Bea says that the art of reading is slowly dying, that it's an intimate ritual, that a book is a mirror that offers us only what we already carry ins….

A rock band used to be four guys and a drummer. Now it's five guys sitting around reading manuals!.

It is well known that reading quickens the growth of a heart like nothing else..

I do voicework all the time..

One great aim of revision is to cut out. In the exuberance of composition it is natural to throw in - as one does in speaking - a number of small wor….

Game management is accomplished by staying constantly alert and then reading and reacting to potential problem situations before they materialize. It….

I'm reading more than ever. I used to find it tedious, but now it's like my little friend - it takes my mind off things..

Reading is a dissuasion from immorality. Reading stands in the place of company..

The Lampoon was definitely quite formative. You know there's a crazy like kind of network of comedy writers from The Lampoon that are, that kind of y….

Then why don't you go and ---- yourself..

Outward change comes after we change from within.

As long as I'm dealing in honesty, I may as well admit that I have been more influenced (as a person) by my childhood readings of Tolkien and Lewis t….

If you want to take down your opponent, you do it tactically, point by point..

Well, I would hardly say I do write as yet. But I write because I like words. I suppose if I liked stone I might carve. I like words. I like reading.….

It's such a wonderful feeling to watch a child discover that reading is a marvelous adventure rather than a chore. I know that many writers for child….

We cannot enslave others without enslaving a part of ourselves..

You can’t live for God until you learn how to live because of God..

If this enormous pressure didn't exist, I wouldn't have been elected. It would have been one of the usual candidates..

I've never really liked L.A., because of its sprawl..

I was working on a satirical novel about a charismatic preacher who takes over a small Indiana town. Then I remembered Jim Jones was from Indiana and….

There's a lotta things about me you don't know anything about, Dottie. Things you wouldn't understand. Things you couldn't understand. Things you sho….