I can be very snobby about fiction, especially contemporary fiction. I can be kind of overly demanding, I think. But this is, I think, a good time. A….

It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were not natural wonders, coming up….

Digressions incontestably are the sunshine; they are the life, the soul of reading..

I often tell my clients they should do at least 30 percent of all their reading outside their own field. This will give them perspective and knowledg….

I am re-reading Henry James as a change from history. I began with Daisy Miller, and I've just finished Washington Square. What a brilliant, painful ….

Obviously, if I'm reading in Vienna or Venezuela or Italy, there's the issue of language, and I will make choices that are more sound oriented. Or I'….

You can never read your own book with the innocent anticipation that comes with that first delicious page of a new book, because you wrote the thing.….

Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no young readers and writers, there will shortly be no….

No efforts of mine could avail to make the book easy reading..

The baby explodes into an unknown world that is only knowable through some kind of a story – of course that is how we all live, it’s the narrative of….

I think that anyone who grew up reading and being taught the Bible, as I did, can't help but have their prose shaped by it later in life. I still hav….

I entrench myself in my books equally against sorrow and the weather..

Any patch of sunlight in a wood will show you something about the sun which you could never get from reading books on astronomy. These pure and spont….

I've always loved to read. But sometimes I go for a year without reading, because I forget to..

All reading is good reading. And all reading of Jane Austen and Charles Dickens is sublime reading..

I wish the English still possessed a shred of the old sense of humour which Puritanism, and dyspepsia, and newspaper reading, and tea-drinking have n….

All I could think of was that the teachers must've found the illegal stash of candy I'd been selling out of my dorms room. Or maybe they'd realized I….

We must be forewarned that only rarely does a text easily lend itself to the reader's curiosity... the reading of a text is a transaction between the….

The fire of literacy is created by the emotional sparks between a child, a book, and the person reading..

The court decided, based on its reading of our precedents, that the effects test of Lemon is violated whenever government action creates an identific….

The fire of literacy is created by the emotional sparks between a child, a book, and the person reading. It isn’t achieved by the book alone, nor by ….