When I was young I was constantly reading walls; I took in everything written on walls, from love messages to political messages.… — Jose Parla Copy Share Image
A writer must know how people read, what are the main sources of reading errors, and what can be done to possibly… — Rudolf Flesch Copy Share Image
When I was 8, I was reading a book in which it was snowing. When I looked outside, I expected there to… — Candace Bushnell Copy Share Image
Chicago is an exciting place which renews itself. The workshop system encourages close reading and frank discussions of papers and ideas. — James Heckman Copy Share Image
Regarding scripts and projects, I've always been open to reading all sorts of genres and never closing myself off to one, because… — Lily Collins Copy Share Image
“Reading, by its very nature, is an admission of defeat, a ritual of self-humiliation: it shows that you believe other lives are… — Rose Vane Copy Share Image
I do 30 to 40 books a year, so it's a fair amount of reading. Back and forth between nonfiction and fiction.… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
We have to tell the American public that they're missing the boat, that they have to get into writing and reading. Not… — Patricia Schroeder Copy Share Image
I kid the Republicans, with love. I feel bad for them. They got nobody for next time. Who are they gonna run?… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
I never thought I'd be doing poetry books. I never really studied poetry. But the first one I did was after my… — Caroline Kennedy Copy Share Image
“...this blessing of loneliness was not really loneliness. Real loneliness was something unendurable. What one wanted when exhausted by the noise and… — Elizabeth Goudge Copy Share Image
I hadn't learned to read by third grade, which wasn't unusual for some kids. I knew something was wrong because I couldn't… — Barbara Corcoran Copy Share Image
In 'Finding Nemo,' all of the voices were recorded separate - so I would be in a sound booth in a studio… — Alexander Gould Copy Share Image
“Once the writer was at the deathbed of a fellow writer. What interested his dying colleague more than anything else was what… — Peter Handke Copy Share Image
It was the books I started reading. It was the music I started listening to. It was the television I started watching.… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest." He also said:… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
When I became a teen, I ran into a friend at a magic shop who took me under his wing. I started… — Apollo Robbins Copy Share Image
I've always liked stories. I'm always reading, ever since I was a kid. I've always been reading and wanting to be in… — Garret Dillahunt Copy Share Image
I read all the time. People ask, 'Do you read while you work?' And I say, 'I better.' I take two or… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
I'm a provincial. I live very much like a hermit: reading, listening to music, working in the cutting room, writing, commercial work… — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
With twins, reading aloud to them was the only chance I could get to sit down. I read them picture books until… — Beverly Cleary 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
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
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
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 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
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
“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
“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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
“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
