Books Quote by Kate DiCamillo

In our time, when the literature for adults is deteriorating, good books for children are the only hope, the only refuge.

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

The media is too concentrated, too few people own too much. There's really five companies that control 90 percent of what we read, see…

— Ted Turner

Memory: We retain: 10 percent of what we read; 20 percent of what we hear; 30 percent of what we see 50 percent of…

— Anonymous

Eighty-five percent cannot read when they enter the security forces of Afghanistan. Why? Because the Taliban withheld education during the period of time in…

— James G. Stavridis

Research shows that when we read words on paper, it reduces our stress levels by nearly 70 percent. We also read more carefully than…

— Margaret Heffernan

I think book clubs should read more contemporary poetry.

— Chang-Rae Lee

Honestly, I haven't the time to read contemporary writers. I know this is awful, but in the main it is true.

— William Golding

I like Wallace Stevens, Robert Frost, but some of the older ones it's hard for me to sit down with - when I sit…

— Samuel Ervin Beam

I don't like to read contemporary fiction while writing - I need a sense of isolation, a kind of silence, and I don't want…

— Cynthia Ozick

While I love to read contemporary fiction, I'm not drawn to writing it. Perhaps it's because the former journalist in me is too inhibited…

— Geraldine Brooks

Anyway I read more contemporary poetry than contemporary fiction so my mind goes first to a kind of crass "conceptualism" that repeats vanguard gestures…

— Ben Lerner

I can't picture going to a beach, or anywhere on vacation, without a couple of books as companions.

— Rosecrans Baldwin