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

A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good.

I’m sure most parents read to their children to explain what certain things mean. So books are a good way to convey a message to anybody. Everybody reads.

In America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category.

Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.

When you read, I’m sure you don’t realize that your eyes are going backwards and forwards and to this place and that place. Mine don’t do that.

The worst, most dangerous person to America is clearly Paula Deen.

I don’t think anybody in America ought to be scared.

The first stories I wrote when I was 12 were about Mars and landing on Mars.

Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.

I had no ambition to be a writer because the books I read were too good, my standards were too high.

The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.

I started out in life as a poet; I was only writing poetry all through my 20s. It wasn’t until I was about 30 that I got serious about writing prose. While I was writing poems, I would often divert myself by reading detective novels; I liked them.

America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.

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.

America’s commitment to collective defense under Article 5 of NATO is a sacred obligation in our view – a sacred obligation not just for now, but for all time.

I have found out in later years that we were very poor, but the glory of America is that we didn’t know it then.

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.

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

I was a very keen reader of science fiction.

I was a very keen reader of science fiction, and during the time I was going to libraries, it was good, written by people who knew their science.

America’s experience, like many others, teaches us that fostering entrepreneurship is not just about crafting the right economic policy or developing the best educated curricula. It’s about creating an entire climate in which innovation and ideas flourish.

I have found far greater enthusiasm for science in America than here in Britain. There is more enthusiasm for everything in America.

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

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

I would dream. I focused all my attention on going to America. The subculture, James Dean, the rock n‘ roll, the beat writers.

The best book, like the best speech, will do it all – make us laugh, think, cry and cheer – preferably in that order.

A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.

I’ve only written one science-fiction book: ‚Fahrenheit 451.‘ That book is a book based on real facts and my hatred of people who destroy books.

I think America has always been polarized.

I’ve actually not read any books on time management.

Indeed, we’re strongest when the face of America isn’t only a soldier carrying a gun but also a diplomat negotiating peace, a Peace Corps volunteer bringing clean water to a village, or a relief worker stepping off a cargo plane as floodwaters rise.

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

Nobody’s ever called me Sir Richard. Occasionally in America, I hear people saying Sir Richard and think there’s some Shakespearean play taking place. But nowhere else anyway.

I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.

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

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.

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

Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.

Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.

I always knew from that moment, from the time I found myself at home in that little segregated library in the South, all the way up until I walked up the steps of the New York City library, I always felt, in any town, if I can get to a library, I’ll be OK. It really helped me as a child, and that never left me.

Today we did what we had to do. They counted on America to be passive. They counted wrong.

The spirit of America has nurtured responsibility and community unlike any other country.

America is a country of inventors, and the greatest of inventors are the newspaper men.

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

I don’t think the Christian Right dominates America in the way some in the media believe they do.

Little by little, not by making big promises, I need to be calmer, read more, spend more time with my loved ones, and be more mindful about nature and environment.

It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.

Science fiction, to me, has not only things that wouldn’t happen, but other planets.

In America today, we are nearer a final triumph over poverty than is any other land.

Are we simply waving farewell to the days when some of the most interesting thinking in Europe and America came to us from our fiction film-makers? BBC2, which once introduced and showed great films, now shows none.

Organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year and spends very little on office supplies.

In England, an inventor is regarded almost as a crazy man, and in too many instances, invention ends in disappointment and poverty. In America, an inventor is honoured, help is forthcoming, and the exercise of ingenuity, the application of science to the work of man, is there the shortest road to wealth.

There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure.

I’ve loved reading all my life.

We welcome the scrutiny of the world – because what you see in America is a country that has steadily worked to address our problems and make our union more perfect.

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

It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it.

When I was seven or eight years old, I began to read the science-fiction magazines that were brought by guests into my grandparents‘ boarding house in Waukegan, Illinois. Those were the years when Hugo Gernsback was publishing ‚Amazing Stories,‘ with vivid, appallingly imaginative cover paintings that fed my hungry imagination.

I could speak three languages when I was six, and when I went to school, I only liked to read and sketch. At five, I could write and everything.

I am not a fan of books.