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.

You send a boy to school in order to make friends – the right sort.

Whether I’m at the office, at home, or on the road, I always have a stack of books I’m looking forward to reading.

Women have to summon up courage to fulfill dormant dreams.

Science fiction is any idea that occurs in the head and doesn’t exist yet, but soon will, and will change everything for everybody, and nothing will ever be the same again. As soon as you have an idea that changes some small part of the world you are writing science fiction. It is always the art of the possible, never the impossible.

Behold the child, by Nature’s kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.

Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.

You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

When a person starts to talk about their dreams, it’s as if something bubbles up from within. Their eyes brighten, their face glows, and you can feel the excitement in their words.

I’ve just always been a reader.

When I was young, poverty was so common that we didn’t know it had a name.

I take inspiration from everyone and everything. I’m inspired by current champions, former champions, true competitors, people dedicated to their dream, hard workers, dreamers, believers, achievers.

I was a very keen reader of science fiction.

I affirm to you the tremendous potential you have, not beyond anything you could ever imagine.

Don’t just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.

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.

A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us.

Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.

All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.

Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul but his life.

An unimaginative person can neither be reverent or kind.

From the boys‘ point of view, scouting puts them into fraternity-gangs, which is their natural organisation, whether for games, mischief, or loafing; it gives them a smart dress and equipments; it appeals to their imagination and romance; and it engages them in an active, open-air life.

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.

If you can’t read, the only thing you can do is enjoy the pictures, not the whole story. Reading is the key to knowledge. Knowledge is the key to understanding. So read on, young man! Read on, young lady!

I learned to read very early so I could read the comics, which I then started to draw.

I couldn’t say I ever dreamt of becoming a composer, a pianist, or anything else for that matter. I have the kind of brain where nothing is set in stone.

Many people tell me that they don ‚t know what to feel when they finish one of my books because the story was dark, or complicated, or strange. But while they were reading it, they were inside my world and they were happy. That’s good.

I was just a young guy who was excited to become a comedian and an actor and I just wanted to get to do what I got to do.

Myth and fairy-story must, as all art, reflect and contain in solution elements of moral and religious truth (or error), but not explicit, not in the known form of the primary ‚real‘ world.

Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn’t.

Upon the farm of the uncle with whom I lived, we did know of the mortgage as some dreadful damper on youthful hopes of things that could not be bought. I do have a vivid recollection that the major purpose of a farm was to produce a living right on the spot for the family.

Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.

I’m looking forward to becoming a marvelous – excuse the word marvelous – character actress. like Marie Dressler, like Will Rogers.

I am against nature. I don’t dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can’t touch with decay.

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 grew up in a very nice house in Houston, went to private school all my life and I’ve never even been to the ‚hood. Not that there’s anything wrong with the ‚hood.

Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you’d drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It’s more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.

I praticed making faces in the mirror and it would drive my mother crazy. She used to scare me by saying that I was going to see the devil if I kept looking in the mirror. That fascinated me even more, of course.

When I was a child, I was very poor and wanted everything. So when I got money, I began buying things.

Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.

I hated school. Even to this day, when I see a school bus it’s just depressing to me. The poor little kids.

I can honestly say – and it’s a big surprise to me – that I have never had a dream about being on the moon.

I can’t remember what made my dad take us karting for the first time, I can’t remember really. I was into motorsport by then and I knew everything, and every driver, it was around 2009, 2008. That’s when I first properly knew about Formula One. Those were the days.

My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.

Most rock journalism is people who can’t write, interviewing people who can’t talk, for people who can’t read.

You can’t die with an unfinished book.

Like so many American families, our families weren’t asking for much. They didn’t begrudge anyone else’s success or care that others had much more than they did… in fact, they admired it.

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.

I was raised a Catholic on both sides of the family. I went to a Catholic grade school and thought everybody in the country was Catholic, because that’s all I ever was associated with.

I was born in a very poor family. I used to sell tea in a railway coach as a child. My mother used to wash utensils and do lowly household work in the houses of others to earn a livelihood. I have seen poverty very closely. I have lived in poverty. As a child, my entire childhood was steeped in poverty.

I learned to walk as a baby, and I haven’t had a lesson since.

I stayed true to my dreams and, eventually, they came true.

I once wanted to prove myself by being a great actress. Now I want to prove that I’m a person. Then maybe I’ll be a great actress.

If you even dream of beating me you’d better wake up and apologize.

Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.

The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.

How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it?

Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them.

I have trouble reading modern Hebrew. In the 1950s, I could read anything. I don’t know how much experience you’ve had with contemporary Hebrew. It’s quite difficult.