I believe that writing is derivative. I think good writing comes from good reading..

I think they assign things to students which are way over their heads, which destroy your love of reading, rather than leading you to it. I don't und….

I really like older writers, perhaps because they take me out of my element. I don't have a great deal of interest in reading a fictionalized present….

Whenever I hear the epistles of Paul read out loud in the liturgy, I am filled with joy... If I'm regarded as a learned man, it's not because I'm bra….

If I had the opportunity to say a fine word to all the young people of America, it would be this: Don't think too much about yourselves. Try to culti….

There's no pressure in baseball. Pressure is when the doctor is getting ready to cut you, take your heart out, and put it on a table..

For character, to prepare for the inevitable I recommend selections from [Ralph Waldo] Emerson. His writings have done for me far more than all other….

I want to urge you very strongly to travel as much as you can, and to evolve yourself as an internationalist. It's as important a part of your educat….

Wayne: You wanna know why I really came to find you? Waxilliam: Why? Wayne: I thought of you happy in a comfy bed, resting and relaxing, spending the….

Dr. Phil was very helpful and caring. I believe he helped all of us there and watching how to better relate, understand, and communicate with our fam….

Reading is more important than writing..

For anyone who is: just keep writing. Keep reading. If you are meant to be a writer, a storyteller, it'll work itself out. You just keep feeding it y….

I started reading when I was about three, a little over three..

We are all writers and readers as well as communicators with the need at times to please and satisfy ourselves with the clear and almost perfect thou….

One way of reading my life is that I have been in constant search for a father..

I'm not in the business of reading tea leaves. I don't have a crystal ball..

In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read by nobody..

I do remember reading the script of 'The Nightmare Fair' and looking forward to doing it..

A friend of mine had his own theatre company, and he jumped me in like I was in a gang. And once I came in, it was just that simple. For the first ti….

You can learn more by going to the opera than you ever can by reading Emerson. Like that there are two sexes..

The Kindle is the most successful electronic book-reading tablet so far, but that's not saying much; Silicon Valley is littered with the corpses of e….