“The attraction of reading is that it allows you to live, for a few hours, as someone else—grants you access to their… — Alessandra Torre Copy Share Image
If one has to choose between reading the new books and reading the old, one must choose the old: not because they… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I get weary of reading about rebirths because we're all growing all the time and it diminishes the life you've lived if… — Rickie Lee Jones Copy Share Image
“Do you have any old copies of Dickens? Bookseller: We've got a copy of David Copperfield from 1850 for $150. Customer: Why… — Jen Campbell Copy Share Image
I can remember picking up weighty tomes on the history of science and the history of philosophy and reading those when I… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
“The greatest skill that an author could possess, she thought, was the ability to make a reader see a book as his… — Rakesh Satyal Copy Share Image
Most people don't realize that when we were producing 'Black Panther,' 'Quantum & Woody,' and 'Steel,' fairly few people were reading those… — Christopher Priest Copy Share Image
“Is there a better method of departure by night than this quiet bon voyage with an open book, the sole companion who… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
And Mandelstam says a poet - you go down to the shore and you see an unlikely looking from a bottle from… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
Have you ever found your heart's desire and then lost it? I had seen myself, a portrait of myself as a reader.… — Audrey Niffenegger Copy Share Image
“As I walked in the dark through the tunnels and tunnels of books, I could not help being overcome by a sense… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
I became an inventor by accident. I was out of the Air Force in 1956. No, no, that's not true: I went… — Woody Norris Copy Share Image
Let me just say something that I forgot, I also hoped and this was very true in the beginning - that this… — Lawrence Halprin Copy Share Image
After reading all that has been written, and after thinking all that can be thought, on the topics of God and the… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
Freedom is a need of the soul, and nothing else. It is in striving toward God that the soul strives continually after… — Whittaker Chambers Copy Share Image
I take a real interest in the possibilities of teaching - including the practice of bringing creative writing, and serious reading, into… — Michael Cadnum Copy Share Image
I'm reading George Saunders's story collection, "Tenth of December." He was my mentor at the University of Syracuse. The stories are mind-blowing… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
“Don’t tell me to write your story. Write your own story. If you won’t write it down, it probably isn’t worth writing… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
I'm never the kind of person who's sitting at home reading the charts and basing how I feel about myself or even… — Pink Copy Share Image
I'm not reading currently because I'm getting revisions of a novel. If I read while I'm writing I will unconsciously plagiarize and… — David Duchovny Copy Share Image
My earliest memory of books is not of reading but of being read to. I spent hours listening, watching the face of… — Hisham Matar Copy Share Image
A careful reading of 50 Simple Things leaves you wondering whether you're going to die from environmental disaster or intellectual annoyance. Failing… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
“When you have those moments just think of me, call or text me when you feel weak and I will always be… — Raven K. Asher Copy Share Image
Read a lot. Expect something big, something exalting or deepening from a book. No book is worth reading that isn't worth re-reading. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
It is impossible to enslave, mentally or socially, a bible-reading people. The principles of the bible are the groundwork of human freedom. — Horace Greeley Copy Share Image
It is to be deeply regretted that the clergymen would oppose an effort to teach the people the Bible truths; nevertheless, we… — Joseph Franklin Rutherford Copy Share Image
I'm very impatient, and if I get a new piece of technology, no matter what it is - I recently got the… — Kimberley Nixon Copy Share Image
Reading is a form of prayer, a guided meditation that briefly makes us believe we're someone else, disrupting the delusion that we're… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
We live in a moment and a culture when reading is really endangered. There's simply no way to write well, though, if… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
My inspiration always comes from different places. Sometimes it's a piece of music or being in nature or seeing a film or… — Marie Forleo Copy Share Image
Dirac politely refused Robert's [Robert Oppenheimer] two proffered books: reading books, the Cambridge theoretician announced gravely, "interfered with thought." — Luis Walter Alvarez Copy Share Image
Reading time is precious. Don't waste it. Reading bad books, or books that are wrong for a certain time in your life,… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
When I was teaching English and trying to get kids passionate about reading, the most effective weapon I had was 'The Martian… — Jack McDevitt Copy Share Image
Reading a newspaper is as important to me as reading a script. Sitting in a cafe and drinking coffee is as important… — Atul Kulkarni Copy Share Image
“He read it over twenty times and though the darkness that sang on held steady about him, the unhurried words fell bright… — Elizabeth Spencer Copy Share Image
I wasn't that bothered with school; I was too mad into horses. But I liked reading and was good enough at English… — Kate Thompson Copy Share Image
“[W]hat I like best is staying home and reading. Being rich is not about how many homes you own. It’s the freedom… — John Waters Copy Share Image
Sometimes, despite the fact that you're reading through masses of material, you just can't not think about a certain event, for it… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
Now, take the Constitution according to its plain reading, and I defy the presentation of a single pro-slavery clause in it. On… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
Look at Mann's reading habits, his explicit comments on Nietzsche, and his copy of Birth of Tragedy, and it starts to seem… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
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