If people would write exactly what I wanted to read I wouldn’t feel so compelled to write myself.

I love the melodies in the Old Testament, how preachers highlight them when they read from the Scripture. But I was influenced forever by the New Testament. I love the Beatitudes, informing us that the...

No, but I do read a lot. I love to read. I could read for days and never stop. I use to be such a bookworm. I would barely look up to notice much of...

When you read a book, you create that tonal bandwidth. You set a tone for yourself, as you’re reading it, in which everything exists within the world of your imagination.

Good books make you ask questions. Bad readers want everything answered.

As Luke 24 shows, it’s possible to read the Bible, study the Bible, and memorize large portions of the Bible, while missing the whole point of the Bible.

If you don’t write, then read.

One of my comics is read by more people – around 70,000 – than will see my entire run at Manhattan Theater Club. That puts things in perspective.

I never read in bed, only in my study.

When a young reader tells you that they’d never finished a book outside of school until they read yours, or that they really needed to hear something that one of your characters says or thinks…...

When I was in kindergarten, I entered a competition and read 52 books in a week.

I definitely have an affection for detective fiction, and when I first read Dashiell Hammett’s ‘The Maltese Falcon,’ that book and its author made an enormous impression on me as a reader and a writer,...

I read science, because to me, that’s extremely exciting. It’s like a great detective story, and it’s happening right in front of us.

Get someone-anyone-to read books to you. Having books read to you at any age is the supremo ultimato of living.

If a book doesn’t inspire you to read more, it was not worth read.

I see wrinkles and lines, and wear glasses to read, which I hate. But I am in a better place in my body than I used to be.

I was four when I started modeling. My mom was very much an off-the-stage mom who knew nothing about the business. She married my stepdad when I was about four, and he had been an...

If you read ‘Lord of the Rings’ and dismiss it as a lie because it has orcs and elves, you’re missing the whole point of the story. If children don’t have to be concerned about...

I think that a lot of things are hard to read if you’re not in the vocabulary flow of that particular discourse. I sometimes forget that even though the words I’m using are fairly ordinary...

The piano is a universal instrument. If you start there, learn your theory and how to read, you can go on to any other instrument.

Literary criticism can be no more than a reasoned account of the feeling produced upon the critic by the book he is criticizing. Criticism can never be a science: it is, in the first place,...

My niece just turned one. I gave her a birthday card that read, “If you can read this, Happy Birthday!

From age 16, I lived and breathed wine. I read every magazine and book about wine.

Well, I think everything I’ve ever read contributes to the background from which I write.

Logos and branding are so important. In a big part of the world, people cannot read French or English–but are great in remembering signs

I’ve had the same, full-time assistant and typist for eight or nine years now. She’s read everything I’ve written, she types everything and does a good job, translates it and makes comments.

When I’m writing, my neural pathways get blocked. I can’t read. I can barely hold a conversation without forgetting words and names. I wish I could wear the same clothes and eat the same food...

Step inside your favorite storybook and become lost in a journey only your imagination can envision.

I’ve loved ‘Vanity Fair’ since I was 16 years old. You know, we’re all colonial hangovers in India, steeped in English literature. It is one of these novels that I read under the covers at...

People who don’t normally read make an exception for my books, possibly because they’re short.

When I read ‘Rocky V,’ it was a terrific story, a great script. Rocky died at the end. He has this devastating fight with Tommy Gunn, ends up in an ambulance with his head in...

Besides, I don’t understand people who read a book for pleasure and then ruminate on the book’s ideas. Paper was invented so we wouldn’t have to keep all those thoughts in our heads.

I gave up on new poetry myself 30 years ago when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between lonely aliens in a hostile world.

Read before you speak.

I do think the first time you read a script, that gut response is very important, and that probably plants a seed that continues to blossom throughout the whole experience.

I was doing a show in L.A. called ‘Celebrity Autobiography,’ where celebrities read excerpts from other celebrities’ books and hang themselves with their own rope.

And no matter what anybody says, I don’t believe all this trouble started when women got the vote. As far as I’m concerned, it goddamn well got started when you taught each other how to...

Your soul either feels lifted by something that you read, or it feels squashed by it.

I cannot assume emotions I do not feel, and must describe Jerusalem as I found it. Since being here, I have read the accounts of several travellers, and in many cases the devotional rhapsodies –...

In the light, we read the inventions of others; in the darkness we invent our own stories.

I’m aware of ‘Twilight,’ but I’ve never seen the movies or read any of the books. Frankly, the story leaves me cold – why do a vampire story about abstinence?

Besides the alternate universe offered by a book, the quiet space of a museum was my favorite place to go. My mom said I was an escapist at heart . . . that I preferred...

On gray days, when it’s snowing or raining, I think you should be able to call up a judge and take an oath that you’ll just read a good book all day, and he’d allow...

Just writing a lot doesn’t necessarily make you a better writer. You have to hear yourself as a writer, and the best way to do that is to read your writing out loud.

I really did try to write it so that an educated public that cares about issues like this doesn’t have to be a lawyer and can read it and understand it.

Imagine having a mother who worries that you read too much. The question is, what is it that’s supposed to happen to people who read too much? How can you tell when someone’s crossed the...

I don’t read music. I don’t write or read music.

Don’t be afraid to be afraid. Have fear, and then conquer the shit out of it.

Knowledge without wisdom is like a beautiful lady without morals

Jacksonville has more public libraries than people who know how to read.