People who love reading get an instantly warm feeling in their bellies when they hear others describe getting comfortable with a good book.
As for what's the most challenging aspect of teaching, it's convincing younger writers of the importance of reading widely and passionately.
Let's just say I was in Special Forces and leave it at that. People can read into that what they like.
There is a strange idea abroad that in every subject the ancient book should be read only by the professionals, and the amateur should content himself with modern books.
Even if it is a vice to read science fiction, those who cannot understand the very temptation to that vice will not be likely to tell us anything of value about it.
I remember vividly what it's like to read as a 10-year-old - that passionate inhabiting of a book.
I have an editor in my head, that's why I can't read Harry Potter, because Rowling is such a lousy writer.
I always thought the joy of reading a book is not knowing what happens next. (Leonard Shelby, Memento)
When I was little, my grandma used to get romance novels, and she would get hundreds of these, and she'd read a dozen a month.
When I die, it's going to read, 'Game Show Fixture Passes Away.' Nothing about the theater, or Tony Awards, or Emmys. But it doesn't bother me.
I think everyone is introduced to the Peter Pan story when they're very young. Everyone has read the book and watched the Disney film and all that.
Well, obviously, as soon as I'd finished the script I read a lot of books on Winston Churchill, and started to gain weight and really prepare emotionally, mentally and physically for the role.
I've read hundreds of cookbooks. Most of those cookbooks don't even tell you how to get a steak ready, how to bake biscuits or an apple pie.
One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.
Being in the public eye, I have certainly gone through the tabloid situation where they come out with stories that are not true. I don't read or pay attention to it.
Foreign-language books are sometimes more beautiful when you can't tell what's being said. It's like you ruin it by reading.
Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but, most important, it finds homes for us everywhere.
Don't forget that the only two things people read in a story are the first and last sentences. Give them blood in the eye on the first one.
When I read the Upanishads, which are part of Vedanta, I found a profundity of worldview that made my Christianity seem like third grade.
To live, pray. To learn, read. To love, give. To listen, pay attention. But to be wise, apply all that you have acquired
Who are we, who is each one of us, if not a combinatoria of experiences, information, books we have read, things imagined?
