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.

The world is too violent right now.

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

There is no author whose books I look forward to more than Vaclav Smil.

Books are divided into two classes, the books of the hour and the books of all time.

Shakespeare didn’t work at all for me.

I pay attention to politics and technology.

If you can’t read, it’s going to be hard to realize dreams.

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

Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books.

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

Sometimes, reading a blog, which I do infrequently, I see that generations of Americans have been wilfully crippled, and can no longer spell or write a sentence.

I am not a fan of books.

It’s not possible to advise a young writer because every young writer is so different. You might say, ‚Read,‘ but a writer can read too much and be paralyzed. Or, ‚Don’t read, don’t think, just write,‘ and the result could be a mountain of drivel.

Between the ages of fifteen and twenty-four, I must have read a whole library.

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.

I’m mainstream.

I grew up reading science fiction.

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

A good day is one where I can not just read a book, but write a review of it. Maybe today I’ll be able to do that. I get for some reason somewhat stronger when the sun starts to go down. Dusk is a good time for me. I’m crepuscular.

Just be a cool grandpa who’s creative, and hang out and tell stories and read a book in the library.

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

Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads.

My mother insisted that her children read.

From a child I was fond of reading, and all the little money that came into my hands was ever laid out in books. Pleased with the ‚Pilgrim’s Progress,‘ my first collection was of John Bunyan’s works in separate little volumes.

For 18 years I have resisted talking about current events. I am not going to start now.

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

The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That’s one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living.

Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning.

Sadly, I do my homework. I’ve a soft spot for the boring minutiae. I read the Charter of the United Nations before meeting with Kofi Annan. I read the Meltzer report, and then I’ll read C. Fred Bergsten’s defense of institutions like the World Bank and the I.M.F. It’s embarrassing to admit.

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

I can’t tell you the number of times I looked down at what was going on on the ground, or I was engaged in a fight somewhere, and I knew within a couple of minutes how I was going to screw up the enemy. And I knew it because I’d done so much reading.

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

I don’t follow politics much.

Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no young readers and writers, there will shortly be no older ones. Literacy will be dead, and democracy – which many believe goes hand in hand with it – will be dead as well.

Books are alive, you see. They’re not dead, they’re alive.

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.

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

More people should read books. It’s the most concentrated experience you can have.

I don’t read books much.

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted… but to weigh and consider.

When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading.

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

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

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.

Politically, the world is so confused right now – there’s so much suffering caused by various movements by various parties and people in power in government.

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.

I’ve done auditions where the casting director is taking the paper out of my hand in the middle of reading.

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

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.

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

I was a very keen reader of science fiction.

It seems the only way to gain attention today is to organize a march and protest something.

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

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

The myth that everyone once read great literature is just a myth.

The only superstition I have is that I must start a new book on the same day that I finish the last one, even if it’s just a few notes in a file. I dread not having work in progress.

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’m not a reality-TV kind of guy. But it’s almost like we’re living in a reality show. Every day in this country, everybody keeps worrying about the deterioration of America, and it’s like a big reality show.

I must say I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book.

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