Louis Braille created the code of raised dots for reading and writing that bears his name and brings literacy, independence, and productivity to the ….

To write you had to read so I backed into reading..

Particularly when I thought of myself as a Wallace Stevens acolyte, I wrote very difficult poetry and I was really guilty of not knowing what I was t….

When I write a novel I start each morning by reading for 20 minutes..

I can't imagine how American readers will react to a novel, but if the story is appealing it doesn't matter much if you don't catch all the detail. I….

Between 2 and 5 I'm reading in to find out what's been going on while I've been asleep..

No, you've got it all wrong, John." Reading his emotions, she shook her head. "You're not half the male you could be because of what was done to you.….

Now I would say at any given moment in American life, there are probably 45 poets in airplanes vectoring across the country heading towards...I don't….

The truth is . . . that the great artists of the world are never puritans, and seldom ever ordinarily respectable. No virtuous man - that is, virtuou….

Writing reminds you that you're never alone. Writing and reading is to be optimistic..

I like the idea of reading into people's faces when they're not emoting. Some people are fascinated, some are sympathizing..

I think that for most of our history, there was a nuanced reading of the Second Amendment until the decision by the late Justice [Antoine] Scalia and….

When you're young, you keep reading new writers and you keep changing your mind about how you ought to sound..

A good book is always on tap; it may be decanted and drunk a hundred times, and it is still there for further imbibement..

As an actor, you're always reading scripts looking for something good..

Whether you've done anything wrong or not people will write whatever they want, so it's just a matter of not reading it, not buying into it, and hope….

First publication is a pure, carnal leap into that dark which one dreams is life..

Books worth reading are worth re-reading..

A lot of people believe in reading reviews. If I get too focused on some detail of what they've said about me, I'm going to end up shooting myself in….

He objected, though, to indiscriminate reading. 'One must have some question,' he wrote, 'addressed to the book one is going to read..

Contrary to what some folks would have us believe, it is not tragic, even if undesirable, for a person to leave a liberal arts education not having r….