This was my only and my constant comfort. When I think of it, the picture always rises in my mind, of a summer evening, the boys at play in the churc….

Happy will be those who give ear to the words of the dead: - The reading of good works and the observing of their precepts..

I know every book of mine by its smell, and I have but to put my nose between the pages to be reminded of all sorts of things..

Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its spirit grows and strengthens..

In our daily lives, where we're bombarded by the fake and the trivial, reading serves as a way to stop, shut out the noise of the world, and try to g….

The fear of loss is an engine of horrors, but also a source of the greatest forms of heroism. There's not a lot of art that puts that in bold letters….

... the subjective viewpoint is the only one to use regarding a library. Your true library is a collection of the books you want.You may have deplora….

A lot of religious texts make for good reading. That's why they hold up..

People don't always realize that my parents shared a sense of intellectual curiosity and a love of reading and of history..

All children are heartless. They have not grown a heart yet, which is why they can climb tall trees and say shocking things and leap so very high tha….

I don't remember my father reading to me, but I remember him telling me bedtime stories. I got to pick what was in them, and then he'd make them up..

I grew up in a household where reading was encouraged. My mother believed in the power of words, and my father obviously did too..

I remember reading once that some fellows use language to conceal thought; but it's been my experience that a good many more use it instead of though….

And I ride horses, swim, do a lot of reading, writing..

Reading a good comic is a creative act. Watching a film is often a more passive experience, and since I'm interested in engaging that conversational ….

I'm always reading. And I keep a whole list of stories, often unusual stories. There are a hundred some-odd ideas on that list..

I've never really been a genre fan. I never grew up reading comic books, or was a horror buff..

I view askance a book that remains undisturbed for a year. Oughtn't it to have a ticket of leave? I think I may safely say no bookin my library remai….

That book taught me that by reading, I could live more intensely. It could give me back the sight I had lost. For that reason alone, a book that didn….

Do not read the newspapers..

I couldn't be more thankful to get my start on a soap opera. It was the hardest job I ever had. Got to practice in front of the camera, like, every d….