Easy reading is damn hard writing. But if it’s right, it’s easy. It’s the other way round, too. If it’s slovenly written, then it’s hard to read. It doesn’t give the reader what the careful...

At the breakfast table we are footnoting everything that we read. We don’t recognise it as such but we encounter an article in the newspaper and then suddenly we recall that a friend had a...

I’ve read short stories that are as dense as a 19th century novel and novels that really are short stories filled with a lot of helium.

I realise people exist who don’t read. But it’s like I knew there were people who didn’t breathe or eat: I can’t imagine a life like that.

I like 1977 because it is more primitive. If it were modern day, like one Universal guy was like wouldn’t they just use their cell phone? I guess he did not read that it was...

Dinosaurs are the jumper cables to the human mind. Kids can’t curb their enthusiasm when they’re in a hall of dinosaurs and mammoths and mammoth hunters and trilobites and giant fish that could chomp up...

These programs and reading series are the fruit of an intellectually exhausted literacy industry that lost its way long ago, even as we mutely accepted its misguided agenda – to complicate reading and literacy so...

It has never been necessary for me to learn how to read music.

If the bible be true, God commanded his chosen people to destroy men simply for the crime of defending their native land. They were not allowed to spare trembling and white-haired age, nor dimpled babes...

Jack reads too many books. He thinks we’re going to drive all year and have great adventures.

I’m not an academic; I’m just a bookish Joe who gets passionate about certain writers and suddenly wants to read everything they’ve ever written and find out why they wrote it.

I spend money on convenient, comfortable and luxurious things; I spend money on books too.

I no longer buy papers or tabloids or magazines or read blogs. I used to. But it was just filling up my day with hatred.

I read a book a day when I was a kid. My family was not literary; we did not have any books in the house.

I asked, how is knowledge found? ‘You must learn how to read, little sister,’ he said.

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...

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?

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.

Don’t feed your body and keep your spirit starving. Butter bread for your body and living bread for your spirit. Read the Bible every day and keep your spirit away from hunger.

I read; I travel; I become

To learn, read; to understand, participate.

Read every book, blog, website, whatever, about what you want to be an expert in.

Some words are invisible—namely spoken words—but that only means I read them with my ears. But people are rude, and they often speak to me when I’m trying to read.

I do read a lot, and I think in recent years the ratio between the amount of non-fiction and fiction has tipped quite considerably. I did read fiction as a teenager as well, mostly because...