In reading, in literature and poetry, I found an artistic freedom that I didn't see at Woolworth's. I would read everything from… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Fundamentalism does mean reading quite conservatively and literally, saying 'the Bible is the word of God and we have to follow it.… — Elaine Pagels Copy Share Image
I much prefer working with kids whose life could be completely upended by a reading of a book over a weekend. You… — Russell Banks Copy Share Image
We've all had classes with a professor so bland and monotone that their lectures sound like Mitt Romney reading 'Paradise Lost' from… — Sean Evans Copy Share Image
“Of course they were eaten,” he retorted, his eyes flashing in cold humour. “Trolls generally aren’t exactly renowned for being vegetarians.” — Adele Rose Copy Share Image
In the early '90s, when I really started to find my voice, I was reading a lot of books, and I was… — Mos Def Copy Share Image
In theater, you go in-depth with your character, so coming to the States, it was inevitable to dig into the pilots I… — Adan Canto Copy Share Image
The art of reading is to skip judiciously. Whole libraries may be skipped in these days, when we have the results of… — Philip Gilbert Hamerton Copy Share Image
“But the not-very-highbrow truth of the matter was that the reading was how I got my ya-yas out. For the sake of… — Julie Powell Copy Share Image
Jeff Chu's pilgrimage across America to discover his own place as a gay man in the Christian church as well as attitudes… — Donna Freitas Copy Share Image
The present age has witnessed an extraordinary increase of a thinking public, by the facilities afforded to the diffusion of reading; the… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
“Those who spend the greater part of their time in reading or writing books are, of course, apt to take rather particular… — M.R. James Copy Share Image
“Reading wasn't an attempt to educate myself. It was my chief escape from a world that, although gorgeous in landscape and rich… — Chris Offutt Copy Share Image
It's insane to be a writer and not be a reader. When I'm writing I'm more likely to be reading four or… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
“For those of us with a bookish bent, reading is a reflexive response to everything. This is how we deal with the… — Diane Schoemperlen Copy Share Image
It makes one hope and believe that a day will come when, in the eye of the law, literary property will be… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I had passed through the entire British education system studying literature, culminating in three years of reading English at Oxford, and they'd… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
I didn't really enjoy reading until I married my wife and we began reading the Bible out loud to each other every… — Roger McGuinn Copy Share Image
I have dyslexia, and I never did learn to read music, and I even had a problem in reading because everything was… — Andrae Crouch Copy Share Image
Write it down, boy. If you come across a passage in your reading that you’d like to remember, write it down in… — Keith Donohue Copy Share Image
It's the time of year when the literati give advice on what we should be reading on our summer holidays. These terrifying… — Arthur Smith Copy Share Image
Had the followers of Jesus remained an obscure Jewish sect, most of you would not have learned to read, and the rest… — Rodney Stark Copy Share Image
“Altogether, I think we ought to read only books that bite and sting us. If the book we are reading doesn't shake… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
I get up earlier than my husband and I intentionally spend time in prayer and Bible reading just to focus myself for… — Anne Graham Lotz Copy Share Image
I was taught the alphabet by my aunts before I was four years old, and I was reading the Bible in class… — Simon Newcomb Copy Share Image
For a long time, I'd wanted to write a book that I would be proud and happy and psychologically and morally comfortable… — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
“Anyaele Sam Chiyson Leadership Law of Prosperity: Great leaders teach other leaders the infinite intelligence that enables them to have plenty of… — Anyaele Sam Chiyson Copy Share Image
It took me about three years to write About Grace. I wasn't teaching two of those years, so I was working eight-hour… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
Ninety percent of the research comes first. I mostly blunder around reading stuff and talking to smart people until an idea batters… — Scott Westerfeld Copy Share Image
From a child I was fond of reading, and all the little money that came into my hands was ever laid out… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
If you mean to know yourself, interline such of these aphorisms as affect you agreeably in reading, and set a mark to… — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
Reading to my daughter has been therapeutic. I've gone back and started to learn to read on a very basic level. I'm… — Patrick Dempsey Copy Share Image
“A good book is like really loved item at a really good restaurant, every time you go there you order it to… — K.A Cameron Copy Share Image
When it comes to writers, I'm a huge fan of Ian McEwan. I've never taken a writing course, but reading and deconstructing… — Deborah Copaken Kogan Copy Share Image
There's always these giant baffling books, like 'The Da Vinci Code.' People say it's not as well written as 'Midnight's Children.' Why… — Denise Mina Copy Share Image
The main problem with people not reading to their children is the lack of a bridge between schools and families, so that… — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
“A story can always break into pieces while it sits inside a book on a shelf; and, decades after we have read… — Andre Dubus Copy Share Image
When you read a book, you create that tonal bandwidth. You set a tone for yourself, as you're reading it, in which… — Nina Jacobson Copy Share Image
Many things embarrass me, but reading isn't one of them. I'm not ashamed of my slightly weird collection of prison memoirs. Nor… — Tom Rachman Copy Share Image
The moment Aunt March took her nap, or was busy with company, Jo hurried to this quiet place, and curling herself up… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
