I always found when I was reading an interview with an actor that I wasn't interested in their political opinions - I… — Elizabeth Hurley Copy Share Image
I remember that even my first impression of Italian cinema was pictures by paparazzi because my mom was reading all of these… — Wim Wenders Copy Share Image
“So Matilda's strong young mind continued to grow, nurtured by the voices of all those authors who had sent their books out… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
Our minds thus grow in spots; and like grease spots, the spots spread. But we let them spread as little as possible:… — James Truslow Adams Copy Share Image
I want to remind people of the great and profound joy that can be found in stories, and that stories can connect… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
“Read. Read all the time. Read as a matter of principle, as a matter of self-respect. Read as a nourishing staple of… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
Don't consider me too demanding if I ask you once again to set great store by holy books and read them as… — Pio of Pietrelcina Copy Share Image
It's absurd to think of 'Pride and Prejudice,' this classic, beloved book, beset with a zombie uprising. The goal is to make… — Seth Grahame-Smith Copy Share Image
“The books my mother read and reread provided a broader, more adventurous world, and escape from the confines of her chronic illness.… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
What is literature, and why do I try to write about it? I don’t know. Likewise, I don’t know why I go… — M. John Harrison Copy Share Image
The deep-read is when you get gut-hooked and dragged overboard down and down through the maze of print and find, to your… — Tim Wynne-Jones Copy Share Image
“One of the results of this self-examination — for that is what the writing of this book amounts to — is the… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
I was reading the paper and saw a cartoon with Ray Kelly frisking Obama, and I was like "Wait, what's happening?" so… — Adepero Oduye Copy Share Image
The Library didn't only contain magical books, the ones which are chained to their shelves and are very dangerous. It also contained… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Longest book was '2666' by Roberto Bolano, and it was an irregular reading experience. I read the first four parts during a… — Sarah Weinman Copy Share Image
I go around with my books so much and I love to perform on stage, to remind everybody that the lights are… — T.C. Boyle Copy Share Image
I would like to have the superpower of being able to touch a book and then gain all the knowledge out of… — Nicholas Brendon Copy Share Image
Pity the man who has a favorite restaurant, but not a favorite author. He's picked out a favorite place to feed his… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
“I like to read and write because it is the ONLY thing that takes my mind off of the real world and… — Shandy L. Kurth Copy Share Image
I have often reflected upon the new vistas that reading opened to me. I knew right there in prison that reading had… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
I have found, in short, from reading my own writing, that my subject in fiction is the action of grace in territory… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
The art of reading is the art of adopting the pace the author has set. Some books are fast and some are… — Mark Van Doren Copy Share Image
Without unscrambled eggs, there was no time travel, no more depredation of the Now, and we could look to a brighter future… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
It is one of the signs of the times. We confess that we have risen from reading this book with enlarged ideas,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Children deprived of words become school dropouts; dropouts deprived of hope behave delinquently. Amateur censors blame delinquency on reading immoral books and… — Peter S. Jennison Copy Share Image
“Reading is like thinking, like praying, like talking to a friend, like expressing your ideas, like listening to other people's ideas, like… — Roberto Bolano Copy Share Image
Unlike modern military codes, ancient texts are almost never purposely misleading, purposely scrambled. ... indeed, literacy was so uncommon until classical times… — E. J. W. Barber Copy Share Image
I like if you're reading something, and they're saying something you always thought, but they're putting it in the exact right way — Blake Nelson Copy Share Image
If you need proof of how the oral relates to the written, consider that many great novelists, including Joyce and Hemingway, never… — Frank Delaney Copy Share Image
I used to drink. I didn't like reading, but I discovered the benefits of it. I read that Floyd Mayweather never drinks… — Anthony Joshua Copy Share Image
I just happen to like the work. I like preparing for a role. I like reading. I like analyzing. I like literature.… — Elle Macpherson Copy Share Image
It's hard to predict what will happen as reading on screen becomes more of a universal norm, and when the formats dictated… — Michael Bierut Copy Share Image
The class has become over the years fairly large, running to three hundred or more, but I always insist upon reading all… — Alan Dundes Copy Share Image
All readers come to fiction as willing accomplices to your lies. Such is the basic goodwill contract made the moment we pick… — Steve Almond Copy Share Image
“Man Thinking must not be subdued by his instruments. Books are for the scholar's idle times. When he can read God directly,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“It was cool to see reading become such a transparent act - it was as if her face had a different expression… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
Sometimes I get the feeling that there are orgies going on all over new York City, and somebody says, 'Let's call Desmond,'… — Paul Desmond Copy Share Image
I've always looked up to John Terry; he's a massive defender and a rock. His one-v-one defending and reading of the game… — Millie Bright Copy Share Image
I really didn't know much about theater. After I signed on, I started reading a lot of Sam Shepard plays just to… — Taissa Farmiga Copy Share Image
Growing maturity is marked by the increasing liberties we take with our travelling... we made the discovery (some people never make it)… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
