I don't believe in lecturing people. It's much more effective to present reading as a fun, rewarding pastime..

Trust me when you read the script for Bad Santa 2 I knew exactly what I was getting myself into. I read the script first, and I was laughing out loud….

Some of you read with me 40 years ago a portion of Aristotle's Ethics, a selection of passages that describe his idea of happiness. You may not remem….

There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily..

I think New York is working its way into my poems. It takes a while for a place to filter its way onto the page, but I've been reading more and more ….

I've been reading a bunch of stuff lately - like Joseph Campbell - that has made me realize that people in our cultural, especially in the liberal co….

Found one of my old journals. from right around the time we were heading out on tour with NFG in the UK early 2008. i started reading it and couldn't….

You can use reading as a food for the ego. It is very subtle. You can become knowledgeable; then it is dangerous and harmful. Then you are poisoning ….

Americans reading the paper, listening to the news every single day, and all you hear is things are getting worse and worse. And that has a psycholog….

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written..

What I was reading was already part of my psyche, but finally someone else was saying it's okay to walk alone..

He had been so busy getting away from the library, he hadn't paid attention to where he was going..

I'm writing with the assumption that most of you who are reading this book have concluded what I have: Preaching doesn't workpreaching, as we know it….

Writing is a way of life. I do it because it's a way of experiencing the world, and trying to come to terms with it and understand it and express it ….

The end of reading is not more books but more life..

With various readings stored his empty skull, Learn'd without sense, and venerably dull..

We didn't think the library was funny looking in it's faux- Greek splendor, nor did we find the cuisine limited or bland, or the movies at the Michig….

I love reading. I'm very much into history, novels, biographies and I have a wide range of thrillers..

The harm that comes to souls from the lack of reading holy books makes me shudder... What power spiritual reading has to lead to a change of course, ….

Oh! I am delighted with the book! I should like to spend my whole life in reading it..

In Homer and Chaucer there is more of the innocence and serenity of youth than in the more modern and moral poets. The Iliad is not Sabbath but morni….