I had the advantage of reading the book, and when the script was first submitted to me, it was just another gangster story - the east side taking ove….

No characters in 'Stay Close,' including the leads, are black and white. I want them to be grey. I think that makes for a much more interesting readi….

But, for the role of Sarah Linden, we saw everybody. Everybody wanted this role. Every female actor in town really wanted to play a real woman and be….

Don't neglect your spiritual reading. - Reading has made many saints..

Many good sayings are to be found in holy books, but merely reading them will not make one religious..

I do think poetry needs to invite the reader, especially when there are so many other distractions while reading..

It is almost impossible to open a newspaper without reading something about the London housing market. House prices are rising at such a rate that th….

Id rather be with Dracula than the Wolfman..

The delights of reading impart the vivacity of youth even to old age..

The more you read, the more you calm down..

One always has a better book in one's mind than one can manage to get onto paper..

When I was growing up I loved reading historical fiction, but too often it was about males; or, if it was about females, they were girls who were goi….

A high-ranking Syrian official in DC laughed when he heard I was reading Michel Aflaq and writing this book. He said, "Let me tell you something. The….

Either you understand or you don't, and that is that..

I don't get to watch a lot of TV. I just do all my news and reading and "Meet the Press," all that fun, exciting stuff..

Keep reading. It's one of the most marvelous adventures that anyone can have..

Reading was very important to me as a kid. It was very inspirational to me. I went to a school where that wasn't encouraged so much, but my parents e….

So many times, I will have people tell me what I did when I was younger. There's so much being written [about] the early Beatles period, and even pre….

I'm definitely influenced by lots of different things - from music, from reading, from I don't know... I have a lot of different sources of inspirati….

For such a long time, when you're a writer, you really are just writing for yourself, and maybe a few friends. So it's really amazing when your book ….

The church itself has got to go outside of its own borders and carry the gospel to ev'ry creature, or it is no church of Christ; and any mutual impro….