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….

If you don’t like to read, you haven’t found the right book..

You have to resign yourself to the fact that you waste a lot of trees before you write anything you really like, and that's just the way it is. It's ….

The book exists for us perchance which will explain our miracles and and reveal new ones. The at present unutterable things we may find somewhere utt….

Reading is important. If you know how to read then the whole world opens up to you.

He [Death] pulled a pure-black iPad from thin air. Death tapped the screen a few times and all Frank could think was: Please don't let there be an ap….

That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing..

In America, and no doubt elsewhere, we have such a tendency toward the segregation of cultural products. This is a black book, this is a gay book, th….

Certainly I had from an early age a sense of the power and beauty of religious texts - the awesome magnitude of the Bible stories I was reading as a ….

For heaven's sake, don't write writing. Write reading!.

Drs. Margolis and Fisher have done a great service to education, computer science, and the culture at large. Unlocking the Clubhouse should be requir….

Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home..

I've been reading reviews of my stories for twenty-five years, and can't remember a single useful point in any of them, or the slightest good advice.….

Easy reading requires hard writing..

... But he recommended the books which charmed her leisure hours, he encouraged her taste, and corrected her judgment; he made reading useful by talk….

Reading isn't an occupation we encourage among police officers. We try to keep the paperwork down to a minimum..

Pity is for this life, pity is the worm inside the meat, pity is the meat, pity is the shaking pencil, pity is the shaking voice-- not enough money, ….

Books in a large university library system: 2,000,000. Books in an average large city library: 10,000. Average number of books in a chain bookstore: ….

A fondness for reading, which, properly directed, must be an education in itself..

Reading a book by someone you respect allows some of their brilliance to rub off on you..

It is not our free will but 'it is the Lord who sets the captive free' (Ps. 145:7). It is not our own virtue but 'it is the Lord who lifts up those w….