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.

It was huge to read the Proverbs of the day every morning, it was huge to read the Psalm of the day every morning and to get that in us and get us going before...

One of the coolest things about touring around, actually, is getting to meet people, and getting to pick up on things that other people like. So many times, people come up to me after a...

Guard your roving thoughts with a jealous care, for speech is but the dialer of thoughts, and every fool can plainly read in your words what is the hour of your thoughts.

If people want to be better writers, they can’t just read the blogs! You’ve got to look at something that’s outside this rushing world of evanescent words.

Like most of my friends in school, I was a member of multiple circulating libraries; and all of us, to begin with, borrowed and read the same things.

:Paintings are easy to see,” he said after a moment. “Open, presented flat to the eye. Words are not easy. Words have to be discovered, deep in their pages, deciphered, translated, read. Words are symbols...

I definitely subscribe to the idea that 9/11, to use an overused phrase, was a wake-up call. There was a year-long national teach-in on Islam – everyone read books and suddenly talked about Islam, and...

When you’re doing Sebring in the back straight at 185 or 187, and the car’s moving, you gotta know what to do with it, how to read it. Just the science of understanding shocks –...

Read nature; nature is a friend to truth.

The next day, I got a phone call from him and he told me to come and read for a movie called New Jack City. So I went over there and they told me I...

Every night I pray I whisper into a megaphone, not only so God is sure to hear, but also my neighbors, because I pray to God He’ll deliver pestilence and plague to the residents next...

I would come, many years later, to understand why ‘To Kill A Mockingbird’ is considered ‘an important novel’, but when I first read it at 11, I was simply absorbed by the way it evoked...

They say that to escape reality is when you sleep, but when you sleep your sub conscious is in control of your dreams. For me to escape reality is when I read and write. When...

Parents who daily read Robert Lewis Stevenson to their children and surrounds them with blocks, plastic animals, and some cardboard boxes or kitchen pots and pans are going to produce a qualitatively different child from...

If you don’t read the Holy Bible, you don’t stand a chance with the antichrist.

I’m trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across—not to just depict life—or criticize it—but to actually make it alive. So that when you have read something by me...

I’m talking to you and it’s basically a direct communication, whereas if I’m writing a letter to you and you read the letter, there are like 12 extra deconstruction and reconstruction steps in the communication.

I don’t read much of what I write because I worry about unintentionally borrowing something.

A child’s imagination can be found in the heart of a good book.

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

In quiet moments, I love to read.

I am more optimistic, both about reading and about books. There will always be non-readers, bad readers, lazy readers – there always were. Reading is a majority skill but a minority art. Yet nothing can...

I love to read books. I love to read anything really, even the back of the cereal box.But there is nothing that will ignite your soul like reading God’s Word.

When I buy a new book, I always read the last page first, that way in case I die before I finish, I know how it ends. That, my friend, is a dark side.

If you cannot read all your books, at any rate handle, or as it were, fondle them – peer into them, let them fall open where they will, read from the first sentence that arrests...

I don’t know if younger poets read a lot of, you know, the poets – the established poets. There was a lot of pretty boring stuff to sort of put up with and to add...

Nothing you hear or read will be of any benefit to you unless you meditate and digest itdeeply.

You need someone to see what you’ve done, to read it and to understand it and to appreciate what’s gone into it.