All my good reading, you might say, was done in the toilet. There are passages in Ulysses which can be read only in the toilet - if one wants to extr….

For most people, what is so painful about reading is that you read something and you don't have anybody to share it with. In part what the book club ….

Whenever I'm reading a book I enjoy, I always develop a mental list of the people I want to share it with..

All good and true book-lovers practice the pleasing and improving avocation of reading in bed ... No book can be appreciated until it has been slept ….

As a writer, I was deliberately creating an alternate world, and then populating it with experiences and people that I knew in this world, but I'd sh….

It is very important to be reading as well as writing. A doctor is not going to ignore new surgery practices..

We measure the success of schools not by the kinds of human beings they promote but by whatever increases in reading scores they chalk up. We have al….

There are two kinds of cryptography in this world: cryptography that will stop your kid sister from reading your files, and cryptography that will st….

Reading enables me to maintain a sense of something substantive– my ethical integrity, my intellectual integrity..

If I were reading a book and happened to strike a wonderful passage I would close the book then and there and go for a walk. I hated the thought of c….

A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon a….

When one read's Kierkegaard's profound analyses of anxiety and despair or Nietzsche's amazingly acute insights into the dynamics of resentment and th….

Your call will become clear as as your mind is transformed by the reading of Scripture and the internal work of God's Spirit. The Lord never hides Hi….

The Brahmins say that in their books there are many predictions of times in which it will rain. But press those books as strongly as you can, you can….

You can't know what a book is about until the very end. This is true of a book we're reading or writing..

Oh! it is absurd to have a hard-and-fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. More than half of modern culture depends on what one….

I turned down the first script offered to me, and the second. I lay on my back one day under an umbrella, in the garden, reading the third, and wonde….

It's interesting sometimes to read about the last days of past civilizations. It's hard not to notice during these readings that those last days were….

Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book h….

And don't forget, Sherrod Brown is black. There's a racial component here, too. And now, the newspaper that I'm reading all this from is The New York….

The way to improve our schools is not more money, but the reintroduction of moral and spiritual values, as well as the four R's: reading, 'riting, 'r….