You will learn most things by looking, but reading gives understanding. Reading will make you free..

When I was nine I spent a lot of my time reading books about the history of comedy, or listening to the Goons or Hancock, humour from previous genera….

If you have feelings about reading, you feel the rhythm of prose or of a poem like music. It awakens something in your soul and then of course you st….

Keep reading books, stay in school. I encourage kids to read as much as they can, I challenge you to read a book every two weeks, like I try to..

The great appear great to us..

I learned so much about myself from reading this script and doing this movie [Shelter] because the level of judgment and the lack of humanity I saw i….

I love to sing, so I just figured that I was going to sing or something..

As centuries of dictators have known, an illiterate crowd is the easiest to rule; since the craft of reading cannot be untaught once it has been acqu….

Scripture is the most up-to-date and relevant reading that ever comes my way..

Libraries, whether my own or shared with a greater reading public, have always seemed to me pleasantly mad places, and for as long as I can remember ….

More people should use their library..

For someone who loves literature, and all books on principle, being asked to name three titles over a half century of serious reading is akin to aski….

It is by doing anything that we become anyone.

No matter how much time you spend reading books or following your intuition, you're gonna screw it up. Fifty times. You can't do parenting right..

In five minutes the earth would be a desert, and you cling to books..

These days, most of my interactions with young people are centered on the poetry or theater classes I teach, so the students I know are reading conte….

I try and picture you reading this -- there is a sense that as I write I try and get nearer to you, connect in my mind with you..

Growing up, I never gave a thought to being a writer. All I ever wanted to be was a traveler and explorer. Science-fiction allowed me to go places th….

I did have a child, and I was reading a lot of picture books to her, but at the same time writing a children's book was something that I'd been wanti….

I always read everything on the desks of people I went to see in Moscow, London, Paris I found it quite useful..

I've never killed anybody... but I've definitely thought about it..