If you think reading a book is hard, you should try writing one. Because it's even harder. It's still not as hard… — Erik Wolpaw Copy Share Image
Being an informed voter means, at the very least, researching recommendations and endorsements from more than one source and reading both the… — Jackie Fuchs Copy Share Image
“Emerson said that a library is a magic chamber in which there are many enchanted spirits. They wake when we call them.… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“Appalling things can happen to children. And even a happy childhood is filled with sadnesses. Is there any other period in your… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
“If you will read and listen, you will admit a multiplicity of voices and points of view, consider them with some humility,… — Rick Gekoski Copy Share Image
There lots of other kids playing in streets around this country today who are going to be dead tomorrow, and the next… — Ted Bundy Copy Share Image
With theatre, you can interpret the most complex play on stage for it have meaning to an audience because you're dealing in… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
You work with every actor differently. It's like if you're a mother, if you have children, some children need more discipline. Other… — Rob Reiner Copy Share Image
To read fiction means to play a game by which we give sense to the immensity of things that happened, are happening,… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Are you reading?" I say. It's not that I don't think Finn can read or anything, but it's just - well, not… — Elizabeth Scott Copy Share Image
Beyond the formative effects of reading on the individuals composing society, the fact that they have read the same books gives them… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As I started reading about it, I saw that at the beginning of the 19th century, outside of New England - which… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
“When I was young I studied in the west suburb, with the birds of the forest as my only neighbours. I would… — Wang Chieh Copy Share Image
“Every writer is first a member of a community of readers, and the deepest purpose of reading and writing fiction is to… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
If your memory was OK you could descend upon on a bookshop – a big enough one so that the staff wouldn’t… — Francis Spufford Copy Share Image
My work on what is called 'deep reading' explores the range of linguistic, cognitive, and affective processes that underlie not only the… — Maryanne Wolf Copy Share Image
A capacity, and taste, for reading, gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. It is the key, or one… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
What's agitating about solitude is the inner voice telling you that you should be mated to somebody, that solitude is a mistake.… — Charles Baxter Copy Share Image
Attention spans are changing. It's very noticeable. I am very aware that the kind of books I read in my childhood kids… — Cressida Cowell Copy Share Image
Now, I do say, "It's possible. You might be the first. I'm not saying it's impossible, but the odds are very much… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
“There are metaphors more real than the people who walk in the street. There are images tucked away in books that live… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“When it's summer, people sit a lot. Or lie. Lie in the sense of recumbency. A good heavy book holds you down.… — Roy Blount Jr Copy Share Image
“There is only one way to read, which is to browse in libraries and bookshops, picking up books that attract you, reading… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
Some people say that you should read people who think completely differently from you so that everything you read and everything that… — Ronald Frame Copy Share Image
“Spiritual life is not mystic; when you decide to work with God, you have stepped to mystery, God can intervene at any… — Patience Johnson Copy Share Image
At the age of three I began to look around my grandfather's library. My first knowledge of astronomy came from reading and… — Jesse L. Greenstein Copy Share Image
“in all the reading which you have ever read, did you ever read such a book as Locke’s Essay upon the Human… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Found one of my old journals. from right around the time we were heading out on tour with NFG in the UK… — Hayley Williams Copy Share Image
I had very low self-esteem. Books saved me. I found friends in stories like The Chronicles of Narnia and A Tree Grows… — Jenny Lawson Copy Share Image
“In some literature, I’ve read, weather is used as a metaphor. The darker and stormier the weather outside the more diabolical the… — Benjamin R. Smith Copy Share Image
Poetry springs directly from our primal need and capacity for communication[Poetry] mobilizes such a concentration of devices, such an intensification of language… — Sven Birkerts Copy Share Image
“From the cave to the skyscraper, from the club to weapons of mass destruction, from the tautological life of the tribe to… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
Travel stories teach geography; insect stories lead the child into natural science; and so on. The teacher, in short, can use reading… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
“For me, reading is so much more. Books teach you how other people think, and what they're feeling, and how they change… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Once I get on something, once I have something that I'm working on, then I become very obsessive. In a good way.… — Annette Bening Copy Share Image
My wife, the actress Megan Mullally, was an English major at Northwestern University and loves fiction. Like so many things in my… — Nick Offerman Copy Share Image
“A man should begin with his own times. He should become acquainted first of all with the world in which he is… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
First off, from reading the script and knowing that I was going to be apart of it, I'm a huge 'Wizard of… — Kathleen Robertson Copy Share Image
I envy neither the heart nor the head of any legislator who has been born to an inheritance of privileges, who has… — Frances Harper Copy Share Image
Since I hold no judgments against my characters, no matter how heinous they might seem, I present them as real people with… — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
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