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 don’t believe in ‚thinking‘ old. Although I’ve transitioned through many bodies – a baby, toddler, child, teen, young adult, mid-life and older adult – my spirit is unchanged. I support my body with exercise, my mind with reading and writing, and my spirit with the knowing that I am part of the Divine source of all life.

I’ve been reading tabloids since I was nine. I love a good story.

The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money.

Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.

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

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

Isn’t it strange that I who have written only unpopular books should be such a popular fellow?

In books lies the soul of the whole past time.

I’ve tried to reduce profanity but I reduced so much profanity when writing the book that I’m afraid not much could come out. Perhaps we will have to consider it simply as a profane book and hope that the next book will be less profane or perhaps more sacred.

Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else’s head instead of with one’s own.

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.

Millions of students now, in all the schools of America, are reading science fiction and especially, thank God, ‚The Martian Chronicles.‘

‚Royal Beatings‘ was my first story, and it was published in 1977. But I sent all my early stories to ‚The New Yorker‘ in the 1950s, and then I stopped sending for a long time and sent only to magazines in Canada. ‚The New Yorker‘ sent me nice notes, though – penciled, informal messages. They never signed them. They weren’t terribly encouraging.

The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head.

The cool thing about reading is that when you read a short story or you read something that takes your mind and expands where your thoughts can go, that’s powerful.

Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

The problem isn’t that Johnny can’t read. The problem isn’t even that Johnny can’t think. The problem is that Johnny doesn’t know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling.

People want to know why I do this, why I write such gross stuff. I like to tell them I have the heart of a small boy… and I keep it in a jar on my desk.

I am not a self-help writer. I am a self-problem writer. When people read my books, I provoke some things. I cannot justify my work. I do my work; it is up to them to classify it, to judge.

I don’t read books much.

Libraries raised me.

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

Become slower in your journey through life. Practice yoga and meditation if you suffer from ‚hurry sickness.‘ Become more introspective by visiting quiet places such as churches, museums, mountains and lakes. Give yourself permission to read at least one novel a month for pleasure.

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

I try to read as much as I can. I try to read an informative article every day. I try to stay read up on our world issues.

Books can only reveal us to ourselves, and as often as they do us this service we lay them aside.

Certainly I’m not going to sit on the Internet all day and read what Sam from Iowa is saying about me. But I’m a sponge. I’ve always been a sponge.

The language of all the interpretations, the translations, of the Judaic Bible and the Christian Bible, is musical, just wonderful. I read the Bible to myself; I’ll take any translation, any edition, and read it aloud, just to hear the language, hear the rhythm, and remind myself how beautiful English is.

I started writing at the kitchen table after midnight. It took ten months to finish that first book; I sent it to a publisher and I got some kind of prize, so it was like a dream – I was surprised to find it happening.

Most people dream a dream when they are asleep. But to be a writer, you have to dream while you are awake, intentionally. So I get up early in the morning, 4 o’clock, and I sit at my desk and what I do is just dream. After three or four hours, that’s enough. In the afternoon, I run. The next day, the dream will continue.

You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems and suffer and understand, for all that is life.

When I write a book, I write a book for myself; the reaction is up to the reader. It’s not my business whether people like or dislike it.

The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.

How well he’s read, to reason against reading!

It’s very difficult to read a book on your computer.

I cannot read a single word of the Hindoos without being elevated.

A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.

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

I love great journalism. I appreciate it. I love a good, you know, I love good news stories. I love great books. I love great articles. I appreciate them so much, and they’ve been part of my education as a woman.

With all of their benefits, and there are many, one of the things I regret about e-books is that they have taken away the necessity of trawling foreign bookshops or the shelves of holiday houses to find something to read. I’ve come across gems and stinkers that way, and both can be fun.

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren’t very new at all.

I’ll tell you who I absolutely adore: Ian McEwan.

You don’t read in your own field. You read in that field when you’re young, so that you can learn.

Read with care, George Orwell’s diaries, from the years 1931 to 1949, can greatly enrich our understanding of how Orwell transmuted the raw material of everyday experience into some of his best-known novels and polemics.

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.

I will carry on writing, to be sure. But I don’t know if I would want to publish again after Harry Potter.

One whose knowledge is confined to books and whose wealth is in the possession of others, can use neither his knowledge nor wealth when the need for them arises.

It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.

The tablet is not mainstream. Reading off the screen is not mainstream.

I would never want a book’s autograph. I am a proud non-reader of books.

My priority is my books, at least at this point. What I have to do is write the narrative of this time.

If a secret history of books could be written, and the author’s private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader!

Dickens is one of those authors who are well worth stealing.

I’ve just always been a reader.

There is no friend as loyal as a book.

You see, the interesting thing about books, as opposed, say, to films, is that it’s always just one person encountering the book, it’s not an audience, it’s one to one.

I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.

Every author in some way portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will.

Whether you come back by page or by the big screen, Hogwarts will always be there to welcome you home.