Few things leave a deeper mark on the reader, than the first book that finds its way to his heart..

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 ….

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….

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 ….

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..

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..

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….

I just think that the world of workshops - I've written a poem that is a parody of workshop talk, I've written a poem that is a kind of parody of a g….

We never stop reading, although every book comes to an end, just as we never stop living, although death is certain..

Robert Frost really started this whole thing rolling. He was, I believe, the first poet who started going to colleges. Before that, poets didn't give….

For the traditional fantasies, a lot more of my research comes from reading rather than doing. I like my worlds to feel real, so I do a lot of world ….

There are definitely some tricks and techniques to a good reading. Rewarding the audience that shows up to your reading is very important and you can….

Whether or not this story has a happy ending depends, of course, on who is reading it. Whether you are a wolf or a girl..

Certainly, we do not need to be soothed and entertained always like children. He who resorts to the easy novel, because he is languid, does no better….

I started reading. I read everything I could get my hands on...By the time I was thirteen I had read myself out of Harlem. I had read every book in t….

You learn to write by writing, and by reading and thinking about how writers have created their characters and invented their stories. If you are not….