Art making Quote by Saul Bellow

When you read, I'm sure you don't realize that your eyes are going backwards and forwards and to this place and that place. Mine…

— Terry Pratchett

“Rest your eyes and then read till they fall out of your head.”

— Frank McCourt

I think there's a joy to be had in taking readers where they just don't want to go. If you are writing a properly…

— Neel Mukherjee

I routinely oscillate between exultation and despair. Maybe at the end of the day I feel pretty good about what I've written, but the…

— Barbara Ehrenreich

“Read this warning. Take this heed. If not yours, you may not read. Once you do begin to read, your eyes will itch, burn,…

— Teresa Joyce Jackson

I kind of go in waves with reading. Sometimes I read all the time, and sometimes I can't get settled enough to focus.

— Conor Oberst

I think you start to prepare the minute you read something.

— Sean Penn

Force yourself to reflect on what you read, paragraph by paragraph.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The more you read, the more you calm down.

— Robert M. Pirsig

How can you stay in touch with what's going on if you don't read everything?

— Monty Williams

“I always get muscle aches in my eyes after a few hours of reading," she said. "Doesn't matter what. The closeness does it. All…

— Ryan Knighton

I try to deal with my serious reading before work.

— Donna Shalala