But that which is useful is the better..

I love the apparent quiet of reading a book. You sit there; you're not really moving. It looks very solitary. It looks very boring, but actually it's….

Let's take the work seriously, and not ourselves seriously..

It suddenly dawned on me one day, when I was reading in the paper about a woman wrestler, that being a curmudgeon was the last thing in the world tha….

Don't do anything that you're already not great at doing..

I won't ever stop until you're either the biggest thing around, or you're dead..

Stop fearing being attacked..

Books and doors are the same thing. You open them, and you go through into another world..

How can we live without the unknown before us?.

Do we really need school? I don't mean education, just forced schooling: six classes a day, five days a week, nine months a year, for twelve years. I….

There's no other like Leo..

Authors, she soon decided, were probably best met within the pages of their novels, and were as much creatures of the reader's imagination as the cha….

But in reading Shakespeare and in reading about Edward de Vere, it's quite apparent that when you read these works that whoever penned this body of w….

If it was a biopic about Glenn Greenwald, I would have immersed myself more fully in his personal life and gotten to know him as much as I could, but….

If I do a poetry reading I want people to walk out and say they feel better for having been there - not because you've done a comedy performance but ….

I'm on the road to riches, it's just a lil traffic..

When you're reading the Word of God, you need to let it soak in and let God speak to your heart and let the Holy Spirit work..

When you're a young poet, reading is a search for your lost family..

When I was growing up, there was a man who gave me lessons and things. I'm very dyslexic so he used to give me extra reading and writing. And he alwa….

It's over. Absolutely, completely, eternally over.

A library should be like a pair of open arms..