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..

Reading is one of the greatest forms of magic available to us on the planet..

In reading, the mind is, in fact, only the playground of another's thoughts..

The strength you've insisted on assigning to others is actually within yourself..

He told himself that he would have to start reading thicker books: they lasted longer, and made more comfortable pillows..

A book is a device to ignite the imagination..

I was reading about how countless species are being pushed toward extinction by man's destruction of forests. . . . Sometimes I think the surest sign….

You look at Vladimir Radmanovic, this guy is cut from stone. As if Michelangelo was reading and a lightening bolt flashed before him..

I think all good narration contains an element of mystery and suspense. If it didn't, if the storyline were predictable, we would have no interest in….

Reading is seeing by proxy..

You write with ease, to show your breeding, But easy writing's vile hard reading..

Good reading makes for damn hard writing..