People are always telling me that they've seen people reading my books on the subway, or the beach, or whenever.
I've no interest in going on a road trip. If I want to go on holiday, I want to sit on a beach, swim, drink cocktails and read a book.
Perhaps this is why one reads fiction to begin with - to live a more interesting reality than one's daily life.
You're never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child.
Definitely read a quality daily paper regularly, and use the Internet to check out the press around the world as often as you can.
I read a lot of true-crime books, but sometimes they can put you in a bad mood.
...is impossible to specify what [consciousness] is, what it does, or why it evolved. Nothing worth reading has been written on it.
When I was in high school, I was really into string theory and superstring theory and read 'Scientific American.' It's fascinating.
I just got out of the hospital. I was in a speed reading accident. I hit a book mark and flew across the room.
When I'm not at the keyboard, I'm generally reading, practicing tai chi or middle eastern dance, or cooking.
Anybody who knows me knows I would never read a comic book.
We live in a world of crisis, of challenge, and... it's in our galleries that we can unpack the civilizations that we're seeing the current manifestations of.
I would probably have been very content as a scholar to have carried on organising exhibitions and writing books and teaching.
Theory is like a book. It's full of meaningless words, a few want to read it and where stays the movie.
I took up a sort of a hobby of just hanging around the local library. I'd pick out an author and I would read all their books.
I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.
All I do is read books, really. I worry about that sometimes. I don't seem to have a hobby or anything.
The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.
One is always enthralled, I think, when a young writer you're just beginning to read and comprehend dies.
Frederick Douglass had to teach himself how to read before standing up to defeat slavery.
Collect books, even if you don't plan on reading them right away. Nothing is more important than an unread library.
