The more you read, the more you calm down..

When I was growing up I loved reading historical fiction, but too often it was about males; or, if it was about females, they were girls who were goi….

So many times, I will have people tell me what I did when I was younger. There's so much being written [about] the early Beatles period, and even pre….

Reading's the only thing that allows you to use your imagination..

I know the action in the street is excitin' But Jesus, between all the bleedin’ ‘n fightin’ I’ve been readin’ ‘n writin’..

The careful reader of the New Testament will find three Christs described: - One who wished to preserve Judaism - one who wished to reform it, and on….

I probably spend more time writing than reading science fiction. I find that science-fiction literature is so reactive to all the literature that's g….

Except a living man, there is nothing more wonderful than a book..

Great lecturers seldom hesitate to use dramatic tricks to enshrine their precepts in the minds of their audiences, and at Yale perhaps Chauncey B. Ti….

Reading is not an end to itself, but a means to an end..

A lot of my reading over the next few months will be the works of Hans Christian Andersen - I have been appointed an ambassador for the bicentenary c….

One must be an inventor to read well..

... we must read, not only for what we read but for what it makes us think..

Reading the play at home, however fulfilling, can never be the vivacious experience that Shakespeare intended..

I'm 52 years old, which means I'm of an age where my reading habits are more or less set. I read plenty of stuff on line but I rely on pretty traditi….

Shakespeare fascinated me. He hardly ever left the country. His imagination was worldwide though reading..

The only question I'd be interested in is what books other celebrities have read recently, which is part of my campaign to promote reading..

Reading is not simply an intellectual pursuit but an emotional and spiritual one. It lights the candle in the hurricane lamp of self; that's why it s….

I should as soon think of swimming across Charles River, when I wish to go to Boston, as of reading all my books in originals, when I have them rende….

Reading is professionally important for me to keep tuned in to what's being written in my genre, let's not lie. But that's not the reason I read. I r….

I get letters from readers who say that they have always hated reading, but somebody suggested one of my books, they actually finished the book and e….