I studied art at Queens College, taking very few courses in literature. But I've always loved reading poetry and grew up enjoying the so-called beat ….

I don't know what people should be reading. Only you know what you should be reading..

The liberal arts are the arts of communication and thinking. 'They are the arts indispensable to further learning, for they are the arts of reading, ….

The real threat to reading isn’t the time we spend hanging out, it’s the time we spend online..

Not all activities are equal... Those that involve genuine concentration - studying a musical instrument, playing board games, reading, and dancing -….

My activities tend to revolve around crossword puzzles, reading and playing piano and games with my friends..

There is something about the medium [in comics] that allows for a simulation of actual experience with the added benefit of actually reading. You're ….

Real myths are often strange and startlingly unfamiliar, and don't always give up their meanings easily; you have to tease them out, and for me, that….

Teenagers are always sneaking around in drawers where they shouldn't go and reading things they shouldn't be reading. And that's an attempt to try, I….

Until it is kindled by a spirit as flamingly alive as the one which gave it birth a book is dead to us. Words divested of their magic are but dead hi….

I always try to treat the book itself as the artwork. I don't want you to stop while you're reading one of my books and say, 'Oh! What a gorgeous ill….

Time passes slowly. Nobody says a word, everyone lost in quiet reading. One person sits at a desk jotting down notes, but the rest are sitting there ….

We write to expose the unexposed. Most human beings are dedicated to keeping that one door shut. But the writer's job is to see what's behind it, to ….

War is not for winning, Masha," sighed Koschei, reading the tracks of supply lines, of pincer strategies, over her shoulder. "It is for surviving..

For her, reading was directly linked to pleasure, not to knowledge or enigmas or constructions or verbal labyrinths..

Whether we are reading the Bible for the first time or standing in a field in Israel next to a historian and an archaeologist and a scholar, the Bibl….

I tried not to get too addicted to reading the Whedonesque website, because it could become obsessive. They were a charming and loyal bunch of people….

As writers become more numerous, it is natural for readers to become more indolent; whence must necessarily arise a desire of attaining knowledge wit….

If you think reading a book is hard, you should try writing one. Because it's even harder. It's still not as hard as writing a game, though. If you d….

Yet Irina had once tucked away, she wasn't sure when or why, that happiness is almost definitionally a condition of which you are not aware at the ti….

Throughout my reading life, I've enjoyed many memorable meals-if only fictionally. The oysters at dinner near the beginning of Anna Karenina, the din….