A great work always leaves us in a state of musing..

It is my contention that the process of reading is part of the process of writing, the necessary completion without which writing can hardly be said ….

[A formula for answering controversial letters -- without even reading the letters:] Dear Sir (or Madame): You may be right..

I have written 240 books on a wide variety of topics. . . . Some of it I based on education I received in my school, but most of it was backed by oth….

Reading is a stouthearted activity, disporting courage, keenness, stick-to-it-ness..

A Bible reading laity is a nation's surest defence against error..

It's really cool to see the transformation of reading something on a page and it coming to life..

Fracking is our biggest enemy right now in the U.S. Actually, not just in the U.S., because all our water systems are interconnected. Whether you're ….

In reality, every reader is, while reading, the reader of his own self..

I don't read newspapers in the morning. I take a look at the dailies in the afternoon, but only when I've finished my work for the day. Reading about….

It's funny how much one learns from context. Throughout that entire visit to Kenya, with all its meetings, there was an experience of the place that ….

When I first got interested in comics at the time I was studying architecture and I discovered comics as a medium through listening to Art who was co….

A reading of the Declaration of Independence on the steps of a building is widely covered. The events that started the American Revolution were the m….

We have a reading, a talking, and a writing public. When shall we have a thinking?.

The reading of books, what is it but conversing with the wisest men of all ages and all countries..

You have a tendency, Hastings, to prefer the least likely. That, no doubt, is from reading too many detective stories..

If you can read and don't, you're dumb..

I find it very difficult to talk about unwritten works. It's never useful to start putting words casually around the flimsiest of notions. I finished….

I don't know where you're reading all this stuff, but it's pretty accurate, yes. It was in 1942. I was on a ship called the Accelo(ph) coming back fr….

I feel very privileged to get to read and write and not to have to do things that I don't like, and I don't want to give that up. Everything else is ….

I had no intention of becoming an academic. How could a person who was having trouble reading become an academic?.