Man ceased to be an ape, vanquished the ape, on the day the first book was written..
The habit of reading is the only one I know in which there is no alloy. It lasts when all other pleasures fade..
While we pay lip service to the virtues of reading, the truth is that there is still in our culture something that suspects those who read too much, ….
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. It is wholesome and bracing for the mind to have its faculties kept of the stretch..
Even though you're reading something, it's as though that person who wrote it is speaking to you. It's a form of conversation, really..
Of course reading and thinking are important but, my God, food is important too. How fortunate we are to be food-consuming animals. Each meal should ….
A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest." He also said: "No book is really worth read….
There are a lot of us, some published, some not, who think the literary life is the loveliest one possible, this life of reading and writing and corr….
Have you ever found your heart's desire and then lost it? I had seen myself, a portrait of myself as a reader. My childhood: days home sick from scho….
All summer long; we'll be playing the festivals. We'll be Reading, we'll be Leeds, we'll be around..
We always talk about how everyone is unifocal. You can't possibly be interested in jazz and Beethoven. Of course you can. You can't both be reading a….
Good readers make much out of little..
Pray and learn to pray! Deepen your knowledge of the Word of the Living God by reading and meditating on the Scriptures..
People are reading news for free on the web, that's got to change..
The books one has written in the past have two surprises in store: one couldn't write them again, and wouldn't want to..
Communications technology changes possibilities for communication, but that doesn't mean it changes the inherited structure of the brain. So you may ….
When I wake up in the morning and I turn that film on, it's like reading a book and it's exciting. I don't read books, but if I read books it would b….
The early commentators who put down the pre-presidential Roosevelt as an empty-headed young lightweight, all ambition and no talent, now seem comical….
I love comics. All I've been doing is reading every day, sitting in the house. Because I've not been feeling too good, so I've been reading and readi….
And out of a desire essentially to imitate what I was reading, I began to write, like a clever monkey..
My love of poetry comes from the "actualization" I experienced in the poetry of others. And I was reading it silently and there is deep pleasure in t….