645 quotes found
“Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.”
“I remember reading 'The Hobbit' on a car trip from Ohio to Mississippi and getting out at a rest-stop in Mississippi and feeling jet-lagged at my return from Middle-earth.”
“All of the narration in 'Smile' is first-person. Most of the books that I grew up reading had first-person narrators for some reason. My diaries were written in this voice, and since this story is ...”
“My favorite books are the ones that make me smile for hours after reading them. I want that for my readers, for the sweetness to linger. Sort of like chocolate, but without the calories.”
“I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything.”
“Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others.”
“I'm reading a lot of poetry because it's a lot easier to dip in and dip out when you've got 10 minutes to yourself.”
“I like cups of tea and reading books and poetry and old people things.”
“I've been reading poetry publicly for 20 years, and this is what you do - you express, you sometimes dig a bit to get a conversation started. That's the point of poetry. You're supposed to go, 'Hmm...”
“When I became poet laureate, I was in a slightly uncomfortable position because I think a lot of poetry isn't worth reading.”
“There are distinct duties of a poet laureate. I plan a reading series at the Library of Congress and advise the librarian. The rest is how I want to promote poetry.”
“Reading a piece of poetry with no beat in front of 20 people is way more challenging than rocking for 10,000 people.”
“Poetry seems to sink into us the way prose doesn't. I can still quote verses I learned when I was very young, but I have trouble remembering one line of a novel I just finished reading.”
“I got scouted for modeling on the street. I'm such a tomboy - still am. I just never thought about modeling before, but I thought, 'Ooh, interesting, similar world, perhaps it's a way into somethin...”
“Sometimes poetry is inspired by the conversation entered into by reading other poems.”
“There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.”
“Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere.”
“When I realized I was depressed, then I started reading up about it. When I read that one in four people are depressed, I felt that I'm not the only one. I also felt that how many people must be fe...”
“Reading a script is usually as exciting as reading a boilerplate legal document, so when you read one that makes you feel as if you're seeing the movie, you know it's something different.”
“All the information you could want is constantly streaming at you like a runaway truck - books, newspaper stories, Web sites, apps, how-to videos, this article you're reading, even entire magazines...”
