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All ballet, all reading, all music. That was my world, my inner world.

A bleak, black book, it engenders awe and despair. I have read it in its entirety 4 1/2 times, each time finding its resonance and beauty so great as to demand another reading. As I read, I found myself devastated by the thoroughness of the book's annihilating sensibility and revived by the beauty of its language, the complexity of its design, the melancholy, horror and stoic sympathy in its rendering of what we used to call the human condition.

When you look at a city, it's like reading the hopes, aspirations and pride of everyone who built it.

Fascism is cured by reading, and racism is cured by traveling

There is something I keep wanting to say about reading short stories. I am doing it now, because I many never have another occasion. Stories are not chapters of novels. They should not be read one after another, as if they were meant to follow along. Read one. Shut the book. Read something else. Come back later. Stories can wait.

Philadelphia is the only city, where you can experience the thrill of victory and the agony of reading about it the next day.

The heart changes...but we learn of it only from reading or by imagination; for in reality its alteration, like that of certain natural phenomena, is so gradual that, even if we are able to distinguish, successively, each of its different states, we are still spared the actual sensation of change.

A man of letters, merely by reading a phrase, can estimate exactly the literary merit of its author.

The decline in American pride, patriotism, and piety can be directly_x000D_attributed to the extensive reading of so-called 'science fiction' by our_x000D_young people. This poisonous rot about creatures not of God's making,_x000D_societies of 'aliens' without a good Christian among them, and raw sex_x000D_between unhuman beings with three heads and God alone knows what sort of_x000D_reproductive apparatus keeps our young people from realizing the true will_x000D_of God.

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

I remember failing reading in school at a young age, and you just kinda get left behind and I felt helpless.

The No Child Left Behind Program was an incentive to the schools to get their kids up to snuff on math and science and reading.

I worry that the level of interrupt, the sort of overwhelming rapidity of information — and especially of stressful information — is in fact affecting cognition. It is in fact affecting deeper thinking. I still believe that sitting down and reading a book is the best way to really learn something.
 And I worry that we’re losing that.

You know, I'm a big believer in touch and digital reading, but I still think that some mixture of voice, the pen and a real keyboard - in other words a netbook - will be the mainstream on that.

Reading newspapers in the state of Maine is like paying somebody to tell you lies.

I try to make what I have written tighter, stronger and more precise, eliminating every element that's not doing useful work. Then I go over it once more, reading it aloud, and am always amazed at how much clutter can still be cut.

As long as no more than a small minority are capable of reading and writing, universal alphabetization seems like a messianic project. Only once everyone has this ability does one notice the catastrophe that almost no one can do it properly.

I think reading is important in any form. I think a person who's trying to learn to like reading should start off reading about a topic they are interested in, or a person they are interested in.

We [Panthers] have not said much about the homosexual at all, but we must relate to the homosexual movement because it is a real thing. And I know through reading, and through my life experience and observations that homosexuals are not given freedom and liberty by anyone in the society. They might be the most oppresed people in the society.

The multitude of books is a great evil. There is no limit to this fever for writing.

I tell writers to keep reading, reading, reading. Read widely and deeply. And I tell them not to give up even after getting rejection letters. And only write what you love.