Sarah Palin - now don't laugh - is writing a book. Not just reading a book, writing a book. Actually, in the word of the publisher, she's 'collaborat….

It's been my experience in life if you just keep thinking and reading, you don't have to work..

My behavior is nonetheless, deplorable. Unfortunately, I'm quite prone to such bouts of deplorability--take for instance, my fondness for reading boo….

The capacity to love is tied to being able to be awake, to being able to move out of yourself and be with someone else in a manner that is not about ….

There are quite a number of people in the reading-room; but one is not aware of them. They are inside the books. They move, sometimes, within the pag….

Ah, how good it is to be among people who are reading!.

I write to get myself writing. That and read Wallace Stevens' "An Ordinary Evening in New Haven" for the umpteenth time. Certain authors for me, cert….

In fighting a bull you're always aware of a paradox concerning your perceptions of the bull. On the one hand it's your perceptions of the bull that g….

The nicest notes I've received from readers are those that tell me I've gotten them back into reading for entertainment. For me, there is no greater ….

If anyone spends almost the whole day in reading...he gradually loses the capacity for thinking...This is the case with many learned persons; they ha….

Reading goes faster if you don't sweat comprehension..

In the electronic age, books, words and reading are not likely to remain sufficiently authoritative and central to knowledge to justify literature..

Somehow reading a book never feels like sitting still..

For me as a kid, reading cyberpunk was like seeing the world for the first time. Gibson's Neuromancer wasn't just stylistically stunning; it felt lik….

Alcohol makes other people less tedious, and food less bland, and can help provide what the Greeks called entheos, or the slight buzz of inspiration ….

Reading aloud sounds like a good idea, but honestly, it doesn't work very well. Good dialogue in a book doesn't actually bear much resemblance to rea….

I do like a good mystery. I'm reading Edgar Allan Poe now. I also like autobiographies..

There is no question in my mind: reading Gandhi's autobiography changed my life..

Reading musses up my mind..

Uncontrollable consumerism has become a watchword of our culture despite regular and compelling calls for its end. The United States has more malls t….

he who should inspire and lead his race must be defended from travelling with the souls of other men, from living, breathing, reading, and writing in….