Nearly everyone I met, worked with, or read about was my teacher, one way or another.

Self learner; reading.

I’m not one of those people who says, ‘I never read reviews,’ because I don’t believe those people.

I’ve been an inveterate reader of literary magazines since I was a teenager. There are always discoveries. You’re sitting in your easy chair, reading; you realize you’ve read a story or a group of poems...

What refuge is there for the victim who is oppressed with the feeling that there are a thousand new books he ought to read, while life is only long enough for him to attempt to...

I believe in a world where there are no heroes, and I’ve read and know humanity a lot. There are moments that I admire in a person courage, intellect, hard work. These are the qualities...

When you discover the joy of reading, your mind opens to a world of wondrous discoveries and infinite possibilities.

I read so I might live a thousand lives in a lifetime. I write to control the particulars in those lives.

I was so afraid to even read a paper in front of my classmates. It is very funny because at that point my teachers would never have believed that I could speak in front of...

My message for all my readers is: Don’t believe in those who claim that youth is a passing disease you just have to get rid of. Don’t believe, that maturity is a goal and an...

It was not just that Ross Macdonald taught us how to write; he did something much more, he taught us how to read, and how to think about life, and maybe, in some small, but...

The guy that picked me up at the airport in 1985 when I was out in L.A. for my first audition was selling a script. I was a nobody coming off a plane to read...

My ideal vacation isn’t about complex maneuvers. I want to arrive somewhere foreign where I don’t speak the language, go hiking, then plop down in a sunny square, have drinks, read a book, and see...

As for collaboration – I have done a lot, 26 books, and found publishers increasingly resistive to them. It’s not that the books are bad; editors won’t even read them.

Ah, but is it not the mind that is the real grace of Homo sapiens? All the things to think about! All the things to read and appreciate! All the arts! All the things of...

As a pastor, I have a deep desire to lead people to God and encourage people to pray, read the Bible, and carry their faith into every part of their lives.

There are hard days to live. You awake to a day when you feel you’ve done it all before, and you’re going to do it again, so why do it at all.

Share a book and you’ll make a friend!

Reading to small children is a specialty.

Soma vitabu visivyopendeza vilivyoandikwa na waandishi mahiri.

Proust is a hero of mine. I read ‘A la recherche’ in one go, and I’m a very slow reader. It had an astonishing impact, reading it on my own and being my main company....

I write in a noisy, distracting world so the books can be read there.

I read to know the past, I write to express my love for the future.

I used to think I was the strangest person in the world but then I thought there are so many people in the world, there must be someone just like me who feels bizarre and...

I learned to read at two. I was in a Montessori school and they teach you to read really, really young.

I write for the same reason I read: because it’s all there is for me.

What I want, when I write a poem, is no more than this: that it be preserved in some published form so that, in principle, someone, somewhere, will be able to find it and read...

I’m obsessed with zombies. I like watching zombie movies and I read zombie books.

May you find comfort by reading and mediation on God’s word.

My whole thing is that I want to explore why you read books, what’s the purpose of reading, and maybe that it’s not that cool to hate something just because it’s popular.

I’ve always enjoyed that kind of thing – thinking about the production of narrative and why it is that when we read a novel, we don’t notice the fact that someone who might be very...

If people would write exactly what I wanted to read I wouldn’t feel so compelled to write myself.

I love the melodies in the Old Testament, how preachers highlight them when they read from the Scripture. But I was influenced forever by the New Testament. I love the Beatitudes, informing us that the...

No, but I do read a lot. I love to read. I could read for days and never stop. I use to be such a bookworm. I would barely look up to notice much of...

When you read a book, you create that tonal bandwidth. You set a tone for yourself, as you’re reading it, in which everything exists within the world of your imagination.

Good books make you ask questions. Bad readers want everything answered.

As Luke 24 shows, it’s possible to read the Bible, study the Bible, and memorize large portions of the Bible, while missing the whole point of the Bible.

If you don’t write, then read.

One of my comics is read by more people – around 70,000 – than will see my entire run at Manhattan Theater Club. That puts things in perspective.

I never read in bed, only in my study.

When a young reader tells you that they’d never finished a book outside of school until they read yours, or that they really needed to hear something that one of your characters says or thinks…...

When I was in kindergarten, I entered a competition and read 52 books in a week.

I definitely have an affection for detective fiction, and when I first read Dashiell Hammett’s ‘The Maltese Falcon,’ that book and its author made an enormous impression on me as a reader and a writer,...

I read science, because to me, that’s extremely exciting. It’s like a great detective story, and it’s happening right in front of us.

Get someone-anyone-to read books to you. Having books read to you at any age is the supremo ultimato of living.

If a book doesn’t inspire you to read more, it was not worth read.

I see wrinkles and lines, and wear glasses to read, which I hate. But I am in a better place in my body than I used to be.

I was four when I started modeling. My mom was very much an off-the-stage mom who knew nothing about the business. She married my stepdad when I was about four, and he had been an...

If you read ‘Lord of the Rings’ and dismiss it as a lie because it has orcs and elves, you’re missing the whole point of the story. If children don’t have to be concerned about...

I think that a lot of things are hard to read if you’re not in the vocabulary flow of that particular discourse. I sometimes forget that even though the words I’m using are fairly ordinary...