'What is the use of a book', thought Alice, 'without pictures or conversations?'.

It was a show where you were given a quote out of current events and you had to identify who said it. I was reading eight newspapers a day and had co….

I think nowadays it doesn't really matter where we are physically located. We create our own culture around us to a large extent, whether it's what w….

I often have trouble falling asleep at night, so when I'm lying in bed I think up stories. That's where I do a lot of my thinking. I also get a lot o….

My mother was a first-grade teacher, so I credit her with this lifelong intellectual curiosity I have, and love of reading and learning..

Reading for writers is like training for athletes..

I don't like dudes. Not even for 1 second..

Faith is only as good as the one in whom it's invested..

If somebody says, "Oh, we're going to improvise!," I'm like, Oh, get me out of here..

You can find magic wherever you look. Sit back and relax, all you need is a book..

I'd go somewhere where no one spoke. I would take a stack of books up to my hips, and I'd read nonstop. And I'd be reading naked..

Yes, I know, shaming, isn't it? I always say you can take the girl out of the 80s, but you can't take the 80s out of the girl. Before I wrote my firs….

When we wrote that scene about the Sleepy Kittens where he's reading the storybook to the kids, it's like we've had to read these stupid books to our….

The book, that stubbornly unelectric artifact of pure typography, possesses resources conducive to the flourishing of the soul. A thoughtful reading ….

I started reading contemporary fiction in college or right after college. It wasn't as if I was steeped in experimental minimalism when I was twelve ….

I have an intimate relationship with books. After all, I take them with me into the bathtub-not an invitation I offer lightly..

Much of my reading time over the last decade and a half has been spent reading aloud to my children. Those children's bedtime rituals of supper, bath….

I am so sick of reading about another car bomb, another suicide bomber, another 10, 20, 30, 70, 100 people dead in a day, both Americans and Iraqis..

John Lott has done the most extensive, thorough, and sophisticated study we have on the effects of loosening gun control laws. Regardless of whether ….

I'm usually pretty open about what's going on with me..

There were books everywhere in my house. Books were very present. I just loved books. I never understood reading as anything but a pleasurable activi….