Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations..

I read my books at night, like that, under the quilt with the overheated reading lamp. Reading all those good lines while suffocating. It was magic..

es, I spend a lot of time in Reading because we live in Oxfordshire and so we're always just in and out of each other's houses. It's very much the fa….

It's different in Scotland. People who come to readings are more interested in literature as such, but the readership in general is really quite dive….

Reading is a stout-hearted activity, disporting courage, keenness, stick-to-it-ness. It is also, in my experience, one of the most thrilling and endu….

As a recluse I couldn't bear traffic. It had nothing to do with jealousy, I simply disliked people, crowds, anywhere, except at my readings. People d….

If a person is constantly evolving, constantly reading new material and being exposed to new material and growing in life, then you're becoming, hope….

Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written..

If I had to give up reading or give up listening to music, I suspect I'd stick with the music..

Some hard and dry book in a dead language, which you have found it impossible to read at home, but for which you still have a lingering regard, is th….

I see ghosts everywhere, and that is partially a function of my being incredibly near-sighted and reading way too late into the night..

Still reading but learning a lot about true education and the process of guiding our children in their educational pursuits..

When I'm writing, I really want to satisfy myself. I've got a story that I am working on and struggling with, and I want to tell it the most effectiv….

I can't imagine a home without an overflow of books. The point of books is to have way too many but to always feel you never have enough, or the righ….

He who has a garden and a library wants for nothing..

Reading is not an operation performed on something inert but a relationship entered into with another vital being..

Better to remain silent and thought a fool, than to speak out and confirm that you didn't do the assigned readings before the strategic planning retr….

The art of reading and studying consists in remembering the essentials and forgetting what is not essential..

I'm very pessimistic about adaptations from one medium to another. I've got a very kind of primitive, Puritan view of it. I tend to think that if som….

There is no proper time and place for reading. When the mood for reading comes, one can read anywhere.

I want to remind people of the great and profound joy that can be found in stories, and that stories can connect us to each other, and that reading t….