Are you unselfish? That is the question. If you are, you will be perfect without reading a single religious book, without going… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I think my brain is full of collisions and that's how I like to read and process information. I'm always comparing things… — Victoria Chang Copy Share Image
I know a lot of writers who tell me they 'always' knew how to read. They can't remember a time before reading.… — Kameron Hurley Copy Share Image
“Doom is nigh. I am in acute distress, desperately trying to coax sleep, opening my eyes every few seconds to check their… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
The BBC's aim, along with schools, libraries and literacy groups, to involve more people in reading groups is an exciting idea and… — Tessa Jowell Copy Share Image
I think you learn how to write by reading an enormous amount, so then your memory is stocked with various constructions, various… — Lucy Hughes-Hallett Copy Share Image
“King Arthur's Knights had been the first book Arthur had read late at night under the covers with a torch...it was he… — Charlie Lovett Copy Share Image
Grandma told me Mama was once caught by the Principal for writing in the front of her book, "In Case of Fire,… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
Husband and I are preparing ourselves for the new Doctor by watching - well, mainly rewatching - Mr. Capaldi’s back catalogue, we’ve… — Jacqueline Rayner Copy Share Image
“One thinks of nothing,’ he continued; ‘the hours slip by. Motionless we traverse countries we fancy we see, and your thought, blinding… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“Life can't ever really defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death--… — Cara Swann Copy Share Image
I'm open to reading almost anything - fiction, nonfiction - as long as I know from the first sentence or two that… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
Common sense should tell us that reading is the ultimate weapon--destroying ignorance, poverty and despair before they can destroyus. A nation that… — Jim Trelease Copy Share Image
Reading honest literature makes you love the world. Knowledge and understanding are love. Reading educates our feelings and enhances our sympathy. When… — John Dufresne Copy Share Image
As for the differences between audio and the printed page, the sonic aspects of poetry are important to me. I read my… — Rae Armantrout Copy Share Image
I had been emotionally affected by the story [of Steven King], on my own, and I knew how I wanted to feel… — Bridget Carpenter Copy Share Image
A mathematician will recognise Cauchy, Gauss, Jacobi or Helmholtz after reading a few pages, just as musicians recognise, from the first few… — Ludwig Boltzmann Copy Share Image
I liked reading about the nun who ate so dainty with her fingers she never dripped any grease on herself. I've never… — Helene Hanff Copy Share Image
I try to be a good human being and keep up with what's going on in the world by reading and staying… — Bob Feller Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, I was running around; I was a little tomboy. So I was just running around trying to… — Dania Ramirez Copy Share Image
“By teaching them all to read, we have left them at the mercy of the printed word. By the invention of the… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
I found that the breakthroughs for me, as I went through school, came through sexuality, explorations of consciousness, reading, loving, friends, time… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Even amid the shock of my diagnosis, I held onto the hope that I'd be able to make the most of my… — Suleika Jaouad Copy Share Image
We have seen too many arbitrary Strasbourg diktats based on the whims of European judges - from prisoner voting to blocking deportation… — Dominic Raab Copy Share Image
I learned by reading an awful lot and by writing a half a million words of stuff nobody would do anything with… — Harry Turtledove Copy Share Image
You have to have really wide reading habits and pay attention to the news and just everything that's going on in the… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Just go on reading, as well as you can, and be sure that when the children get the thrill of the story,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When you're unhappy, I guess everything in the world - reading, eating, sleeping - has something buried somewhere inside it that just… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
Life involves effort and growth. You won't grow by watching a situation comedy, though you can grow by reading a book. I… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Pavel Palazchenko has given us a well-written, inside account of Gorbachev's and Shevardnadze's diplomacy. Remarkably objective, it is full of insights, makes… — Jack F. Matlock, Jr Copy Share Image
“It was impossible to feel alone in a room full of favorite books. I had the sense that they knew me personally,… — Riley Redgate Copy Share Image
“Now and then I am asked as to ‘what books a statesman should read,’ and my answer is, poetry and novels –… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
If you pay a child a dollar to read a book, as some schools have tried, you not only create an expectation… — Michael Sandel Copy Share Image
We take men's obligation to earn money, and when they do it well ,we blame them for having power and being oppressors.… — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
I like Jo Nesbo and Hakan Nesser. There are so many good books in the world. I don't want to spend time… — Maj Sjowall Copy Share Image
“Meaningful literary criticism is like penance to please Bhagwan Shiva and ask for wisdom for the world instead of material things for… — Alok Mishra Copy Share Image
Jazz goes into folk music, into rock music. Jazz is in practically everything except classical music where they're reading the same music… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
Will!" Charlotte threw up her hands. "Why didn't you say so?" "You know, the books on demon pox are in the library,"… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Israel, in terms of Jewish values, and what I have been reading in Jewish papers, and hear from Jewish around the country,… — Juan Williams Copy Share Image
In my experience, adults rarely bother reading the reviews of children's books and almost never read the books themselves - particularly if… — Meg Rosoff Copy Share Image
![“I had been emotionally affected by the story [of Steven King], on my own, and I knew how I wanted to feel watching it because I had felt it already reading it. God bless them, Bad Robot hired me to develop it and I spent the next six months in a room, alone, with a lot of index cards up on a wall…” quote by Bridget Carpenter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5c3/bridget-carpenter-44527_affected_i-had-been-emotionally-affected-by-the-s_2026458.jpg)
