Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bella Thorne

I practice reading all the time. I read everything and having so many scripts to read, which really helps out as well.

John Taylor Gatto

Close reading of tough-minded writing is still the best, cheapest, and quickest method known for learning to think for yourself... Reading, and rigorous discussion of that reading in a way that obliges you to formulate a position and support it against objections, is an operational definition of education... reading, analysis, and discussion is the way we develop reliable judgment, the principle way we come to penetrate covert movements behind the facade of public appearances.

Margaret Mahy

Being a librarian certainly helped me with my writing because it made me even more of a reader, and I was always an enthusiastic reader. Writing and reading seem to me to be different aspects of a single imaginative act.

Jeanette Winterson

Reading is a rendezvous with your soul.

Jeaniene Frost

You know, in addition to your mind-reading abilities, I may have absorbed some sluttiness from your blood,

J. K. Rowling

Oh, there you are, Albus,' he said. 'You've been a very long time. Upset stomach?' 'No, I was merely reading the Muggle magazines,' said Dumbledore. 'I do love knitting patterns.

Grace Paley

I do lots of reading and speaking at many universities about literature and also about politics, which is as much a part of my life as the literature.

Sara Shepard

I really like reading about how families work together.

Samuel West

I did start reading quite young but I was always read to by my parents, who are both actors. Bedtime stories from when I was about two/three to when I was about 15. In fact they didn't stop until I eventually kind of kicked them out of my bedroom.

Thomas Cole

If the imagination is shackled, and nothing is described but what we see, seldom will anything truly great be produced either in Painting or Poetry

Anthony Storr

Imagination flourishes best in solitude.

Bertrand Russell

Without effort and change, human life cannot remain good. It is not a finished Utopia that we ought to desire, but a world where imagination and hope are alive and active.

Linda Chandler

Live in your imagination, not in your past.

Jesse Ventura

I tend to like to read history - recent history, because I find that much more intriguing than just a writer's imagination.

Albert Einstein

Knowledge is limited; but imagination encircles the world.

John Dos Passos

Great works of the imagination are not produced quickly nor do they take quick effect on the popular mind.

John Dewey

Just as the senses require sensible objects to stimulate them, so our powers of observation, recollection, and imagination do not work spontaneously, but are set in motion by the demands set up by current social occupations.

Joan Miro

Painting must be fertile. It must give birth to a world.. ..it must fertilize the imagination.