A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.

I’ve never known any trouble than an hour’s reading didn’t assuage.

Football changed my life and it gave me a platform to get out my aggression and it gave me a sense of value.

O! Let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven; keep me in temper; I would not be mad!

I have a brother and sister; my mother does not care for thought, and father, too busy with his briefs to notice what we do. He buys me many books, but begs me not to read them, because he fears they joggle the mind.

You will be as much value to others as you have been to yourself.

The true measure of the value of any business leader and manager is performance.

The first book I ever really read was Plato’s ‚Republic,‘ and then I had to go over that five times or something.

I haven’t read Horowitz. I didn’t used to read him when he was a Stalinist, and I don’t read him today.

I grew up reading science fiction.

My favourite poem is the one that starts ‚Thirty days hath September‘ because it actually tells you something.

I liked to write from the time I was about 12 or 13. I loved to read. And since I only spoke to my brother, I would write down my thoughts. And I think I wrote some of the worst poetry west of the Rockies. But by the time I was in my 20s, I found myself writing little essays and more poetry – writing at writing.

As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.

As for hobbies, I don’t really read or watch TV.

Don Quixote’s misfortune is not his imagination, but Sancho Panza.

Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.

I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.

Excessive literary production is a social offense.

In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.

A great poet is the most precious jewel of a nation.

I read all the time, and I’m often struck by something I’m reading.

If music be the food of love, play on.

I don’t do Shakespeare. I don’t talk in that kind of broken English.

As you know, low demand and high supply means a drop in value of anything, including the dollar.

We should seek the greatest value of our action.

It usually helps me write by reading – somehow the reading gear in your head turns the writing gear.

What I can say is that all my characters are searching for their souls, because they are my mirrors. I’m someone who is constantly trying to understand my place in the world, and literature is the best way that I found in order to see myself.

A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.

Libraries raised me.

You can’t die with an unfinished book.

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.

How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.

I just feel that ‚The Color Purple,‘ which was my 10th book, was a true gift from my ancestors.

In Hollywood the woods are full of people that learned to write but evidently can’t read. If they could read their stuff, they’d stop writing.

Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today – but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.

‚For Whom the Bell Tolls‘ was a problem which I carried on each day. I knew what was going to happen in principle. But I invented what happened each day I wrote.

To describe my scarce leisure time in today’s terms, I always default to reading.

The best books… are those that tell you what you know already.

I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.

All good books have one thing in common – they are truer than if they had really happened.

The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.

What’s the use of happiness? It can’t buy you money.

Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.

‚Mystic River‘ just smelled interesting to me. So I read it and liked it right away. Even the dialogue in it was great.

It is quality rather than quantity that matters.

Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.

I’m not a nerd, don’t plan to be a nerd and read books – which I can’t do at all.

Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.

Shakespeare didn’t work at all for me.

Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad.

Rameswaram has, since antiquity, been an important pilgrimage destination.

To me, reading a fashion magazine is the last thing I need to do. I’ve got books I need to read.

The best book, like the best speech, will do it all – make us laugh, think, cry and cheer – preferably in that order.

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.

Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger.

If literature isn’t everything, it’s not worth a single hour of someone’s trouble.

Digital technology allows us a much larger scope to tell stories that were pretty much the grounds of the literary media.

I read a lot of obscure books and it is nice to open a book.

No book includes the entire world. It’s limited. And so it doesn’t seem like an aesthetic compromise to have to do that. There’s so much other material to write about.

After you finish a book, you know, you’re dead. But no one knows you’re dead. All they see is the irresponsibility that comes in after the terrible responsibility of writing.

Good jokes are gems. A good idea is hard to come by. I couldn’t give them to someone else, even for money. It just wouldn’t seem right.