Reading poetry and reading the great works of the canon that we were reading in the '60s and the '70s and '80s was mind altering..

Read and Re-Read--"Re-reading, we always find a new book..

One piece of advice can be universally handed out, and it applies equally to speaking, understanding, reading, and writing. If in the course of any o….

Reading was like a drug, a dope. The novels created moods in which I lived for days..

Working as an editor was like being a professional reader, and the better I became at reading the better I became at writing..

Reading activates and exercises the mind. Reading forces the mind to discriminate. From the beginning, readers have to recognize letters printed on t….

What do our clergy lose by reading their sermons? They lose preaching, the preaching of the voice in many cases, the preaching of the eye almost alwa….

I was passionate about reading from an early age, and I would always be carrying a different book each week..

I doubt whether the Revolution has, in essentials, changed Russia at all. Reading Gogol, or Dostoevsky for that matter, one realizes how completely t….

I love to read different books on completely different subjects at the same time. I cannot focus on one. I read a few pages of literature, then I jum….

The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates..

Sylvie's knowledge, like Izzie's, was random yet far-ranging, 'The sign that one has acquired one's learning from reading novels rather than an educa….

From the little reading I had done I had observed that the men who were most in life, who were molding life, who were life itself, ate little, slept ….

I used to take my short stories to girls' homes and read them to them. Can you imagine the reaction reading a short story to a girl instead of pawing….

Reading makes all other learning possible. We have to get books into our children's hands early and often..

He does not write at all whose poems no man reads.

it is very well worthwhile to be tormented for two or three years of one's life, for the sake of being able to read all the rest of it..

After reading hundreds of e-mails, I have made MY decision. By pulling my opening Oct 3rd, You (ESPN) stepped on the Toes of The First Amendment Free….

Half the time I read Hayek's The Sensory Order with amazement at the extent of his reading and comprehension. He is right most of the time..

Sometimes I imagine a surveyor 100 years from now reading my plan, retracing my boundaries, and finding the monuments that I set. It's an honor to ma….

Since you are my readers, and I have not been much of a traveler, I will not talk about people a thousand miles off, but come as near home as I can. ….