I have now a library of nearly nine hundred volumes, over seven hundred of which I wrote myself..

It is time to return to close reading, to a serious and painstaking examination of an author's methods, of his style. Do not be deterred by headaches….

I had plenty of pimples as a kid. One day I fell asleep in the library. When I woke up, a blind man was reading my face..

When, after having read a work, loftier thoughts arise in your mind and noble and heartfelt feelings animate you, do not look for any other rule to j….

Women of child-bearing age steadily run out of eggs by the continuous process of cell death. While reading a copy of the Guardian carefully from cove….

I read for three things; first, to know what the world has done the last twenty-four hours, and is about to do today; second, for the knowledge that ….

This nice and subtle happiness of reading, this joy not chilled by age, this polite and unpunished vice, this selfish, serene life-long intoxication..

Essential characteristic of the really great novelist: a Christ-like, all-embracing compassion..

All my good reading, you might say, was done in the toilet..

I enjoy reading blogs, but am not interested in having my spurious thoughts out there..

My entire education in music was in reading interviews with bands like Stereolab and finding out about Brazilian music or a Romanian composer. You ex….

A truly good book is something as natural, and as unexpectedly and unaccountably fair and perfect, as a wild-flower discovered on the prairies of the….

There is no right or wrong reading of Naked Lunch, though some readings are more common, and thus Burroughs commercial is not the issue..

The man who has not the habit of reading is imprisoned in his immediate world..

Actions are the first tragedy in life, words are the second. Words are perhaps the worst. Words are merciless. . ..

I believe in the absolute and unlimited liberty of reading. I believe in wandering through the stacks and picking out the first thing that strikes me….

The truth of the matter is that about 99 percent of teaching is making the students feel interestedin the material. Then the other 1 percent has to d….

Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them..

Journalism taught me how to write a sentence that would make someone want to read the next one. You are trained to get rid of anything nonessential. ….

For people who are readers, reading is important to them..

I was taught a lot of Bible at home and had a voracious appetite for reading the Bible..