“Balzac, Dante, Joseph Conrad, Dickens," he answered without hesitation. "Not Exactly fashionable." "That's why I read them. If you only read the… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
From the little reading I had done I had observed that the men who were most in life, who were molding life,… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
This is what reading is like to me. It's finding a spring in the midst of a barren land. Just when I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have read various articles on the fourth dimension, the relativity theory of Einstein, and other psychological speculation on the constitution of… — Charles Lane Poor Copy Share Image
We cannot control the way people interpret our ideas or thoughts, but we can control the words and tones we choose to… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
For me I was always a smart nerdy kid. I wasn't the smartest and I wasn't the nerdiest, but I was a… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
The basis of our governments being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right; and… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“When Suzie introduced Helen, she told the audience that one of the best things about books is that they are an interactive… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
I know one husband and wife who, whatever the official reasons given to the court for the break up of their marriage,… — Vera Brittain Copy Share Image
If you were a medieval scholar reading a book, you knew that there was a reasonable likelihood you'd never see that particular… — Joshua Foer Copy Share Image
I feel most myself when I'm reading, but by that I don't mean that I'm most comfortable when I'm reading. I feel… — Dan Chiasson Copy Share Image
I once said to someone when I was playing Lady Macbeth and they said: "That's tricky, emotionally, what do you do about… — Judi Dench Copy Share Image
“I had often seen my master and Dick employed in reading; and I had a great curiosity to talk to the books,… — Olaudah Equianom Copy Share Image
When I auditioned for 'Pitch Perfect,' I didn't know it was a singing movie. I didn't read the script. I go to… — Adam DeVine Copy Share Image
Books, gentlemen, are a species of men, and introduced to them you circulate in the "very best society" that this world can… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“There is nothing more wonderful than a book. It may be a message to us from the dead, from human souls we… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
“Many accepted authors simply do not exist for me. Their names are engraved on empty graves, their books are dummies, they are… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
I only worked on that one movie, but then quickly realized that the path of being an assistant director was not gonna… — Suzanne Todd Copy Share Image
“In high school, we barely brushed against Ogden Nash, Lewis Carroll, Edward Lear, or any of the other so-unserious writers who delight… — Bob Harris Copy Share Image
A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
I believe the teacher's work is largely negative, that it is largely a matter of saying, "This doesn't work because ..." or… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“Reading poetry is like undressing before a bath. You don't undress out of fear that your clothes will become wet. You undress… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
When you get pregnant, you start reading pregnancy books. Everything has been pretty textbook. It's amazing how they can say , 'This… — Anna Silk Copy Share Image
Something seems wrong to most people engaged in struggle when they see more people hurt on their own side than on the… — Barbara Deming Copy Share Image
I wish you hadn't been so over-courteous about putting the inscription on a card instead of on the flyleaf. It's the bookseller… — Helene Hanff Copy Share Image
A person of mature years and ripe development, who is expecting nothing from literature but the corroboration and renewal of past ideas,… — Charles Horton Cooley Copy Share Image
The way we learn to write is the way we learn to talk: We listen to others and start mimicking speech, and… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
Who are you, reader, reading my poems an hundred years hence? I cannot send you one single flower from this wealth of… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
I love to read, and I am kind of different from most of the kids at my school. I hate gossip and… — AnnaSophia Robb Copy Share Image
The short version is that I started an internet diary a long, long time ago (six years!) because I was bored with… — Jason Mulgrew Copy Share Image
You only learn when you give your whole being to something. When you give your whole being to mathematics,you learn; but when… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
At the end of the table, the secretary was reading the decision in some case, but in such a mournful and monotonous… — Nikolai Gogol Copy Share Image
In order to have a charismatic leader, you have to have a charismatic program. Because if you have a charismatic program, then… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
I had just finished reading The Day of the Locust when this piece was brought to my attention, and I was like,… — Matt Bomer Copy Share Image
I think a young poet, or an old poet, for that matter, should try to produce something that pleases himself personally, not… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
Audience participation can often inject a dose of adrenalin into your average dial-tone literary reading, especially if a handful of audience-members are… — Lynn Coady Copy Share Image
It is a bit more challenging for the simple fact that now the stories I am writing are relying more on my… — Sasa Stanisic Copy Share Image
“Don't you ever get tired of reading?" she asked. "You could hardly be called good company! Don't you know that, with women,… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
With lines that show an unyielding dedication to craft, these poems are not afraid of meaning or the meaningful. More and more… — Jericho Brown Copy Share Image
I like reading books about kids where there weren't really many adults, where they didn't need an adult to come and solve… — John Boyne Copy Share Image
