I read a lot when I’m travelling and always have a couple of books on the go.

One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time.

I am not a fan of books.

Hong Kong is a wonderful, mixed-up town where you’ve got great food and adventure. First and foremost, it’s a great place to experience China in a relatively accessible way.

If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot. There’s no way around these two things that I’m aware of, no shortcut.

I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn.

I’ve been to those places where it’s ‚poor, pitiful me.‘

But by reading them again and again finally I was able to grasp the essential part. What emotion, enthusiasm, enlightenment and confidence they communicated to me! I wept for joy.

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.

If I like a thing, it just sticks after once reading it or hearing it.

London is a roost for every bird.

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.

I would always want printed books.

By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.

If I can give you one strong piece of advice, when you go away for that romantic weekend, whatever you do, do not accept or take the upgrade to the honeymoon suite.

A person who won’t read has no advantage over one who can’t read.

For the execution of the voyage to the Indies, I did not make use of intelligence, mathematics or maps.

When I went back to England after a year away, the country seemed stuck, dozing in a fairy tale, stifled by the weight of tradition.

I don’t watch television and I rarely go to the cinema, but I recently watched ‚The King’s Speech‘ on a flight. It was so beautiful and so simple.

I just really want to get music out and tour and go places I’ve never been, and just do more videos. I love photography and videography, and so I really want to direct videos when I can.

I don’t think I’ve ever read poetry, ever.

The moment I said I’d finished a book, I knew what would happen. There would be a bidding war, and I would end up with someone who’d got the fattest wallet, who had bought it because I’d written Harry Potter. That would have been why.

Wherever I go, as long as I get a hot vegetable dish, I am okay. If I am in Gujarat, I have Gujarati food. If it’s Shillong, it’s northeastern.

Trees go wandering forth in all directions with every wind, going and coming like ourselves, traveling with us around the sun two million miles a day, and through space heaven knows how fast and far!

I read about eight newspapers in a day. When I’m in a town with only one newspaper, I read it eight times.

The book is not really the container for the book. The book itself is the narrative. It’s the thing that people create.

I don’t read ‚chick lit,‘ fantasy or science fiction but I’ll give any book a chance if it’s lying there and I’ve got half an hour to kill.

I’ve been to Disneyland, like, 10 times. I’m getting really tired of Disneyland.

If you want to go somewhere, it is best to find someone who has already been there.

I was gutted to leave my boyfriend at home when I started my tour, but taking my pillow was like taking a little bit of him with me.

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

Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect my travels were very useful to me.

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.

I’m terrible at reading scripts. I love to read, and I hate reading scripts.

We travel often to Asia, Africa, Europe, where they were born.

I’ve never canceled a subscription to a newspaper because of bad cartoons or editorials. If that were the case, I wouldn’t have any newspapers or magazines to read.

If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.

A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.

A book should serve as the ax for the frozen sea within us.

If you had to buy a new plane every time you flew somewhere, it would be incredibly expensive.

If anything, I get most upset because I wanna read a good paper first thing in the morning. And if I see a lie about myself flash across the front of the cover, I don’t think much of the rest of the newspaper.

I am not solicitous to examine particularly everything here, which indeed could not be done in fifty years, because my desire is to make all possible discoveries, and return to your Highnesses, if it please our Lord, in April.

I read to my kid, but I can’t stand reading.

I never go anywhere. I do sketches and make phone calls, and people visit. It’s more fun to come to Paris.

I feel like I’m too busy writing history to read it.

I got to Africa. I got the opportunity to go and learn, not about any animal, but chimpanzees. I was living in my dream world, the forest in Gombe National Park in Tanzania. It was Tanganyika when I began.

Big stuff and little: learning how to order breakfast in a country where I don’t speak the language and haven’t been before – that’s really satisfying to me. I like that.

In the book of Gaga, fame is in your heart, fame is there to comfort you, to bring you self-confidence and worth whenever you need it.

Man, I really like Vegas.

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

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

And I wound up in New Orleans for all those years and it was a great place, really a catalyst creatively.

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

I was born in Europe… and I’ve traveled all over the world. I can tell you that there is no place, no country, that is more compassionate, more generous, more accepting, and more welcoming than the United States of America.

I’m always trying. Between every book, I think, ‚Well now, it’s time to get down to the serious stuff.‘

Acting helped me as I was growing up. It helped me learn about myself, helped me travel, helped me understand life, express myself, all those wonderful things. So I’m very, very grateful; it’s a fun job. It’s a luxury.

Sometimes the greatest meals on vacations are the ones you find when Plan A falls through.

In books lies the soul of the whole past time.

You cannot open a book without learning something.

Some books leave us free and some books make us free.

One of the triumphs of the Civil Rights Movement is that when you travel through the South today, you do not feel overwhelmed by a residue of grievance and hate.