You can’t get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.

The mere brute pleasure of reading the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.

People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.

Sometimes I try to just sit at home and do something calmer and simpler and just be in my life. You know, not trying to solve a lot of things at once.

Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.

With all of their benefits, and there are many, one of the things I regret about e-books is that they have taken away the necessity of trawling foreign bookshops or the shelves of holiday houses to find something to read. I’ve come across gems and stinkers that way, and both can be fun.

One thing that writers have in common is that they are readers first. They have read lots and lots of stuff, because they’re just infested with lots of stuff.

Aging can be fun if you lay back and enjoy it.

Someone asked me, if I were stranded on a desert island what book would I bring… ‚How to Build a Boat.‘

Everything in the world exists to end up in a book.

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

Hmm, on my downtime, I take a shower or listen to the Bible on tape.

The only film I’ve enjoyed starring a wrestler was Mickey Rourke in ‚The Wrestler.‘

I’ve just finished my 20th book this past year and I’m working on my 21st book about the Middle East right now that I’ll finish this year. And I get up early in the morning and when I get tired of the computer and tired of doing research, I walk 20 steps out to my woodshop and I either build furniture or paint paintings. I’m an artist too.

Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.

I’m definitely looking forward to the day when I stop working – if I ever stop working. I like the idea of keeling over in my tomato vines in Sardinia or northern Italy.

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.

You just do what you can and you have as much fun as possible.

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

I read poetry to save time.

To buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them.

The problem isn’t that Johnny can’t read. The problem isn’t even that Johnny can’t think. The problem is that Johnny doesn’t know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling.

Man never thinks himself happy, but when he enjoys those things which others want or desire.

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

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!

We enjoy the process far more than the proceeds.

A reader can never tell if it’s a real thimble or an imaginary thimble, because by the time you’re reading it, they’re the same. It’s a thimble. It’s in the book.

When we give ourselves the chance to let go of all our tension, the body’s natural capacity to heal itself can begin to work.

Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities.

I am the man who accompanied Jacqueline Kennedy to Paris, and I have enjoyed it.

A room without books is like a body without a soul.

I never experiment with anything in my books. Experimentation means you don’t know what you’re doing.

A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts.

I am a part of everything that I have read.

I think that success is having fun.

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.

You stay teachable most by reading books. By reading what other people went through.

There’s nothing more comfortable or leisurely than having a pair of Ugg slippers on in the house.

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.

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

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

Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.

I was enjoying myself writing, because I don’t know what’s going to happen when I take a ride around that corner. You don’t know at all what you’re going to find there. That can be thrilling when you read a book, especially when you’re a kid and you’re reading stories.

If it’s good music, it’s good music.

I’m screamingly funny, you know, I really am in the books. And that helps because I’m funnier than a lot of people, I think, and that’s appreciated by young people.

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.

Every device there is in language is there to be used, if you will. Poets have got to enjoy themselves sometimes, and the twistings and convolutions of words, the inventions and contrivances, are all part of the joy that is part of the painful, voluntary work.

If a secret history of books could be written, and the author’s private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader!

Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages.

The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head.

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

The book is not really the container for the book. The book itself is the narrative. It’s the thing that people create.

I read a lot. I enjoy reading a lot.

Right now I’m just delighted to be alive and to have had a nice long bath.

When you have nobody you can make a cup of tea for, when nobody needs you, that’s when I think life is over.

There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.

In music the passions enjoy themselves.

For a highly motivated learner, it’s not like knowledge is secret and somehow the Internet made it not secret. It just made knowledge easy to find. If you’re a motivated enough learner, books are pretty good.

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

All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.