Avoid demonizing television, computer games, and new technologies. Electronic media may compete for kids' attention, but we're not going to get kids… — Jon Scieszka Copy Share Image
I could be standing in the supermarket, and there is a person standing down the aisle, who is reading the back of… — Bill Henson Copy Share Image
“A closed book will lie there like a dead horse. But an open book will kick, buck, and bolt through perceived adventures… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
I'm happy to see book clubs on TV. Talking about books has always been an important and invigorating part of reading them,… — Ann Packer Copy Share Image
I'm really not responsible for what mental operation people have when they're reading my books other than the ones which are created… — Edward St Aubyn Copy Share Image
My goal is to produce as rich and historical an experience for the reader as I possibly can, to the point where… — Erik Larson Copy Share Image
“Our relation to books is a shadowy space haunted by the ghosts of memory, and the real value of books lies in… — Pierre Bayard Copy Share Image
It's very dangerous to pretend to be open-minded when you're the exact opposite. I think feminists are only making it worse by… — Dave Sim Copy Share Image
She had lolled about for three years at Girton with the kind of books she could equally have read at home--Jane Austen,… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
Reading old travel books or novels set in faraway places, spinning globes, unfolding maps, playing world music, eating in ethnic restaurants, meeting… — Phil Cousineau Copy Share Image
I really don't want somebody writing something positive about me if they don't believe in it. I'd rather somebody write something real… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
At the dawn of the 21st century, where knowledge is literally power, where it unlocks the gates of opportunity and success, we… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Even when reading is impossible, the presence of books acquired (by passionate devotion to them) produces such an ecstasy that the buying… — A. Edward Newton Copy Share Image
I would be writing and trying to write like Joan Didion. Or if I was reading Raymond Carver. You know, strong stylists.… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
It's probably unprecedented for a filmmaker simply to take the writers' script and treat it as the instructions on the package. What… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
When I cook with my son, I might chop vegetables and have fun with different shapes. Cooking is a way to teach… — Emeril Lagasse Copy Share Image
As time goes by the memories of sitting on the edge of a bed and reading aloud with your kid are going… — Gary Ross Copy Share Image
“People cannot stand the saddest truth I know about the very nature of reading and writing imaginative literature, which is that poetry… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
“But there was so much todo: cigarettes to smoke, sex to have, swings to swing on. I'll have more time for reading… — John Green Copy Share Image
It may be enough to study history in all its nuance and ambiguity for its own sake. But there is no country… — Colm Toibin Copy Share Image
A great variety of reading confuses and does not teach. It makes the student like a man who dwells everywhere and, therefore,… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
I have had moments where I've had mental-health issues and I've felt like yoga and meditating and reading these Buddhist self-help books… — Mike White Copy Share Image
The importance and influence of books on me has been cumulative: the result of hearing and reading lots of stories about interesting… — Louise Brown Copy Share Image
There is no difference between me and Netanyahu in reading the threat of Iran. There is no daylight between us on this… — Isaac Herzog Copy Share Image
“Reading is a time machine that allows you to acquire wisdom from the past and to analyze and imagine another person’s vision… — Joshua Rogers Copy Share Image
“But the library - especially one so vast - is no mere cabinet of curiosities; it's a world, complete and uncompleteable, and… — Matthew Battles Copy Share Image
I also did some jail time a few years ago. Spent a whole summer in jail reading books. I pumped a ton… — Tommy Lee Copy Share Image
To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worth while. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
There are those who, while reading a book, recall, compare, conjure up emotions from other, previous readings. This is one of the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I had the advantage of reading the book, and when the script was first submitted to me, it was just another gangster… — Edward G. Robinson Copy Share Image
I'm still reading some scripts and I model as well, so I'm still doing that. But I don't want to do like… — Kim Smith Copy Share Image
Oftentimes you read scripts, and you get to one and you think, 'OK, is this good, or is this just better than… — Sissy Spacek Copy Share Image
When I was 12, I was probably writing 'Twilight' fanfic, and somewhere someone was reading it being like, 'This is really disturbing.' — Rachel Sennott Copy Share Image
My mother was an English teacher and she imbibed the habit of reading, and encouraged me to participate in debates and the… — Divya Khosla Kumar Copy Share Image
If I'm reading something and a word pops up, or I just catch it, I try to mark it off and then,… — Robert Barry Copy Share Image
I am not unique in my elegiac sadness at watching reading die, in the era that celebrates Stephen King and J.K. Rowling… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
Give the child good books, then let it alone! Don't plough and harrow its brain, or stretch it on Procrustes-beds of standardization,… — Laura E. Richards Copy Share Image
I go to bed early and rise late and feel as if I have hardly slept, probably because I have been reading… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I am working on a technical paper on compassion. So I am reading everything I can on the subject, including my own… — Joan Halifax Copy Share Image
Being an immigrant mother can be hard, but being a poor immigrant mother is much harder. You don't generally get to sit… — Pamela Druckerman Copy Share Image
