Control Quote by James Taylor

I am sure that as soon as speech was invented, efforts to suppress and control it began, and that process of suppression continues unabated.

— Gilbert S. Merritt, Jr

I began reading in French. I didn't read in English until high school.

— Laila Lalami

I began reading Harper Lee's novel in the skimpy shade of a pine outside my grandmother's house, fat beagles pressing against me, begging for…

— Rick Bragg

I almost obsessively began reading about what was happening with the so-called Islamic State. But I couldn't find an angle on the story.

— Matthew Heineman

I grew up in Mississippi being told it was a great place, but not feeling that. When I finally began reading seriously, literature showed…

— Richard Ford

I began reading everyhing in the family library. Kidnapped, Treasure Island, Robinson Crusoe. And of course, if you're running out of books to read…

— Robin Hobb

What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.

— Henry David Thoreau

History has been my primary intellectual passion ever since, as a boy in Southern California, I began reading books on World War II and…

— Max Boot

He wanted nothing, for the time being, except to understand … Without advice, assistance or plan, he began reading an incongruous assortment of books;…

— Ayn Rand

“So the beloved children's book author took a deep breath, opened his own book to the very first page, and began reading, hoping with…

— Chris Colfer

“I reached over, opened it in the middle, and began reading Tolstoy's War and Peace. Nothing had changed. It was still a lousy book.”

— Charles Bukowski

A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What…

— Henry David Thoreau