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..

What we have are good gray ballplayers, playing a good gray game and reading the good gray Wall Street Journal. They have been brainwashed, dry-clean….

It has not been a good day. I lost my glasses early this morning and I had to go buy a pair of 79 dollar reading glasses today. 79 bucks. You can lit….

Fiction writing, and the reading of it, and book buying, have always been the activities of a tiny minority of people, even in the most-literate soci….

I am a crazy online shopper. My husband always jokes, Another box arrived! Airplanes used to be my sanctuary for reading books, but now I have to per….

You have to learn every day. You can't be playing every day, but you can be practicing. If you cannot be practicing with a net and others daily, you ….

There is nothing more luxurious than eating while you read - unless it be reading while you eat. Amabel did both: they are not the same thing, as you….

Seeing your name on the list for KP or guard duty when you're in the Army is like reading a bad review..

It's a matter of resisting what something made you feel before. And resisting that as a consumer is not easy. I know it isn't for me, and not just wh….

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

A library is a place where you can lose your innocence without losing your virginity..

I like to know what the gestation of the idea is, I like to know the foundation, and I do a lot of reading and research..

The most bizarre thing I've ever read about myself is that I was dead. That was kind of weird to read that I'm dead - mostly because I was reading it..

I'd like to thank readers. Every time you open a book, it is a strike against ignorance. Unless you're reading Sarah Palin..

Writing is tyranny ... but reading is democracy..