When reading fiction, we cannot automatically assume that what we read is fact. — Celeste Ng Copy Share Image
Let All Your Life’s Experiences Lead To More Writing Encourage More Reading..! — Sujit Lalwani Copy Share Image
I used to spend hours reading the Sunday papers, but then I had 900 children so I don't any more. — Claudia Winkleman Copy Share Image
Movies feel like work, and reading fiction feels like work, whereas reading nonfiction feels like pleasure. — Peter Morgan Copy Share Image
“Even a book can be dangerous in the wrong hands, and when that happens, you blame the hands, but you also read… — Erika Johansen Copy Share Image
“A good reader should always have two books with him: one to read, the other one to lend.” — Gabrielle Dubois Copy Share Image
Reading is a mighty engine, beside which steam and electricity sink into insignificance. — Melvil Dewey Copy Share Image
“Reading is like therapy; the characters are the therapist, their world is their office, and the adventures are the sessions.” — Jordan Bowers Copy Share Image
Our culture constantly inundates us with new information, and yet our brains capture so little of it. I can spend half a… — Joshua Foer Copy Share Image
“And even with the book closed, the voices do not stop--there are echoes and reverberations that seem to leap off the pages… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
“I turn to Mrs. Kasperek; this feels urgent to me. "Do you know what Caliban says when he wants to take away… — Deborah Meyler Copy Share Image
Note-taking is important to me: a week's worth of reading notes (or "thoughts I had in the shower" notes) is cumulatively more… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
“What you read between the covers of your Bible is wisdom for a lifetime, rock-solid, forever truth—truth you can stand on, live… — Elizabeth George Copy Share Image
Being a writer is a solitary life. So the little part of me that's an actor still enjoys the theatrical part of… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
I'll not have my grandson subjected to the humiliation of his reading becoming public. We have to cope with this disgrace discreetly… — Brandon Mull Copy Share Image
The gods have chosen to entertain me with chronic eyestrain headaches. Very poisonous episodes. So I don't do a lot of reading… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“I realize that people still read books now and some people actually love them, but in 1946 in the Village our feelings… — Anatole Broyard Copy Share Image
“He sat down on a grassy bank and looked at the city that surrounded him, and thought, one day he would have… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
John Lott has done the most extensive, thorough, and sophisticated study we have on the effects of loosening gun control laws. Regardless… — Gary Kleck Copy Share Image
And if I'm guilty of having gratuitous sex, then I'm also guilty of having gratuitous violence, and gratuitous feasting, and gratuitous description… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
I started to concentrate more upon how the viewer looks at photographs... I would insert my own text or my own specific… — Lorna Simpson Copy Share Image
Literature sort of makes your daily operation, your daily conduct, the management of your affairs in the society a bit more complex.… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
When you read a book [The Hunger Games], you create that tonal bandwidth. You set a tone for yourself, as you're reading… — Nina Jacobson Copy Share Image
Even as a teenager we got interested in the Beats, Dada, and Surrealism, and so on. What drew us to those was… — Genesis P-Orridge Copy Share Image