We do not enjoy a story fully at the first reading. Not till the curiosity, the sheer narrative lust, has been given its sop and laid asleep, are we ….

Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books..

Sometimes I lose a whole morning waiting on journalists and other people who look for me. But I always find some time for reading, talking to my frie….

I don't want learning, or dignity, or respectability. I want this music, and this dawn, and the warmth of your cheek against mine..

reading is a private act, private even from the person who wrote the book. Once the novel is out there, the author is beside the point. The reader an….

Considering Adrian had once gotten bored while reading while reading a particularly long menu, I had a hard time imagining he'd read the Hugo book in….

Whether I'm at the office, at home, or on the road, I always have a stack of books I'm looking forward to reading..

It is not in Montaigne, but in myself, that I find all that I see in him..

He wanted nothing, for the time being, except to understand .... Without advice, assistance or plan, he began reading an incongruous assortment of bo….

What an artist does, is fail. Any reading of the literature, (I mean the literature of artistic creation), however summary, will persuade you instant….

Oh, there you are, Albus,' he said. 'You've been a very long time. Upset stomach?' 'No, I was merely reading the Muggle magazines,' said Dumbledore. ….

I've made movies that were adaptations and I've been kind of frustrated by the process because, you know that old axiom, 'It's never as good as the b….

People in Germany are very, very responsive to the readings..

Reading is a mere makeshift for original thinking..

I get caught up in my bubble of reading, writing, or music..

If I'm not afraid when I'm reading a script, that means I know I've done it before. If I read something and think, Wow, I can't play this part, then ….

I prefer writing in the mornings, so to that extent I have a routine. I do reading and other things in the afternoon..

The Genie declared that in his time and place there were scientists of the passions who maintained that language itself, on the one hand, originated ….

A reader can never tell if it's a real thimble or an imaginary thimble, because by the time you're reading it, they're the same. It's a thimble. It's….

The happiest moments for me, creatively, are doing readings of a play around a table where there's no audience..

My mother finally took me to a child psychologist, who knew exactly what I was, but she just couldn’t accept it and kept trying to tell my folks I wa….