspapers, and I keep reading extensive speculations. I… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
Since my first discussions of ecological problems with Professor John Day around 1950 and since reading Konrad Lorenz's "King Solomon's Ring," I… — Allan McLeod Cormack Copy Share Image
An essential part of any successful action on the part of the United States is an understanding on the part of the… — George C. Marshall Copy Share Image
The good reviews that people have told me about through the years haven't really helped me do my job. So it's kind… — Val Kilmer Copy Share Image
The fame of a battlefield grows with its years; Napoleon storming the Bridge of Lodi, and Wellington surveying the towers of Salamanca,… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I love bingeing. 'The Wire' was my first binge, and the thing about bingeing is, when you are doing four or five… — James L. Brooks Copy Share Image
I think of reading like a balanced diet; if your sentences are too baggy, too baroque, cut back on fatty Foster Wallace,… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
I like to think about the bestseller list as, "This is the medicine cabinet of a very sick country." Let me look… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
Margarine? That's not food. I Can't Believe It's Not Butter? I can. If you're planning on using margarine in anything, you can… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
When I'm reading material, if I'm a little bit afraid of a part and I'm willing to admit that to myself, then… — Jack Lemmon Copy Share Image
Promiscuous reading is necessary to the constituting of human nature. The attempt to keep out evil doctrine by licensing is like the… — John Milton Copy Share Image
The reason books get banned, but movies can do almost anything is because the novel is more powerful than a movie. The… — Carolyn Mackler Copy Share Image
I don't know if anyone can do a reading for other people, but I do think that we all have an intuition… — Tyler Henry Copy Share Image
I do leisure reading but I don't get to do it like, at one in the morning. When I getting up at… — Susan Rice Copy Share Image
I remember reading an interview that Anthony Hopkins had given about how he developed Hannibal Lecter. He said he just looked in… — Julie Benz Copy Share Image
The open secret of many Bible believing Churches is that a vanishingly small percentage of those talking about prayer and Bible reading… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
“Timing is always off. Someone is always late, always lost, always looking back to the start of a reality that they didn't… — Leigh Hershkovich Copy Share Image
I am terrible at doing nothing. I'm not brilliant at doing one thing at a time, either. Ideally, I would fill out… — Victoria Coren Mitchell Copy Share Image
I first told the idea to an editor I had met who, after reading one of my novels for adults that was… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
It took me nine years to get through the fourth grade. When I got into television commercials, I had to take a… — Rocky Graziano Copy Share Image
“Your words are powerful so what you say goes a long way to either establish or destroy you; this is why you… — Jaachynma N.E. Agu Copy Share Image
When I was a little boy in Worcestershire reading history books I never thought I should have to interfere between a king… — Stanley Baldwin Copy Share Image
Since any reasonable person would choose a Mac over a PC, Apple's market share provides us with an accurate reading of the… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
In New York, you are forced into having very public lives and observing all types of people, what they sound like, what… — Nick Kroll Copy Share Image
“If you wish to draw profit, read with humility, simplicity, and faith, and never with the design of gaining a reputation for… — Thomas à Kempis Copy Share Image
We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading. Knowing the contents of a few works of literature is… — B. F. Skinner Copy Share Image
The danger of the blogosphere is reading only those you agree with. While there are right-wing blogs that are entertaining freak shows,… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
As the art of reading (after a certain stage in one's education) isthe art of skipping, so the art of being wise… — William James Copy Share Image
You learn to write by writing, and by reading and thinking about how writers have created their characters and invented their stories.… — Jean M. Auel Copy Share Image
