Reading was like eating alone, with that same element of bingeing..

The effect of reading literary non-fiction that matters most to me is when the coin drops, and this happens in the company of the great, mercuric, en….

You have a tendency, Hastings, to prefer the least likely. That, no doubt, is from reading too many detective stories..

What made me want to be on it was reading a really good script, and being compelled by and attracted to the characters. I really loved Maura Isles, w….

I started studying in '85 and got knowledge of self and started spitting. What was going on was taking the understanding of what I was reading and ap….

Be as careful of the books you read, as of the company you keep, for your habits and character will be as much influenced by the former as the latter..

I really wished he hadn't made me hate to read the Bible. Having it shoved down my throat all my life had made me bitter toward reading it. I believe….

I keep reading about people who want to be famous - it's not that they want to be great songwriters or great actors, they want to be celebrities. Tha….

I always get ‘What’s wrong?’ or ‘Lighten up.’ Half the time, when guys tell me to smile, I’m not even frowning, I’m thinking! Then I’m like, Oh! Some….

I mean I like most of the films that I've seen that I've been in. Those are the kind of films that I like to see. Am I getting better at making choic….

I have to say, the other day I was reading some negative comments, and I was thinking they were really funny. So I guess they don't anymore..

I'm really not responsible for what mental operation people have when they're reading my books other than the ones which are created by literary effe….

The people who encouraged me weren't necessarily writers or readers themselves. They were people who were just pleased to see me devote my life to re….

If you think that what you're doing is not all that important in the larger scheme of things and that you're just an insignificant creature in the wh….

My dad read The Hobbit to me originally when I was young. So, it was the first imaginary landscape I ever had in my head from the written word. It ga….

All the time I was plowing through books on dyslexia, I found myself asking: what if, what if? What if you were a kid the 1950s with this condition, ….

thanks to my friends for their care in my breeding, Who taught me betimes to love working and reading..

If you can read and don't, you're dumb..

A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it..

My mother had been an English teacher in India before she came to the U.K., and she taught me to read early on - not only in English, but in Hindi, t….

I find it very difficult to talk about unwritten works. It's never useful to start putting words casually around the flimsiest of notions. I finished….