I'm steeped in the news because I enjoy the news - I like reading papers, I like reading the blogs, I love talking to newsmakers and pundits, for tha….

When the Irish novelist John McGahern was a child, his sisters unlaced and removed one of his shoes while he was reading. He did not stir. They place….

When I put my faith in Jesus Christ as my savior, and I asked him to forgive and to come into my life, and He does - from that moment forward I have ….

Travel Far, Pay No Fare... a book can take you anywhere..

If the weather's nice, I like to be outside exercising, but when it's colder, I'm a real homebody and I catch up on my reading..

Once I get on something, once I have something that I'm working on, then I become very obsessive. In a good way. I mean,... is there a positive way t….

Do not suppose, however, that I intend to urge a diet of classics on anybody. I have seen such diets at work. I have known people who have actually r….

I think reading Shakespeare's plays when I was young was extremely important. He had the ability to make utter strangers come alive..

The Bible takes much of its color from whoever is reading it, and it provides a text to support almost every shade of opinion, however preposterous..

The great book for you is the book that has the most to say to you at the moment when you are reading. I do not mean the book that is most instructiv….

If it's all instruction, you get annoyed with it and bored, and you stop reading. If it's all entertainment, you read it quite quickly, your heart go….

In a world where meaning is often absent or imposed, reading offers a dialogue with ourselves, with society, with history, and with the dead..

I've always been a fan of reading art catalogues from exhibitions, and plays, and I've worked with a surrealist German playwright, Heiner Müller..

Reading things that are relevant to the facts of your life is of limited value. The facts are, after all, only the facts, and the yearning passionate….

When a book raises your spirit, and inspires you with noble and manly thoughts, seek for no other test of its excellence. It is good, and made by a g….

I began reading everyhing in the family library. Kidnapped, Treasure Island, Robinson Crusoe. And of course, if you're running out of books to read y….

Watching a scene from a film in slow motion is possible, but there’s an unreal air to it; reading a passage from a book slowly does nothing to rob th….

If the history of England be ever written by one who has the knowledge and the courage,-and both qualities are equally requisite for the undertaking,….

reading is not a passive act. It's a creative act. It's a relationship between the writer and a person the writer will probably never meet. I think i….

I love the apparent quiet of reading a book. You sit there; you're not really moving. It looks very solitary. It looks very boring, but actually it's….

Books and doors are the same thing. You open them, and you go through into another world..