Writers aren't born, they're made - from practice, reading, and a lot of caffeine..

When I was on the set, I was not talking on the phone or reading anything else. I was just reading things, listening to music and watching things tha….

People don't care to read what they already think or what any people think - they know all that well enough. They want to know what they ought to thi….

It's better not to know authors personally, because the real person never corresponds to the image you form of him from reading his books..

I don't think anything's more rewarding than hearing that you've helped someone gain a love of reading..

Television viewing has become for me a completely different experience, because I don't watch shows on a weekly basis. I wait until the DVD or I TiVo….

Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting..

Neither is a dictionary a bad book to read. There is no can't in it, no excess of explanation, and it is full of suggestion, the raw material of poss….

The appeal of reading, she thought, lay in its indifference: there was something undeferring about literature. Books did not care who was reading the….

It is with a good book as it is with good company..

When I was in the first grade I was afraid of the teacher and had a miserable time in the reading circle, a difficulty that was overcome by the lovin….

Some women have a weakness for shoes... I can go barefoot if necessary. I have a weakness for books..

We learn... 10% of what we read 20% of what we hear 30% of what we see 50% of what we both hear and see 70% of what is discussed 80% of what we….

Our high respect for a well-read man is praise enough for literature. - Ralph Waldo Emerson.

I write early in the morning, usually after reading portions of at least half a dozen newspapers on the web..

I think that when people read fiction, they're really reading for wisdom. I am. That's what most of us really love. If we read a novel that rocks our….

A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe..

I've been reading the books. It's the origination, it's the primary source. You should always go back to the books..

By reading Huckleberry Finn I felt I was able to justify my act of going into the mountain forest at night and sleeping among the trees with a sense ….

Important thing is not the me that's lying here, but the me that's sitting on the edge of the bed looking back at me, and the me that's downstairs co….

When I graduated from high school I couldn't go to college, so I went to the library 3 days a week for 10 years..