My house is filled with books, most of which I have read, some of which I intend to eventually get to. I'm always reading at least one work of fictio….

I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I sh….

Teaching literature is teaching how to read. How to notice things in a text that a speed-reading culture is trained to disregard, overcome, edit out,….

Sunday night, I reread The Catcher in the Rye until I felt tired enough to fall asleep. Only I never got tired enough. And I couldn't read, because r….

It got so bad that by the time I was graduated, the only reading I did was in order to get the grade and the only writing I did was in order to get t….

You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino's new novel, If on a winter's night a traveler..

I love reading scripts and offering notes and opinions. I'd like to be an advocate for the emerging filmmakers whom I'm working with..

People really get myopic as they get older. We're not a culture that encourages dreaming or distraction. We're not ever good at just being. I remembe….

After my divorce, I was struggling to find my own voice. Through reading, I gained my power back..

When I was 14 a chaplain at school gave me a reading list. I read everything and I went back to him with a question: how can you really believe in th….

A new book is like a friend that I have yet to meet.

But, yes, I learned everything working in theater. I learned the importance of community - I was constantly going to play readings, stand-up nights, ….

On a daily basis, my home life is very simple. I spend about 2 hours every morning reading the newspaper. As my two assistants will tell you, I don't….

no subject of study is more important than reading…all other intellectual powers depend on it..

I must suppose that reading wonderful writers may, inadvertently, teach an avid reader a great deal -- not only about life and other matters, but abo….

I don't like going out. I hate clubs. I hate being around too many people. I love my home and staying in bed and watching Dancing With the Stars or r….

Chris [ Nolan] and I have a strange way of working from the non-movie process, where after all these conversations and reading the script and more co….

I was reading Omar Khayyam, Kahlil Gibran, Rumi, L. Ron Hubbard, all sorts of philosophy. Bebop cats are like that. Curious. I wanted to know about e….

Reading for me will be a combination of books, magazines, Tumblr, and just kind of the Web in general on the iPad..

Wilhelmine Germany was hostile to the expression of same-sex love - and, of course, Mann would have known of the fate of Oscar Wilde. His early readi….

When you become a comedian a lot of stuff that made you laugh before just stops. You stop watching your old cartoons you used to watch. You stop read….