Reading changes your perspective and feeds your imagination. — Najat Vallaud-Belkacem Copy Share Image
Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry. — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
When I say what I'm reading, this is what I need. I know the ills that plague me. — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
“Reading books will get you to the door, reading people will get you inside the room.” — Matshona Dhliwayo Copy Share Image
Few of the great works of ancient Greek literature are easy reading. — Gilbert Murray Copy Share Image
In Count Julian I simply proposed to create a text which would allow for diverse levels of reading. — Juan Goytisolo Copy Share Image
I stopped reading reviews about my own movies. I read stuff about other people's movies. — Steven Soderbergh Copy Share Image
“Writing is defined as "a conversation with no one and yet with everyone.” — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
There are times when I think that the reading I have done in the past has had no effect except to cloud… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
There have been two areas identified as being vital to reading - and that's for very young children between the ages of… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
“Tucking my nose into a book makes me completely oblivious to my surroundings. I would have made a terrible spy in the… — Alyxandra Harvey Copy Share Image
A couple of times he called the second he'd finished reading a novel and just had to tell me about it, and… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
“No days, perhaps, of all our childhood are ever so fully lived are those that we had regarded as not being lived… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
books are brain food. If every American would purchase the equivalent of his weight in books each year, this country would be… — Patricia Schroeder Copy Share Image
Basically, I learned to read by reading 'Peanuts,' just wanting to know what they were saying. I was 4 or 5 or… — Stephan Pastis Copy Share Image
Except that my father got a raise, and my mother didn't because she doesn't get paid for housework, and my sister stopped… — Stephen Chbosky Copy Share Image
I find it very difficult to talk about unwritten works. It's never useful to start putting words casually around the flimsiest of… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
“daughter of the past who walked in all wide-eyed and exhaling like she’d finally found what she was looking for. It was… — Patti Callahan Henry Copy Share Image
The effects of MFA programs, and the rise of creative writing instruction more generally, are far more diffuse than people think. Even… — Chad Harbach Copy Share Image
You need to have a reader's sympathy in order to accomplish anything. It's like at a reading, I find it's better to… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
I can only give you words. Nothing fancy. But this will have to do. It doesn't matter if you're reading it a… — Daniel H. Wilson Copy Share Image
When I started out, I didn't have any writing routine, I had a job. Writing was a hobby I indulged in over… — Neal Asher Copy Share Image
Terrifying. . . . A Dark Matter is populated with vivid, sympathetic characters, and driven by terrors both human and supernatural. It's… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Look at the great athletes, musician, artists, and writers. They all tap into a source. Some call that source God or soul… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
