A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life..

I liked the place I came from. But a lot of what I liked about it was that I had come from there..

Those who scorn you taunt only themselves -- I knew this without reading one word; because in reading one is reminded of the truth man is given at bi….

So much of reading and writing to me is about being elsewhere, no matter how much I love where I am..

Even as a teenager we got interested in the Beats, Dada, and Surrealism, and so on. What drew us to those was that their lives were their art. It was….

To my son, If you are reading this letter, then I am dead..

I was reading emails from women who are alternately chuckling or outraged. One of them said, "Do you hate women? Would you just be honest?" No, folks….

I'm writing as I'm reading. I'm constantly already engaged in dialogue with the critics. None of these are my ideas solely. They are my form of enter….

If you're reading a book that I've written in the first person, without named characters, you will periodically perhaps as a reader remind yourself: ….

I have always felt that I understood a phenomenon only to the extent that I could visualise it. Much of the charm organic chemical research has for m….

Any chemist reading this book can see, in some detail, how I have spent most of my mature life. They can become familiar with the quality of my mind ….

I have odometer readings, kids; all sorts of measurements of what I've been doing for the last 20 years. I get it. I get that it was a while ago..

I can't predict how reading habits will change. But I will say that the greatest loss is the paper archive - no more a great stack of manuscripts, le….

In a polite age almost every person becomes a reader, and receives more instruction from the Press than the Pulpit..

One of the things that is interesting about reading conspiracy theory is that much of what folks think is conspiracy is really many people acting in ….

You don't read it in the sense of reading a message; it doesn't work like that. What's happening is that the Shadows are responding to the attention ….

Is it advisable to spread out all the conveniences of culture before people to whom a few steps up a stair to a library is a sufficient deterrent fro….

I've always liked elliptical writing, whether it's Kafka or Paula Fox, and I'm often bored by writers who explain too much. I think that becomes jour….

I'm always conscious of the fact that a book starts, basically, with a kid in a lap, and a parent reading to them. If I'm not at least understanding ….

I owe everything I am and everything I will ever be to books..

The highest earthly enjoyments are but a shadow of the joy I find in reading God's Word..