If you’re in your life, chance. Viewed from the outside, like a book you’re reading, it’s fate all the way..

The gift of creative reading, like all natural gifts, must be nourished or it will atrophy. And you nourish it, in much the same way you nourish the ….

Books can only reveal us to ourselves, and as often as they do us this service we lay them aside..

I'm reading George Saunders's story collection, "Tenth of December." He was my mentor at the University of Syracuse. The stories are mind-blowing lik….

I own that I am disposed to say grace upon twenty other occasions in the course of the day besides my dinner. I want a form for setting out upon a pl….

I believe that reading and writing are the most nourishing forms of meditation anyone has so far found. By reading the writings of the most interesti….

She felt as if she bled her regret and loneliness from her very pores, and yet she could not shape those feelings into any sentiment she could imagin….

A writer is someone who has taught his mind to misbehave..

It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it..

Elements of the Christian fundamentalist right are one of the strongest components of "support for Israel" - support in an odd sense, because they pr….

Research shows us that children who are read to from a very early age are more likely to begin reading themselves at an early age. They're more likel….

Why should we leave it to Harper & Brothers and Redding & Co. to select our reading?.

If the critics are right that I've made all my decisions based on polls, then I must not be very good at reading them..

A novelist writes a novel, and people read it. But reading is a solitary act. While it may elicit a varied and personal response, the communal nature….

As long as you notice, and have to count the steps, you are not yet dancing but only learning to dance. A good shoe is a shoe you don't notice. Good ….

How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book..

What would we not give for some great poem to read now, which would be in harmony with the scenery,--for if men read aright, methinks they would neve….

There are strong people who aren't able to climb. It's about reading the rock, knowing how to position your body and having the tenacity to not let g….

If one has to choose between reading the new books and reading the old, one must choose the old: not because they are necessarily better but because ….

You can't develop character by reading books. You develop it from conflict..

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all..