Reading gives liberty to your mind.

People choose to read, and it takes effort. It’s not one of those hobbies that asks nothing of the person who is doing it. It’s more than a hobby.

He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he...

The more I read, the more I realise what I don’t know.

I want to write a book so long that it will take the average person their whole life to read. It will be exactly the same length as the Bible.

I knew how to read a contract by 10 years old, but I didn’t know what it meant for somebody to come in and tell me they loved me and kiss me goodnight. That’s a...

When I began going to school and learned to read, I encountered stories of other people and other lands.

My TV’s remote control didn’t have a source of energy, so I poured coffee in it. Now I can read any book I want.

What you read between the covers of your Bible is wisdom for a lifetime, rock-solid, forever truth—truth you can stand on, live by, and trust…forever.

I started writing to please myself, a story I would like to read, and that is still true.

There are so many people in the world who cannot read English or French or whatever.

If you see most people neglect the Bible, and many that can read never look into it, let it not harden you and make you think lightly of it, and that it is a book...

It feels so good to be able to be part of an action flick like ‘The Raid’ and to read the rave reviews in a number of film festivals.

I’ve been reading Tanith Lee since I was a teenager, beginning with ‘The Birthgrave’ and ‘The Storm Lord.’ Only recently did I discover, to my delight, how many more of her books I’ve yet to...

Escape to Read and Read to Escape!

The day of the great jazz improviser who doesn’t know how to read music is over.

I play with my grandchildren. I tend to my garden, which I love. Of course, I love to read, and family is really what it’s all about.

The process of writing a novel begins with a pang, a moment of recognition, and a situation, a character, or something you read in a paper, that seems to go off, like a solar flare...

Most of the stuff I’ve read about me has been true.

You Are Not Special”, 6-12)

I think I had a particular moment when I was 15 years old. I read ‘Crime and Punishment,’ and that book just, I think, more than any other book made me want to be a...

Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.

If I like a book, I tend to read the author’s entire collection. But I choose mainly through personal recommendations, general word of mouth and book reviews.

If I make you read, then I’ll keep quiet. If I make you think, then I’ll keep reading. If I make you smile, then I’ll keep writing.

I deliberately never read about films before I see them.

Just read one book a month and at the end of they year you would be totally different but an impressive personality.

You learn a lot by reading and even more by sharing.

I would never require anyone to read any book. That seems antithetical to why we read – which is to choose a book for our personal reasons. I always shudder when I’m told my books...

I don’t know how the editors are going to take it or how it may be received. But to some extent I’m hoping that with the next book, when people pick it up and read...

Life’s adventures make great reading!

All summer, I read fiction because you must read for the pleasure and beauty of it, and not only for research. I don’t read thrillers, romance or mystery, and I don’t read self-help books because...

No policeman had ever arrested anyone for over-reading; but ignorance prosecutes those who under-read. You begin to stop growing on the day you stop learning, so why not keep learning and keep growing!

Mishaps in life echoes for eternity. Weeks from now, I will be harvesting my glory. Imagine greater!

The sky never falls with the rain. It is never weighed down by all that it carries. It takes all of its anchorsand turns them into stars. Learn from this.

Just as our ancient ancestors drew animals on cave walls and carved animals from wood and bone, we decorate our homes with animal prints and motifs, give our children stuffed animals to clutch, cartoon animals...

When I read a script, if I feel it’s written with the idea of just bashing other people, then I shy away from it. Sometimes it’s some guy coming out with his own hatred, and...

I seem to be one of the few people in journalism who never worked or wrote for the ‘Boston Phoenix.’ I certainly read and admired it, and feel the same general malaise at news that...

The writer in her went silent and hid when her revealing words were wide-spread read.

I love getting cookbooks – people will give them to me, and I read them like novels and file everything away.

While I was writing I assumed it would be published under a pseudonym, and that liberated me: what I wrote was exactly what I wanted to read.

The more you read,the eager you read many more.

When you go to auditions, pretend you already have the job and you’re just presenting – almost like you’re at the table read. Don’t go in with an air of, ‘Please like me,’ or, ‘Please...

Sometimes when I’m really enjoying a book, I’ll read a sentence or paragraph and just think – how can someone’s head be wired in such a way that they’d come up with that?

I feel less alone when I read the books of Ratzinger.

Have you ever read the back of the Newman’s Diavolo pasta sauce? Dad on the front is dressed like the devil with a little beard and horns. He says that he sells his soul to...

I’ve seen the odd tarot reader and had my palm read in various countries and explained to me in many strains of broken English. Did I believe a word? To be honest, I didn’t understand...

On getting lost in a book. Set adriftA life unknownConnections formLove is sewn

In College average and numbers means everything to a guy.

worksheets – the archenemy of abundant, purposeful reading (and discussion and writing).

I always read what I write out loud, and I did that long before any radio thing. My editor finds that unusual.