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

If my films make one more person miserable, I’ll feel I have done my job.

One Ad is worth more to a paper than forty Editorials.

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

When I was a kid, I read the science-fiction shelves, and I read the fantasy shelves.

Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all.

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.

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.

The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who’ll get me a book I ain’t read.

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.

I think the definition of a book is changing.

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

Maybe I’ll give Broadway a try. But you know what would be great? Hosting the Oscars. I promise you, that would be a show no one forgot.

Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn.

When you pick up a book, everyone knows it’s imaginary. You don’t have to pretend it’s not a book. We don’t have to pretend that people don’t write books. That omniscient third-person narration isn’t the only way to do it. Once you’re writing in the first person, then the narrator is a writer.

One of the powerful temptations is that of the cinema palace. The cinema has undoubtedly an enormous attraction for boys, and people are constantly cudgelling their brains how to stop it. But it is one of those things which would be very difficult to stop even if it were altogether desirable.

Wrestling is intimate. You can reach out and touch the wrestlers.

I grew up reading science fiction.

I love crime, I love mysteries, and I love ghosts.

When you’re young, you keep reading new writers and you keep changing your mind about how you ought to sound.

Are you laboring under the impression that I read these memoranda of yours? I can’t even lift them.

Whatever came to mind, whatever came to hand, I would read.

Newspaper readership is still growing in India.

If Jesus were here today, he wouldn’t be riding around on a donkey. He’d be taking a plane, he’d be using the media.

Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.

I’m not besotted with the notion of being on CNN to the point that I’m going to suddenly morph into Anderson Cooper or Christiane Amanpour. I’m not a foreign correspondent.

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

Man, I really like Vegas.

Perhaps if you are in support functions waiting on the warfighters to spell out the specifics of what you are to do, you can avoid the consequences of not reading. Those who must adapt to overcoming an independent enemy’s will are not allowed that luxury.

Every book you pick up has its own lesson or lessons, and quite often the bad books have more to teach than the good ones.

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.

Headlines, in a way, are what mislead you because bad news is a headline, and gradual improvement is not.

I’m a singer, not a politician, and I think you don’t want the two to get confused. It’s not OK to be on CNN talking about people starving and then tell the interviewer that your new album is coming out in six months.

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.

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

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

Many people listen to what I have to say and I appear a lot in media, so therefore I influence a lot of people and therefore I have a bigger responsibility because I have a bigger platform.

I think the reason I don’t read is because, when I’m reading, I feel like I’m missing out on something else. You know, What are my friends doing? Where’s my girlfriend?

A capacity, and taste, for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.

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

I knew early on that I wanted to entertain in some form. And I knew I would work as hard as anyone to do it.

Lots of people who complained about us receiving the MBE received theirs for heroism in the war – for killing people. We received ours for entertaining other people. I’d say we deserve ours more.

When I do stand-up shows at colleges, girls will talk to me after the show, and that always feels good. I like talking to them.

I want more of my favorite artists or more of the guy that makes the anthems. I want more.

Nothing feels better than going onstage and everybody is singing every word – and actually wanting to see you.

I’ve been thinking of humorous things since I was… I can’t remember when. All the way through elementary school, all the way through junior high, all the way through high school, through college and after college, I was thinking of the same kinds of things that I say in front of an audience now.

You can’t die with an unfinished book.

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.

People hear about stuff from their friends or a magazine or a newspaper.

My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water.

Reading and writing are connected. I learned to read very early so I could read the comics, which I then started to draw.

For me, the way I stay consistent is through stand-up comedy.

And I try to give the best bang for the buck. I love performing more than anything else.

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

All I know is just what I read in the papers, and that’s an alibi for my ignorance.

I like Cardi B!

You make ‚em, I amuse ‚em.

All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.

One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing.

Chris Rock does the political thing really well, but that never worked for me.