The doors of churches, hotels, concert halls and reading rooms are alike closed against the Negro as a man, but every place is open to him as a serva….

Two opposing forces inhabit the poem: one of elevation or up-rooting, which pulls the word from the language: the other of gravity, which makes it re….

I learned to write by reading the kind of books I wished I'd written..

The library, I believe, is the last of our public institutions to which you can go without credentials. You don't even need the sticker on your wind….

Rebecca Mead's My Life in Middlemarch is a wise, humane, and delightful study of what some regard as the best novel in English. Mead has discovered a….

Because I saw my parents relaxing in armchairs and reading and liking it, I thought it was a peaceful grown-up thing to do, and I still think that..

If I could take all my parts with me when I go somewhere / and not have to say to one of them, ‘No, you stay home tonight, you won’t be welcome’/ bec….

Books do not make life easier or more simple, but harder and more interesting..

Let people who do not know what to do with themselves in this life, but fritter away their time reading magazines and watching television, hope for e….

I wanted to be an artist. I was studying art. I wanted to be a great painter. When I went into the Navy, there wasn't much to draw at sea. So I began….

It's very rare that you get a part that you actually like. People have a misconception, whether it be because actors lie or because you're reading in….

WHEN reading my present treatise, bear in mind that by "faith" we do not understand merely that which is uttered with the lips, but also that which i….

If you want a peaceful place to dwell Cold Mountain is guaranteed forever A light wind blows softly in the pines The sound is good when you are close….

I asked him what, if anything, got him down about teaching. He said he didn't think that anything about it got him exactly down, but there was one th….

For me, like, the more interesting a letter is I just get more excited and I know that this going to be great for my friends who are looking forward ….

The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you..

A well-stocked mind is safe from boredom..

Writing a book for me, I expect, is very similar to the experience of reading the book for my readers..

That's the difference between a real journal and one that's invented for a novel. A novel journal has to be manipulated so someone reading it can hav….

No one ever comitted suicide while reading a good book, but many have tried while trying to write one..

Many of us knock on the door but remain outside, because knocking and entering are entirely different actions. Knocking is necessary, consisting of r….