[The Outsiders] was all new to me. It's been fun to be a part of that ride, where it's become on the… — Rob Lowe Copy Share Image
When you find it you become the secret addressee of a literary text and I felt that their reader had been left… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
The reason that truth is stranger than fiction is that fiction has to have a rational thread running through it in order… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“She always wanted to be the kind of person who could play the "Moonlight" Sonata. She buries her failure in this, as… — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
Reading and writing are the same thing; it's just one's the more active and the other's the more passive. They flow into… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
When I was 8, I was reading 'Gone with the Wind' and 'Pride and Prejudice' and all that, not knowing it wasn't… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
Accolades and lists may tell us about accomplishments, but life is meant to be experienced, not just accomplished. It's like the difference… — LZ Granderson Copy Share Image
Being a reader is sort of like being president, except reading involves fewer state dinners, usually. You have this agenda you want… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“I don’t have the heart to tell my sons that the older one gets, the less funny literature becomes—and they would refuse… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
He [Hemingway] used a stand-up work place he had fashioned out of the top of of a bookcase near his bed. His… — A. E. Hotchner Copy Share Image
“When I read a novel I am not here. I am transported to far-off places, my eyes unseeing of the words on… — Nancy Moser Copy Share Image
On the other couch a women sits with a young boy looking through a picture book about Babar the Elephant. When I… — James Frey Copy Share Image
In Radical Optimism, Beatrice Bruteau sets forth a deep and shining vision of spirituality, one that guides the reader into the contemplative… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
I don't know what it is about human beings but most of us really like reading about or observing sexual tension and… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
I know that for every reader who has lost the habit or can't find the time, there are people who've never enjoyed… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
“She sighed and looked at him sympathetically. 'Cool flame tricks aside, there's no competition.' He lifted his eyebrow. 'Library wins?' 'Every single… — Elizabeth Hunter Copy Share Image
I always try to treat the book itself as the artwork. I don't want you to stop while you're reading one of… — Chris Raschka Copy Share Image
There's no pressure in baseball. Pressure is when the doctor is getting ready to cut you, take your heart out, and put… — Charlie Manuel Copy Share Image
My days are filled with work I love - reading poems, writing poems, talking with people about poems, teaching, directing a writing… — Deborah Landau Copy Share Image
Two people have been really liberating in my mind; one is Wittgenstein and the other is Burke. I read Burke before he… — Clifford Geertz Copy Share Image
And when I was young, did I ever tell you, I always wanted to get inside a book and never come out… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
I know people who read and read, and for all the good it does them, they might as well cut bread and… — Arnold Bennett Copy Share Image
he who should inspire and lead his race must be defended from travelling with the souls of other men, from living, breathing,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
To read a novel requires a certain kind of concentration, focus, devotion to the reading. If you read a novel in more… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
I read a random issue when I was a kid, but no, I wasn't super familiar with the characters [Captain Victory] until… — Sterling Gates Copy Share Image
“How can you keep up with her, this woman who is always reading another book besides the one before her eyes, a… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
I don't understand what apps are on my phone. Why do they ask for passwords? Why do they all ask for different… — Chelsea Handler Copy Share Image
“A classroom atmosphere that promotes reading does not come from the furniture and its placement as much as it comes from the… — Donalyn Miller Copy Share Image
Nobody knows that in reading we are re-living our temptations to be a poet. All readers who have a certain passion for… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
“Look for the copper tablet-box, Undo its bronze lock, Open the door to its secret, Lift out the lapis lazuli tablet and… — Stephanie Dalley Copy Share Image
After reading the script I ask the director about my character's background, what does he do, how he walks, talks, what clothes… — Jisshu Sengupta Copy Share Image
Evolution has just been dealt its death blow. After reading Origins of Life with my background in chemistry and physics, it is… — Richard Smalley Copy Share Image
Every time there's a revolution, it comes from somebody reading a book about revolution. David Walker wrote a book and Nat Turner… — Mike Tyson Copy Share Image
I highly recommend reading this book, and applying the NVC process it teaches. It is a significant first step towards changing our… — Arun Manilal Gandhi Copy Share Image
Better to remain silent and thought a fool, than to speak out and confirm that you didn't do the assigned readings before… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
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“A person is like a novel: Up to the very last page you don't know how it's going to end. Otherwise, there'd… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
In order to arrive you must follow the signs. God inscribed on the world the path that each man must follow. It… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“A reader of mine is a deluxe reader, not because I’m so great but because in order to get to me you… — César Aira Copy Share Image
![“[The Outsiders] was all new to me. It's been fun to be a part of that ride, where it's become on the level of Catcher In The Rye in terms of people's required reading in schools.” quote by Rob Lowe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bf2/rob-lowe-855_catcher-in-the-rye_the-outsiders-was-all-new-to-me-it-s-bee_1234356.jpg)
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