“..reading a book doesn’t mean just turning the pages. It means thinking about it, identifying parts that you want to go back… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Digressions, incontestably, are the sunshine, the life, the soul of reading! Take them out and one cold eternal winter would reign in… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
If you want to be a fiction writer, you need to start reading like a fiction writer. To do so, you need… — John McNally Copy Share Image
“Men who read a lot have a more sensitive disposition, added Fowler. [...] I did not know what to say to this.… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
No time spent with a book is ever entirely wasted, even if the experience is not a happy one: there’s always something… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
Only when all children are in a book-loving environment will they achieve literacy, yes, but a lot more: a confidence in handling… — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
For some of us, books are as important as almost anything else on earth. What a miracle it is that out of… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
You are currently experiencing desire; otherwise, you wouldn't be reading these words. Even if you are reading them at the behest of… — William Braxton Irvine Copy Share Image
I think the most important thing for an actor is reading the script and trying to figure out if you can play… — Jesse Eisenberg Copy Share Image
Imagine what it must be like for teenagers who don't feel they have room to breathe in their own homes. If you… — Alexandra Robbins Copy Share Image
Of all the nations in the Western world, the United States, with the most money and the most time, has the fewest… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Why should I tell you?" he asked, with no small amount of petulance. "If you tell me, I will leave you alone,"… — Rachel Cohn Copy Share Image
“Whatever. I’ve never understood what the big deal is about reading.” He shuts the door and locks it, turning for the stairs.… — Jessica Sorensen Copy Share Image
Every so often I take out a volume and read a page or two. After all, reading is looking after in a… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
In order to dream so far, is it enough to read? Isn't it necessary to write? Write as in our schoolboy past,… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
When you find a writer who really is saying something to you, read everything that writer has written and you will get… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
There comes a terrible moment to many souls when the great movements of the world, the larger destinies of mankind, which have… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“It should be possible to exist with only a short shelf of books, to read and give away. After all - we… — Pam Brown Copy Share Image
As any war veteran will tell you, there is a vast difference between preparing for battle and actually facing battle for the… — Kevin Hearne Copy Share Image
“Hope knew that her thinking regarding books went contrary to the general sentiment of the people of Eden. Books were seen as… — David Bergen Copy Share Image
“Consider a small child sitting on his mother's lap while she reads him a picture book. The picture book opens to a… — Martha Parravano Copy Share Image
One great aim of revision is to cut out. In the exuberance of composition it is natural to throw in - as… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
“For heaven’s sake, don’t turn reading into the intellectual equivalent of eating organic greens, or (shifting the metaphor slightly) some fearfully disciplined… — Alan Jacobs Copy Share Image
“My father never put a book into my hands and never forbade a book. Instead, he let me roam and graze, making… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
“We can trace the communitarian fantasy that lies at the root of all humanism back to the model of a literary society,… — Peter Sloterdijk Copy Share Image
I actually come from comics, and I'm big on comics. I was reading 'Walking Dead' from the beginning. Then just being on… — Scott M. Gimple Copy Share Image
You have one of two choices. Either you can panic and start making frantic attempts to reform under the glare of these… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
Every good story needs a complication. We learn this fiction-writing fundamental in courses and workshops, by reading a lot or, most painfully,… — Monica Wood Copy Share Image
Does sex education encourage sex? Many parents are afraid that talking about sex with their teenagers will be taken as permission for… — Benjamin Spock Copy Share Image
I was under twenty when I deliberately put it to myself one night after good conversation that there are moments when we… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
Tis the good reader that makes the good book; in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Border crossing' is a recurrent theme in all aspects of my work -- editing, writing, and painting. I'm interested in the various… — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
Intelligence is attractive, but so is life experience. You can't amass it just by reading a ton of books. But you can… — Nicole Lapin Copy Share Image
“...nothing from the summer carries more lasting allure for me than the memory of sitting with Ruth on the bank of a… — Scott Russell Sanders Copy Share Image
“Eisenhower accepted and used the power of television. Stevenson felt obliged to critique it. In an article for Fortune magazine published shortly… — Scott Farris Copy Share Image
Some people have argued that listening to a work of literature does not really promote literacy in the same way that reading… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
“It doesn't matter what you read. What matters is you read. Whether it’s Tolstoy or Twilight, Kierkegaard or Betty and Veronica, keep… — Trent Zelazny Copy Share Image
“When a reader falls in love with a book, it leaves its essence inside him, like radioactive fallout in an arable field,… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“My mother neither encouraged the reading of science fiction nor did she disparage it. She told me later that there was a… — Don Borchert Copy Share Image
I took the first James Kelman novel, 'The Bus Conductor Hines', home to my dad. I thought, 'My dad will like this;… — Ian Rankin Copy Share Image
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