I have an office in my house, with a comfy red print reading chair and a soft cream-colored desk. After I walk Winston the Wonder dog and have my bre….
The bulk of all patents are crap. Spending time reading them is stupid. It's up to the patent owner to do so, and to enforce them..
I always try to treat the book itself as the artwork. I don't want you to stop while you're reading one of my books and say, 'Oh! What a gorgeous ill….
People are interested in crime fiction when they're quite distanced from crime. People in Darfur are not reading murder mysteries..
I think as soon as I figured out - and this must have been incredibly young - that comic books were made by humans, rather than being natural phenome….
I do try not to spend much time reading in the suspense genre..
There was so much that you could do, instead of looking for things that you couldn't do..
A first book has some of the sweetness of a first love..
There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them..
I can't imagine a home without an overflow of books. The point of books is to have way too many but to always feel you never have enough, or the righ….
One cannot learn how to be creative by reading Marx. Either one is creative or one is not..
In America, and no doubt elsewhere, we have such a tendency toward the segregation of cultural products. This is a black book, this is a gay book, th….
Your teacher cannot bridge the gap between what you know and what you want to know. For his words to ‘educate' you, you must welcome them, think abou….
The BBC's aim, along with schools, libraries and literacy groups, to involve more people in reading groups is an exciting idea and one that I hope wi….
History is a continuum, it's not these separate moments. That's how we look at it. In the 1700s in Virginia before there were police officers - there….
Your interests change. I used to feel that if I spent evenings reading, or watching a film, or just doing nothing up here at the house, I would proba….
For someone who loves literature, and all books on principle, being asked to name three titles over a half century of serious reading is akin to aski….
Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual..
There are no taboos. Every topic is open, however shocking. It is the way that the topics are handled that's important, and that applies whether it i….
Anatole France frankly advised, "When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it." Yes, indeed, but do more. Copy many….
Your word is your bond, you do what you say you're going to do..