I’ve read everything Thomas Wolfe ever wrote; my brother and I memorized whole chapters of ‚You Can’t Go Home Again‘ and ‚Look Homeward, Angel.‘

I’m an early riser. I get up between five and six, have coffee, and read for a couple of hours before everyone else gets up.

I’m a bookworm. I know with my physical appearance that I don’t look like the typical reader. I’m in Barnes & Noble all the time, and you can look at people that look like they are supposed to be in there. I am in there, pants sagging, hat backwards.

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

I don’t generally read a lot of fiction.

George Carlin’s album, ‚Class Clown,‘ came out when I was in high school. I memorized a lot of that album. I’d come home from school, put it on, and listen over and over. I started memorizing it. I don’t even know why. I loved it so much I memorized it.

I don’t read books much.

In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.

I am an angel. I was sent here from God to heal.

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 read all the time, and I’m often struck by something I’m reading.

I know that some books and some writers, you can pretty much draw a square around it and say, ‚Nobody under 40,‘ or ‚Nobody under 25.‘ With my books, it always has been, and continues to be, spread right across the board, and I think the operative term is ‚reader.‘

My husband and I had to raise five of my younger brothers and sisters. They lived with us. We sent them to school.

I was born in Earl K. Long Hospital. I was born Feb. 5th, 1986. I have a lot of family members. My grandmother had five girls, and all of them had children. It was always a house full. A lot of cousins. A lot of family members.

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.

We do not know where to look, or what to look for, when something is memorized. We do not know what it means, or what change there is in the nervous system, when a fact is learned. This is a very important problem which has not been solved at all.

I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.

In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.

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

I read a lot. I enjoy reading a lot.

If I ever had twins, I’d use one for parts.

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.

My mom’s one of 13 siblings, and they all got six kids, and till I was 13 everybody was in Compton.

All of my brothers and sisters are very talented. They all sang all right.

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.

When I was nine years old, living on the south side of Chicago, my father was a minister and my mother used to scrub floors. I had seven brothers and four sisters. I told my mama, ‚One of these days I’m going to be big and strong and buy you a beautiful house.‘ That’s all I’ve ever wanted to do with my life, is to take care of my mother.

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

The multitude of books is making us ignorant.

Ebooks had to happen.

Evolution was far more thrilling to me than the biblical account. Who would not rather be a rising ape than a falling angel? To my juvenile eyes, Darwin was proved true every day. It doesn’t take much to make us flip back into monkeys again.

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

There are no second acts in American lives.

My elder brothers were all put apprentices to different trades. I was put to the grammar-school at eight years of age, my father intending to devote me, as the tithe of his sons, to the service of the Church.

My brother and I were both good at science, and we were both good at English literature. Either one of us could have gone either way.

Previous generations understood about death, and undoubtedly would have seen a reasonable amount of death. Once you get into the Victorian era, you might well have seen the funerals of many of your siblings before you were very old.

‚Recreative‘ is a word that I invented because in urban culture, with colloquialism, we invent so many slangs. I don’t like the way that ‚recreational‘ sounds – I don’t like to say I do a lot of ‚recreational‘ reading. I like to say that I read ‚recreatively.‘ I do a lot of ‚recreative‘ reading.

After momma gave birth to 12 of us kids, we put her up on a pedestal. It was mostly to keep Daddy away from her.

In military school, on day one you must memorize the mission of the Merchant Marine Academy.

Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

I think I belong to America’s last generation of novelists. Novelists will come one by one from now on, not in seeming families, and will perhaps write only one or two novels, and let it go at that.

Miss a meal if you have to, but don’t miss a book.

Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it.

You have to have really wide reading habits and pay attention to the news and just everything that’s going on in the world: you need to. If you get this right, then the writing is a piece of cake.

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

I knew by heart all the dialogue of James Dean’s films; I could watch Rebel Without a Cause a hundred times over.

I don’t generally read reviews.

A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint.

My advice is this. For Christ’s sake, don’t write a book that is suitable for a kid of 12 years old, because the kids who read who are 12 years old are reading books for adults. I read all of the James Bond books when I was about 11, which was approximately the right time to read James Bond books.

All of my friends who have younger siblings who are going to college or high school – my number one piece of advice is: You should learn how to program.

I was born January 6, 1937, eight years after Wall Street crashed and two years before John Steinbeck published The Grapes of Wrath, his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about the plight of a family during the Great Depression.

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

I’ve read a lot of books on the laws of attraction, and in my home, I have a big book on Muhammad Ali, which I’ve read because he is, like, a hero of mine, but other than that, no, I’m not a big reader.

SNL is a home. You’ve got all of your brothers and sisters there, and it’s a great time.

You know, my sister sings, my brother plays drums in my band. My whole family is a bunch of musicians.

Married or single, you sisters possess distinctive capabilities and special intuition you have received as gifts from God. We brethren cannot duplicate your unique influence.

I don’t even call them fans. I don’t like that. They’re literally just a part of my life; they’re a part of my family. I don’t think of them as on a lower level than me. I don’t think I’m anything but equal to all of them. So yeah, they’re basically all of my siblings.

All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.

I’ve just always been a reader.

John D. Rockefeller apparently became more of a tightwad the richer he got. I don’t know if it is true, but one story I read was about one of his sons having to wear his older sister’s clothes in order to save money.

I cannot live without books.

I’m not well-read, but when I read, I read well.