If I'm reading a book and it seems truly interesting, I tend to start reading back to front in order not to be too deeply under the sway of progress..

Well, I'm half Australian, half English and I live in London. That is the only reason I came upon this story. My Australian mother, Meredith Hooper, ….

Everything about singing, I learned from busking. Everything I learned about songwriting, I learned from busking. Busking, you learn people, you lear….

I suspected learning a language would be both useful and enjoyable (I love memorising lists of things), and would get rid of the embarrassment of bei….

I like reading history, and actually most authors enjoy the research part because it is, after all, easier than writing..

It is usual to speak in a playfully apologetic tone about one's adult enjoyment of what are called 'children's books.' I think the convention a silly….

I knew that they were going to be reading actors for Manute, and I wanted to give it a shot. I wanted a shot to do it, and they embraced that and sai….

The Patriot Act allows Federal agents to look at public and university library patron circulation records, books checked out, magazines consulted, al….

Many readers judge of the power of a book by the shock it gives their feelings - as some savage tribes determine the power of muskets by their recoil….

I wondered what it does to each of us to spend the majority of our waking hours doings things we'd rather not do, wishing we were outside or simply e….

Suppose there were an experience machine that would give you any experience you desired. Superduper neuropsychologists could stimulate your brain so ….

My wife and I just started listening to the late Beethoven Quartets together, an activity I recommend for all married couples, but that doesn't reall….

It's a secret language, known to all different people, in different ways, that enables them to read a subliminal message without realising they're re….

I am a reader, a flashlight-under-the-covers, carries-a-book-everywhere-I-go​, don't-look-at-my-Amazon-bill. I choose purses based on whether I can c….

Failing to graduate a populace that values reading has long-term consequences for everyone..

You see? Characters in books do not read books. Oh, they snap them shut when somebody enters a room, or fling them aside in disgust at what they fanc….

I started reading the big histories and the small histories, the memoirs and so forth. At some point, I found the diary of William E. Dodd..

You are what you read..

I picked up reading late because I grew up dyslexic. When I went to college, a friend who was a big reader got me started on a number of writers, inc….

A lot of people who want to see the short story have a renaissance of readership - they tend to think of short stories, and sometimes poems too, as b….

Reading is a form of prayer, a guided meditation that briefly makes us believe we're someone else, disrupting the delusion that we're permanent and a….