The spark for 'In Praise of Slowness' came when I began reading to my children. Every parent knows that kids like their bedtime stories read... →
Carl Honore
We used to dial; now we speed dial. We used to read; now we speed read. We used to walk; now we speed walk. And of course, we used to date, and now... →
I learned to knit in 2002, six months after my 5-year-old daughter, Grace, died suddenly from a virulent form of strep. I was unable to read or... →
Ann Hood
Everyone has read about or knows someone who has gone through fertility treatments. It is an emotional nightmare, fueled by false hope and the... →
It is preposterous that the current members of the United States Senate and all of their predecessors for more than 200 years haven't been able... →
John Jay Hooker
The moment your kid's born you realize no one knows anything. No one goes to classes. You just have a kid. You can read all the books you like... →
Hugh Jackman
I have become so used to having people say, 'We loved your movie' instead of 'We read your book' that now I merely say... →
Charles R. Jackson
Because hip-hop has no requirements, you deal with people that have the least intelligence on the planet. Some of the people that compare themselves... →
Curtis Jackson
I read all of the stories that people write about me. The ones that are really interesting are the ones where they actually write their take on me as... →
I was very good at sitting. But I just read so much research about how horrible sitting is for you. It's like, it's really bad. It's like... →
A. J. Jacobs