Most of humanity gets by without reading novels or poetry, and no one would deny the richness of their thoughts..

Stories have inspired me all my life. I like reading about what other people have done and it inspires me to share my own stories, and encourage peop….

I'm reading a book about Romaine Brooks, a wonderful painter from early in the last century..

There's no such thing as a kid who hates reading. There are kids who love reading, and kids who are reading the wrong books..

My first two books, Letters to a Young Brother and Letters to a Young Sister, were... distributed pretty widely. Judges in juvenile justice facilitie….

Outstanding high school writers reported extensive summer reading.

The decision to write in prose instead of poetry is made more by the readers than by writers. Almost no one is interested in reading narrative in ver….

He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book..

If upon this earth we ever have a glimpse of heaven,it is when we pass a home in winter, at night,and through the windows, the curtains drawn aside,w….

Writing [for the novelist] is not an activity, but a condition. That is why one simply can't resume the work when one has a job and a free half-day. ….

Cookbooks hit you where you live. You want comfort; you want security; you want food; you want to not be hungry and not only do you want those basic ….

A newspaper that you're not reading can be used for anything; and the same people didn't think it was immoral to wrap their garbage in newspaper..

She could give herself up to the written word as naturally as a good dancer to music or a fine swimmer to water. The only difficulty was that after f….

For many years I was trying to find answers only through books but then I realized that basically, life is about experience and the thing that you ha….

One performs a very different act when reading a movie and when reading a novel. Your attention behaves differently..

Reading is a gymnasium for the imagination where people can work out, get ready for the shocks of existence. [...] For me, the intimate teachers have….

I'm never the kind of person who's sitting at home reading the charts and basing how I feel about myself or even my career on stats. I've always base….

The Bible is an inexhaustible fountain of all truths. The existence of the Bible is the greatest blessing which humanity ever experienced. Few trembl….

In anything fit to be called by the name of reading, the process itself should be absorbing and voluptuous; we should gloat over a book, be rapt clea….

Ben remembered reading about curators in "Wonderstruck", and thought about what id meant to curate your own life, as his dad had done here. What woul….

Things like reading a book or learning a language, or taking a walk - they're not stimulating. Your mind has to sort of learn how to deal with that k….