I could lay here and read all night. I am not able to fall asleep without reading. You have the time when… — Kaye Gibbons Copy Share Image
“No one in their right mind would take up clerking in a bookstore for the salary, and no one in his right… — Mary Ann Shaffer Copy Share Image
Now I see why reading was illegal for black people during slavery. I discover that I think in words. The more words… — M. K. Asante Copy Share Image
My method is related to an attempt to do something that might be understood by today's world, or that could at least… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
My first and most loved real novel was 'Little Women.' I identified with the Jo character even though we were opposites. Jo… — Rhea Perlman Copy Share Image
From numberless books the fluttering reader, idle and inconstant, bears away the bloom that only clings to the outer leaf; but genius… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
“All the old houses that I knew when I was a child were full of books, bought generation after generation by members… — Katherine Ann Porter Copy Share Image
Adapting to our Second Adulthood is not all about the money. It requires thinking about how to find a new locus of… — Gail Sheehy Copy Share Image
One reason I like to highlight reading is, reading is the beginnings of the ability to be a good student. And if… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
We must be forewarned that only rarely does a text easily lend itself to the reader's curiosity... the reading of a text… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
“It never registered to them that I had time to read all of Balzac, Dickens, and Stendhal while Papa was dying, not… — Elizabeth Spencer Copy Share Image
In reading the biographies of very successful men and women, one theme frequently surfaces: such people have a strong bias for action.… — Steve Pavlina Copy Share Image
Writing, or at least good writing, is an outgrowth of that urge to use language to communicate complex ideas and experiences between… — John Green Copy Share Image
Every child's taste is different. Don't worry if they're not reading 'War and Peace' at age 12. First, build a good foundation… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
“I am the man who comes and goes between the bar and the telephone booth. Or, rather:that man is called 'I' and… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
I write my first draft by hand, at least for fiction. For non-fiction, I write happily on a computer, but for fiction… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
“It is often much harder to get rid of books than it is to acquire them. They stick to us in that… — Carlos María Domínguez Copy Share Image
The most popular typefaces are the easiest to read; their popularity has made them disappear from conscious cognition. It becomes impossible to… — Zuzana Licko Copy Share Image
I started my professional life as a philosopher of language and for several years took the orthodox line that meaning is an… — David E. Cooper Copy Share Image
With the Black Company series Glen Cook single-handedly changed the face of fantasy—something a lot of people didn’t notice and maybe still… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
What a dazzlingly generous, gloriously unpredictable book! Maggie Nelson shows us what it means to be real, offering a way of thinking… — Eula Biss Copy Share Image
“Silence. Montag sat like a carved white stone. The echo of the final hammer on his skull died slowly away into the… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Fiction is a sort of inter-human magic, allowing you to travel into a scene and feel it tingle on your skin, see… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
I learned a lesson which has stuck with me all through the years: you can learn from everybody. I didn't just learn… — Sam Walton Copy Share Image
She might even be your lovely school-teacher who is reading these words to you at this very moment. Look carefully at that… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
“When a book leaves its author's desk it changes. Even before anyone has read it, before eyes other than its creator's have… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I have always been fascinated by the human mind, conscious and unconscious - that is what writing and reading is about, too.… — Anne Roiphe Copy Share Image
People have pointed out evidences of personal feeling in my notices as if they were accusing me of a misdemeanor, not knowing… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I have an office in my house, with a comfy red print reading chair and a soft cream-colored desk. After I walk… — Kirby Larson Copy Share Image
I bet if you look at the average teenager and the average adult, the average teenager has read more books in the… — John Green Copy Share Image
It would be worth the while to select our reading, for books are the society we keep; to read only the serenely… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
At Harvard I was taking an African-American studies class, and we were reading about the tragic mulatto. Invariably, the tragic mulatto can't… — Soledad O'Brien Copy Share Image
There are two magic acts I want to pull off when I write. One is creating a feeling that when you're inside… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
I really wished he hadn't made me hate to read the Bible. Having it shoved down my throat all my life had… — Abbi Glines Copy Share Image
“There it lay in the early sunshine of spring. It looked a town rather than a house, but a town built, not… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Now what is food for the inner man? Not prayer, but the Word of God; and here again, not the simple reading… — George Muller Copy Share Image
Never underestimate the power of gaining a new perspective by simply changing your immediate environment. Going for a walk, reading a book,… — Hal Elrod Copy Share Image
I'd say that about 82 percent of what I write is bad, but don't go by me; I'm as bad a judge… — George Burns Copy Share Image
The world is not kind to whistleblowers - a term of art with particular resonance in football, the most hierarchical and repressive… — Jane Leavy Copy Share Image
Orwell was dealing with communism and his disillusionment with communism in Russia and what he saw the communists do in Spain. His… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
