Astronomy Quote by Joanna Coles

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

— Henry David Thoreau

I got interested in Zen when I was a teenage beatnik on the streets of San Francisco. And it was my interest in Zen,…

— Sam Hamill

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

“In some ways it seemed wrong that he lived here now, in this solitary place. At least part of the time he ought to…

— Judith McNaught

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