I wish thee as much pleasure in the reading, as I had in the writing.
I want to know why I read as a child with such a frantic appetite, why I sucked the words off the page with such an edge of desperation.
I read a lot on the subject and had many conversations, and I have come to the conclusion that the Catholic Church is a force for evil.
But there is in everything a reasonable division of labour. I have written the book, and nothing on earth would induce me to read it.
If you have not done things worthy of being written about, at least write things worthy of being read.
I just read that 81 percent of Americans are ready to vote for a woman. So it sounds like America is ready.
There isn't a book that has changed me, but I have favourites such as 'Pride and Prejudice' which I often re-read.
To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves.
Five years from today, you will be the same person that you are today, except for the books you read and the people you meet.
Personally I don't like it when writers become excessively proscriptive about the way that people read their books.
You cannot read any image of the World Trade Center without thinking of 9/11.
Working on a green screen set, yeah, it's almost like reading from a novel, taking those black words and creating a world around you.
I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there.
Newspapers are the Bibles of worldlings. How diligently they read them! Here they find their law and profits, their judges and chronicles, their epistles and revelations.
taught that literacy is the path from slavery to freedom. There are many kinds of slavery and many kinds of freedom, but reading is still the path.
Read and write with a sensitive ear. The craft of writing is very important. Practice the craft.
America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black.
It's one thing to buy a copy of 'Atlas Shrugged.' You actually have to read it to get anything out of it.
You know, for years I used to read about myself. They'd say, 'He has a temper' or 'He's a bully' or something like that, and it always bothered me.
I have written about Chile extensively, and therefore I have read many books on the subject, mostly for research.
Smell is a very animal thing, almost reptilian, where the more cerebral things like reading less so.
