It is remarkable, but on the whole, perhaps, not to be lamented, that the world is so unkind to a new book.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In terms of the idea of long-term occupation - I have been reading a little bit more about this period - and… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
“When we escape into a book, become absorbed into it, are magically transported, nothing becomes more visible, upon our return, than the… — Tiffany Eberle Kriner Copy Share Image
“What is different, and troubling, is that skimming is becoming our dominant mode of reading. Once a means to an end, a… — Nicholas Carr Copy Share Image
Eight years ago, I was drawn into Keats's world by Andrew Motion's biography. Soon I was reading back and forth between Keats's… — Jane Campion Copy Share Image
I've made movies that were adaptations and I've been kind of frustrated by the process because, you know that old axiom, 'It's… — Amber Heard Copy Share Image
I was in a store in Halifax, Nova Scotia that I love, sort of like an environmental friendly sort of store. But… — Ellen Page Copy Share Image
The people who visit the [Lincoln] memorial always look like an advertisement for democracy, so bizarrely, suspiciously diverse that one time I… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
I haven't been reading anything on tour so far, I haven't had a minute. Any moment that I've had recently on the… — Carla Azar Copy Share Image
The celebrity aspect is nothing short of ridiculous, and auditioning is brutal and dehumanizing. Every time I see a pretty young girl… — Mara Wilson Copy Share Image
My mother finally took me to a child psychologist, who knew exactly what I was, but she just couldn’t accept it and… — Charlaine Harris Copy Share Image
I used to think I knew everything, but older you get the more you see other areas. If you could read everything… — Emo Philips Copy Share Image
I read reviews of critics I respect and feel I can learn something from. Right now there are a lot of bottom-feeder… — Alexander Payne Copy Share Image
The taste for books was an early one. As a child he was sometimes found at midnight by a page still reading.… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
If behind the erratic gunfire of the press the author felt that there was another kind of criticism, the opinion of people… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The university is a vast public utility which turns out future workers in today's vineyard, the military-industrial complex. They've got to be… — Mario Savio Copy Share Image
The clerical work is par for the course. "Keep on file in numerical order" means throw in wastebasket. You'll soon learn the… — Bel Kaufman Copy Share Image
“Second-hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“At times I wondered whether writing was not a solipsistic luxury in countries like mine, where there were scant readers, so many… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
My reading of the threat from Iran is that if Iran acquires nuclear weapons, it is an existential threat to the State… — John McCain Copy Share Image
True freedom and the end of suffering is living in such a way as if you had completely chosen whatever you feel… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
If you haven't learned to ride a bike by the time your peer group has, then suddenly it's an embarrassment and you'll… — Chris Hadfield Copy Share Image
“That's why I read so much. A book isn't going to hurt me. A book isn't going to form some opinion about… — Paulette Mahurin Copy Share Image
When I was young, I went to college, had a teacher who was, had been a student of Trilling's at Columbia, this… — Louis Menand Copy Share Image
Land surveyors can spend as much time reading legislation, bylaws, and engineering documents as we spend in front of an instrument in… — Mark Mason Copy Share Image
I think people are trying out ideas with the new technology and it's too early to say where it's going exactly. But… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I don’t even know what I’m writing, I have no idea, I don’t know anything, and I’m not reading over it, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You can't build a vocabulary without reading. You can't meet friends if you ... stay at home by yourself all the time.… — Rudolf Flesch Copy Share Image
My parents read to me a lot as a kid, and I started writing very early, probably spurred on by Aesop's fables.… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
I'm finding that people reading the book [The Heroin Diaries: A Year In The Life Of A Shattered Rock Star] are saying,… — Nikki Sixx Copy Share Image
“I love bookshelves, and stacks of books, spines, typography, and the feel of pages between my fingertips. I love bookmarks, and old… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
Why are we reading a Shakespeare play or 'Huckleberry Finn?' Well, because these works are great, but they also tell us something… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
“Reading is never purely an act of isolation. When we read, we enter into a world of commonality, whether of language, story,… — Andrew Piper Copy Share Image
I always give my students exercises where they really have to open a vein and bleed all over the paper and that's… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
“Reading is first and foremost non-reading. Even in the case of the most passionate lifelong readers, the act of picking up and… — Pierre Bayard Copy Share Image
A literary creation can appeal to us in all sorts of ways-by its theme, subject, situations, characters. But above all it appeals… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
I had lots of time to read [being a lawyer] what I hadn't read in my school and college days. Being a… — Khushwant Singh Copy Share Image
I have grown up reading Marvel Comics and Marvel movies with their intricately woven storylines. It is fascinating to see how Marvel… — Rana Daggubati Copy Share Image
“If she were running through the rye, if she were headed towards the abyss, I would grab hold with every ounce of… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
“Do you know what it is?' [Toby] said thoughtfully. 'It's that they haven't had anything really awful happen to them. No wonder… — Michelle Cooper Copy Share Image
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