I wish that the adults who are ‘in power’ cared more about what their children read. Books are incredibly powerful when we are young – the books I read as a child have stayed with...

Those who do not read criticism will rarely merit to be criticised.

I ride horseback – arthritic knees permitting – or listen to opera. Sometimes I cook. I used to do needlework, but it’s hard on my hands now, so I only do it occasionally, but I...

I don’t read music. I don’t write it. So I wander around on the guitar until something starts to present itself.

If you don’t read you will have nothing to write.

If you can listen to or read anything, but misspelled words offend you, raise your hadn.

This book is impossible to put down!” Well, apparently it’s also impossible to pick up.

It’s useless to try and make rhyme or reason of it, because one guy thinks one thing and the other guy sees a whole other thing. So I try not to take them too seriously....

I don’t write for publishers, certainly not for critics, and not for readers, But I am delighted that so many people have found my books enjoyable and want to continue to read them.

If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem.

Yesterday we were able to understand more than what we read; but today, we read more than what we can understand.

The first epics were intended for recitation; the literary epic is meant to be read.

With fantasy, one often has to think of a well-loved series before narrowing the selection to a favourite book. So it is with Zelazny. I’ve read his ‘Princes in Amber’ books so often, I know...

Oh, I love to read more than anything. I always love the ‘New Stories From the South’ anthologies – I think it’s the best short fiction collection anywhere, just filled with treasures.

Very few pilots even know how to read Morse code anymore. But if a pilot could read Morse code, he could tell which beacon he was approaching by the code that was flashing from it.

I don’t look at the tabloids. I don’t read the tabloids.

I am a huge fan of using social media to connect with people because I think there was this ‘ivory tower’ aspect of journalism where people might read a byline for years but have no...

If I’d waited until I was well rested to read, I never would have read anything.

I knew from the age of 16 that I wanted to be a writer because I just didn’t think I could do anything else. So I read and read and wrote short stories and dreamed...

When I read the script, I was like, Hello, woman in a box. I had to explore that to the end.

I want to live simply. I want to sit by the window when it rains and read books I’ll never be tested on. I want to paint because I want to, not because I’ve got...

You read glowing things and it doesn’t feel deserved. You read things that are critical and it cuts you to the bone.

And I feel like a real Dad when I read to her at night. She won’t sleep without one story, at least.

I’ve never read a screenplay in advance. You trust the artist.

All the successful personalities had one common element, they all liked reading books.

You want to know what makes me tick, I’ll tell you what makes me tick. I was a boy growing up in Brooklyn; I read a two-penny magazine called ‘The Hawk’s Nest.’ Nobody entered that...

When I go back and read my journals or fiction, I am always surprised. I may not remember having those thoughts, but they still exist and I know they are mine, and it’s all part...

I have become so used to having people say, ‘We loved your movie’ instead of ‘We read your book’ that now I merely say, ‘Thanks.’

But I honestly don’t read critics. My dad reads absolutely everything ever written about me. He calls me up to read ecstatic reviews, but I always insist that I can’t hear them. If you give...

Some of these things are true and some of them lies. But they are all good stories.

When I was little, my grandma used to get romance novels, and she would get hundreds of these, and she’d read a dozen a month.

Sometimes I read a script and it’s obvious from early on that it’s one where the suspension of disbelief has to develop strongly from page one. Some are more reality-based.

I want to celebrate the sadness that makes you feel everything so deeply. I want to throw a party for the wounds that make you so unabashedly human.

Every case involving cybercrime that I’ve been involved in, I’ve never found a master criminal sitting somewhere in Russia or Hong Kong or Beijing. It always ends up that somebody at the company did something...

I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.

When I was living in China, I learned to make things hyper-explicit because often they were being read by people whose command of English kept them from picking up what I thought were obvious signals.

And God knows I needed to be forgiven. So I had to forgive everybody. And then God – as I read in the word, you’re supposed to pray for your enemies. Try that one on.

I don’t write like this in order to show how clever and well read I am–though I am rather clever and well read as a matter of fact.

I’m not a masochistic reader. If something is just too dense or not enjoyable, even though I’m told it should be good for me, I’ll put it down. That said, most of what I read...

I don’t travel and tell stories, because that’s not the way these days. But I write my books to be read aloud, and I think of myself in that oral tradition.

When I read profiles of myself, I sometimes think: ‘I have spent my whole life struggling to understand my motivations and impulses, and I’ve never quite sorted them out.’

I read a lot of scripts that I just don’t find very funny.

Unless their use by readers bring them to life, books are indeed dead things.

Editors of open anthologies actively seek submissions from all comers, established and unknown. They are willing to read whatever the tide washes up at their feet.

The real difference between literature and pulp is the kind of emotional responses they elicit. Dan Brown can’t pierce your heart. Patricia Cornwell can’t make you read a sentence twice and then look sightlessly out...

I don’t read a great deal of fiction, to my shame, other than the classics.

To me, I read good reviews in lots of papers and bad reviews in lots of papers.

The number of books students read…is among the best indicators of student reading development.

Not being able to read and write music is not the same as being illiterate in speech and writing.

Forget boys and read a good book. Or study. When you’re twenty-five and ranking in the big bucks, men will be falling all over you’re a successful professional woman.