Reading inspirational and motivational quotes daily is like taking my vitamins.
I don’t want anyone reading my writing to think about style. I just want them to be in the story.
I’m kind of old-school and love nothing more than sitting, opening a book, and reading it. But I also love listening to audio books.
I was reading The Bible a lot through my 20s, mostly the Old Testament, just because I was knocked out by the language and the stories. I felt that the God being talked about there, who was this insane, vindictive patriarch – it was kind of thrilling, and titillated something in me at the time.
I confess, I do have to remind myself almost daily that there are people on this earth capable of reading, writing, eating and dressing themselves who believe their lives are ruled from billions of miles away, by the stars – and, of course, the planets.
Unpleasant reading on the subject of anger tells us that there’s not really anything wrong with it. In limited amounts. It can even be a good thing. A pressure valve.
From reading too much, and sleeping too little, his brain dried up on him and he lost his judgment.
I cannot live without reading.
You become a reader by reading the literature, not by reading the handbooks about it.
Political freedom is a political reading of the Bible.
Most books today seemed to have been written overnight from books read the day before.
You can recognize in your own reading habits what writers are doing that works and what doesn’t. I’m becoming much more aware of that after reading a decade of student stories.
The temptation is not here, where you are reading about it or praying about it. It is down in your shop, among bales and boxes, ten-penny nails, and sand-paper.
Sometimes if I can’t sleep and I am up in the night, I will start researching things – it could be an image I’ve seen, or a book I am reading.
I’m a reading addict. I can’t live without it, like someone who is addicted to drugs.
For me, a page of good prose is where one hears the rain and the noise of battle. It has the power to give grief or universality that lends it a youthful beauty.
The secret of keeping young is to read children’s books. You read the books they write for little children and you’ll keep young. You read novels, philosophy, stuff like that and it makes you feel old.
The mere brute pleasure of reading – the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.
Buy good books, and read them; the best books are the commonest, and the last editions are always the best, if the editors are not blockheads.
Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various facets of them.