When I was nine I spent a lot of my time reading books about the history of comedy, or listening to the Goons or Hancock, humour from previous genera….

If you have feelings about reading, you feel the rhythm of prose or of a poem like music. It awakens something in your soul and then of course you st….

As centuries of dictators have known, an illiterate crowd is the easiest to rule; since the craft of reading cannot be untaught once it has been acqu….

Libraries, whether my own or shared with a greater reading public, have always seemed to me pleasantly mad places, and for as long as I can remember ….

When fear enters the heart of a man at hearing the names of candidates and the reading of laws that are proposed, then is the State safe, but when th….

I have a bad tendency to get rapidly bored with my own material, so rewriting is hard for me. I mean, I already know the story and would rather read ….

I try really hard to cultivate the pure love of reading, to make time for it, because it would be really sad to still be a writer without remembering….

Books take their place according to their specific gravity as surely as potatoes in a tub..

The flood of print has turned reading into a process of gulping rather than savoring..

What can I say? Librarians rule..

A love of reading is an acquired taste, not an instinctive preference. The habit of reading is formed in childhood; and a child's taste in reading is….

It is essential that anyone reading this book know at the outset that the author is apolitical. I was convinced in 1927 that humanity's most fundamen….

I fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom..

The great enemy of the salvation of man, in my opinion, never invented a more effective means of limiting Christianity from the world than by persuad….

The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries..

He fed his spirit with the bread of books.

In art and life we're always reading bodies and behaviors (and skies and skylines or whatever), constructing brief and shifting coherences, and I gue….

If we commit ourselves to reading thus increasing our knowledge, only God limits how far we can go in this world..

Don't read what everyone else is reading. Check them out later, cautiously..

If there was no Bible, it would be no matter whether you could read or not. Reading other books would do you no good..

In reading we must become creators..