He was reading from the beginning so that he could get to the end, where the reader was assured that the knight and the fair maiden lived together ha….

If I want to spend the rest of my life reading one day's output of information, which is about what it would take, OK fine. But I personally prefer c….

The reading public is intellectually adolescent at best, and it is obvious that what is called ''significant literature'' will only be sold to this p….

The things that the novel does not say are necessarily more numerous than those it does say and only a special halo around what is written can give t….

If someone does learn about the world from reading a novel of mine, that makes me very happy. It's probably not what brings me into the novel in the ….

You can draw a penguin on a toilet reading The New York Times and it's adorable, but try doing it with an adult male character, and it's disgusting..

We need to add to the three R's, namely Reading, 'Riting, and 'Rithmetic, a fourth--- RESPONSIBILITY..

Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. The English reading public explains the reason wh….

The sad truth is that the civil rights movement cannot be reborn until we identify the causes of black suffering, some of them self-inflicted. Why ca….

She carried within herself a great fund of life, and her deepest enjoyment was to feel the continuity between the movement of her own heart and the a….

Her reputation for reading a great deal hung about her like the cloudy envelope of a goddess in an epic..

The [nineteenth-century] young men who were Puritans in politics were anti-Puritans in literature. They were willing to die for the independence of P….

When I left Iowa, I definitely never wanted to stand in front of a group of academics again and see if they approved of me. I made up my mind to take….

If one wishes to know love, one must live love, in action. Thoughts, readings and discourse on love are of value only as they present questions to be….

The strength of film is its accessibility and immediacy. But the strength of books is that freedom to really depict anything you want because people ….

On one occasion I got this really bizarre horoscope thing from someone. It was a full-on zodiac reading, charting and intersecting all this stuff. It….

I love watching old movies, reading and having some good meals. I have a very close group of friends and family. I try to spend time with the ones th….

A person of mature years and ripe development, who is expecting nothing from literature but the corroboration and renewal of past ideas, may find sat….

I'm a critic. That means you are a writer. So, yes, you have to make yourself an authority on whatever subject it's going to be. Music, movies, liter….

I haven't been reading anything on tour so far, I haven't had a minute. Any moment that I've had recently on the tour has been completely sleeping. B….

Don't see the point in reading ghost-written autobiographies, even though some of these published lives may fascinate me. The 'ghost' is always prese….