I read on the Internet that I was dead.

I try to let go of the intellect and just tell the story. I only read the page I have in front of me on the screen. Then when the whole story is told, I...

Loosers want it but only through the easy way. If action taking were like reading a story book, loosers would only love to open the picture pages

Startling as the Gospel of Judas sounds, it amplifies hints we have long read in the Gospels of Mark and John that Jesus knew and even instigated the events of his passion, seeing them as...

Take each day in your open palms and close your fists around it. This life is not done with you yet.

Nothing you’ll read as breaking news will ever hold a candle to the sheer beauty of settled science. Textbook science has carefully phrased explanations for new students, math derived step by step, plenty of experiments...

Can you tell by where my eyes are looking what I’m thinking? Hint: I’m staring directly at your vagina.

I didn’t really get London until I read Dickens. Then I was charmed to death by it.

Once I start reading something, I can’t stop. I obsessively read, which is a problem with long books!

I don’t even read the papers. I read ‘USA Today’ because it has color photos.

I know not everyone starts out reading high literature. If you read enough you might be drawn to some other things, so maybe those vampire books are what they call ‘gateway books.’ I just coined...

He talks about God, and loving God. he says that when we open to loving a person, whether that person is a spouse, friend, or child, we open our hearts to loving God. He says...

Every child deserves to be a boat cast out in a sea of books.

Read to live another life, even if only for a chapter.

The language of all the interpretations, the translations, of the Judaic Bible and the Christian Bible, is musical, just wonderful. I read the Bible to myself; I’ll take any translation, any edition, and read it...

I don’t normally have time to read, so when I go away I like to take a few books.

Man is what he reads.

Scholarship was one thing, drudgery another. I very soon concluded that nothing would induce me to read, let alone make notes on, hundreds and hundreds of very, very, very boring books.

If I hadn’t read all of Jane Austen and DH Lawrence, Tolstoy and Proust, as well as the more fun stuff, I wouldn’t know how to break bad news, how to sympathise, how to be...

Anyone should be able to read comics.

If you read all the time what other people have done, you will the think the way they thought.

All the things that were read to me by my father were stories about things becoming all right.

‘Gone With The Wind’ is one of the all-time greats. Read Margaret Mitchell’s book and watch the film again; it’s a soap opera in all its glory. It is superb and memorable.

I love to read poetry but I haven’t written anything that I’m willing to show anybody.

Jon Ronson makes me laugh. I’ve read all of his books.

I travel because it makes me realize how much I haven’t seen, how much I’m not going to see, and how much I still need to see.

Read different to think differently; world is already into rat race.

Do not let reading become a forgotten art

If I read or listened to critics of our music, I’d have been discouraged a long time ago.

You can only learn by opening yourself up to engage with different sources of information. How can you learn something if you never see it, read it, or hear it?

I want to read the employment section of the Bible. I think it’s simply called Job.

When you write a book for publication, you’re writing it for other people to read.

When I write a book… it’s the same essential approach to music as with books. It has to be something I want to hear or read. Hopefully the audience comes along, since that’s the only...

Reading—it’s the third best thing to do in bed.

When I’m feeling a little empty in the head, I like to go see movies or read to loosen things up there.

I don’t read other science fiction. I don’t read any at all.

The greatest solitude; reading!

Be great, read great books.

Only the weak invite their demons to live with them. Isn’t that right?

We sometimes received – and I would read – 200 manuscripts a week. Some of them were wonderful, some were terrible; most were mediocre. It was like the gifts of the good and bad fairies.

I do read on holiday, but it tends to be very lowbrow. I’m into really camp biographies, and I’m a shameless fan of Jilly Cooper.

Almost every time I speak to teenagers, particularly young female students who want to talk to me about feminism, I find myself staggered by how much they have read, how creatively they think and how...

I got into trouble a while ago for saying that I thought the internet led to increased literacy – people scolded me about the shocking grammar to be found online – but I was talking...

In 1978, when I was 17 and in my first year at university, I read approximately 3,500 pages of Dickens.

Comic books and The Chronicles of Narnia. My mother used to read those to me and my twin brother growing up.

I have a visual mind, so when I read a book, I get an instant picture in my head and it’s very clear.

Read it wisely, Little One, for the power of ignorance is great.

Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original author?

I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful; but I have never read in either of them: Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden.

Lost in a book is a great place to be found.