In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calam….

I just like doing standup, that's all I'm interested in or good at..

People can relate to reading a book for the first time and the world starts to create, even without you prepping for it..

Africa is to be pitied, worshipped or dominated.

To keep an active mind, I find that reading novels is really good..

History is absolutely my thing..

I think that the online world has actually brought books back. People are reading because they're reading the damn screen. That's more reading than p….

I wish the English still possessed a shred of the old sense of humour which Puritanism, and dyspepsia, and newspaper reading, and tea-drinking have n….

Before you attempt to set things right, make sure you see things right..

When you are in love- everything is romantic.

The worst thing to do is to die while reading LIFE magazine..

I like to know what the gestation of the idea is, I like to know the foundation, and I do a lot of reading and research..

Keep it weird. They'll get it later..

I think her Grandmother Hall gave her a great sense of family love, and reassurance. Her grandmother did love her, like her father, unconditionally. ….

Reading is the unbelievably healthy way my attention deficit disorder medicates itself. Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it's a way….

You can't possibly be right for everything..

There is a pleasure unknown to the landsman in reading at sea..

There is nothing more distressing or tiresome than a writer standing in front of an audience and reading his work..

I've just surfaced from spending several days in a state of rapture: I was reading a book... I felt alive and engaged and positively brilliant, burst….

Learn to read slow; all other graces will follow in their proper places..

You don't make a movie, the movie makes you..