The paradoxical virtue of reading lies in distancing ourselves from the world so that we may make sense of it..

But reading is different, reading is something you do. With TV, and cinema for that matter, everything's handed to you on a plate, nothing has to be ….

We human beings build houses because we're alive but we write books because we're mortal. We live in groups because we're sociable but we read becaus….

We keep quiet about what we read. Our enjoyment of a book remains a jealously guarded secret. Perhaps because there`s no need to talk, or because it ….

It sounds extraordinary, but it's a fact that balance sheets can make fascinating reading..

... Oceanic malaise. I never saw anyone reading anything more demanding than a comic book. I never heard any youth express an interest in science or ….

One of the pleasures of reading is seeing this alteration on the pages, and the way, by reading it, you have made the book yours..

Reading alters the appearance of a book. Once it has been read, it never looks the same again, and people leave their individual imprint on a book th….

As I work day after day, inspirations from different places go into the work. It's combination, but it's also comparative. I'll be reading two books ….

When I am working on a painting, everything that I am thinking about at the time - be it current events, the books I am reading, personal events, inf….

When I post a review to book-blog.com it probably takes me - apart from writing the review, of course - 20 or 30 minutes to finish all my related tas….

What did it for me was a blurb on the back of a book I was reading. The blurber wrote - I just looked it up - that "Trials have provided some of the ….

I'm never sure who I'm writing for, or who's reading me, but I definitely see myself in conspiracy with my readers..

There is such seduction in a library of good books that I cannot resist the temptation to luxuriate in reading..

We know that children need help to read, and the best time to start them reading is very young. We believe that when children see adults from all wal….

I read all the time. I was reading a book I admire very much by Alice McDermot called Charming Billy..

I think technique can be taught but I think the only way to learn to write is to read, and I see writing and reading as completely related. One almos….

My reading was good enough to play big-band charts, but I ran into trouble with Claude (Thornhill)'s theme song "Snowfall," which had a repeating bas….

I don't read anything anymore. I don't have the eyesight. I read my own copy, that's all. I think I've read everything that's worth reading..

We teach reading, writing and math by [having students do] them. But we teach democracy by lecture..

My doctors told me this morning my blood pressure is down so low that I can start reading the newspapers..