I’m very affected by what I watch and read.

Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write.

I myself never make any notes. Usually, if I write something down, I can’t read it afterwards.

What I like in novels that I read and enjoy is interplay of theme: the mystery of how we seem to be so separate as human beings.

The one thing that I would say that defines me is I love to learn. I get excited about new things. I buy more books than I read or finish.

I never examined what I did in any great detail because I thought it would spoil things. I never read the scripts at all carefully, and never wanted to know what was going on, because...

The trouble in life is not that you are extraordinarily or ordinarily talented but you are read posthumously.

In our fathers’ time nothing was read but books of feigned chivalry, wherein a man by reading should be led to none other end, but only to manslaughter and bawdry.

I want my readers to feel, to think, sometimes to laugh. But most of all I want them to enjoy a good read.

If a movie doesn’t even have financing yet, they’ll do a table read for it at a casting director’s office with actors, for the producer and the writer, just to hear if the movie is...

Read what you like, not what you’re told to like. That way you’ll read for a lifetime.

The most comfortable place for a tired mind is in the lap of a book.

Growing Literacy of the Heart and Mind Cultivates the Landscape of a Child’s Future.

I haven’t read any of the autobiographies about me.

The New York Times Bestseller ‘The Amateur,’ written by Ed Klein, former editor of the ‘New York Times Magazine,’ is one of the best books I’ve read.

I read all of the stories that people write about me. The ones that are really interesting are the ones where they actually write their take on me as opposed to just printing what I...

When the clock reads 3:00, I don’t call it three o’clock, I call it three hundred, and I remember the Spartans. At 3:01, however, I remember what I was doing at 2:59, and I get...

I’ve always been curious about how much of our cultural baggage we bring to what and how we read. I suspect we bring a lot, although we like to think we don’t.

I’ll bet opening a store called Boobs and Books would increase literacy. I prefer a hands-on approach to learning.

I had a very mixed kind of childhood reading. I read the childhood classics like ‘Robinson Crusoe,’ ‘Alice in Wonderland,’ ‘Chums Annual.’ At the same time, I read an enormous number of American comics because...

But, for instance, when I was awfully young, I read all the Oz books. They were an enormous influence on me.

Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.

I am a passionate reader.New interested books keep adding on my reading list. My wildest dream is to complete reading all the books.

The first piece of ‘long’ fiction I wrote was a novella parody of Stephen King’s ‘Christine.’ I was in high school, and my version was about a kid with a possessed locker instead of a...

You can’t teach a child what to dream, but you can teach them how to dream. #imagination

A little known fact: I read all the time. books were the one thing that got me out of Gatlin, even if it was only for a little while.

I did everything pretty cliche as an actor in New York. I read the trades, I sent out ‘head shots.’

Reading and writing are connected. I learned to read very early so I could read the comics, which I then started to draw.

Total oblivion is the fate of almost everything in this world. I’m very likely to suffer that same fate; my work will probably not be remembered, and if any of it is, if any of...

Butterfly causing a tsunami with on beat of its wing.

It’s a good thing I don’t read everything Eddie says, or I’d be up in arms and not enjoying my life.

I write five pages a day. If you would read five pages a day, we’d stay right even.

A man, to read, must read alone. He may make extracts, he may work at books in company; but to read, to absorb, he must be solitary.

I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of our intellectuals can’t read any poetry.

At present I answer about 100 letters a month, and read 300 emails.

People who have seen me read usually come up afterwards and invite me to be a part of something.

My books hold between their covers every story I’ve ever known and still remember, or have now forgotten, or may one day read; they fill the space around me with ancient and new voices.

I love to read. And right now I’m on my last hundred pages of ‘The Corrections’ by Jonathan Franzen, and I really enjoyed it. His writing is just – he’s one of those writers where...

When I graduated from college, I moved to New York and started doing improv because I read all about the early ‘Saturday Night Live’ guys having come through Second City and learning how to improvise,...

A homeless man visited my store today. The few quarters that he had in his pocket he invested on books. I offered him free books, but he insisted on giving me his quarters. He walked...

Sometimes, readers, when they’re young, are given, say, a book like ‘Moby Dick’ to read. And it is an interesting, complicated book, but it’s not something that somebody who has never read a book before...

Before I read the ‘Bloody Sunday’ script, I have to admit I hadn’t thought about it that much. There was probably even part of me which assumed there was no smoke without fire. That the...

We like to take credit when we get a new idea, as if we originated the idea in our brain, but what we actually did was no less extraordinary: we channeled the idea.

When God opens a new page in your life, make photocopies of it, read it and share it with other people. Some may hear it when you read it, others may tear it when you...

For fiction, I’m not particularly nationalistic. I’m not like the Hugo Chavez of Latin American letters, you know? I want people to read good work.

I foresee the day when we shall read nothing but telegrams and prayers.

Pornography was not meant to be looked at. Pornography was meant to be read—on Braille-embossed condoms.

I love books so much. I’ve read more books than anyone else I know.

I’m just writing a story that I want to read.

My books, my paradise!