Reading Quotes
On books, ideas, and a lifelong reading habit.
This collection includes a musician's case for teaching reading and dictation before an instrument, alongside a simple, almost self-deprecating admission of feeling born reading. See Book quotes for more.
Writing and reading fiction is, I think, a human effort to make sense of the world.
I think that my passion for writing fantasy began at about the same time as my passion for reading fantasy.
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I think it's really hard to draw a hard-and-fast line and say 'Grimm's Fairy Tales' doesn't count as science fiction or fantasy. Or at what point do we say mythology is not fantasy, so reading mythology when you're young does...
I grew up reading comic books. Super hero comic books, Archie comic books, horror comic books, you name it.
I spend many evenings reading or continuing the day's work, but I also enjoy playing the piano, jogging, and traveling with the family.
All alone in a committee room of the Senate Office Building in Washington, I was reading the dry typewritten pages in an unpublished report of an almost forgotten congressional committee hearing.
Yes, I have over the years done a lot of the audio books, which are just plain reading.
The decision to write in prose instead of poetry is made more by the readers than by writers. Almost no one is interested in reading narrative in verse.
The poetry of Walt Whitman. I can return again and again to these magnificent poems and still get pleasure from reading them.
I'm comfortable reading science and dissecting it and discerning the difference between junk science and real science.
I'm a very skeptical guy: my willing suspension of disbelief doesn't go very far when I'm reading other people's SF, and it goes even less far when I'm writing my own.
I don't think anyone can accept us being 51st in the country dealing with fourth-grade math scores and reading scores in the fourth and sixth grades that are close to the bottom. That's not acceptable. It's not acceptable to the...
One of the reasons why I think people have gone from reading mainstream newspapers to the Internet is because they realize they're being lied to.
I loved reading when the critics in New York would say that some of my films reminded them of Lenny Bruce.
Suddenly the whole imagination of writing and editorial and newspaper and all these presumptions about who am I reading this, and who else other people may be, and all that, it's so grimly brutal!
The awful thing, as a kid reading, was that you came to the end of the story, and that was it. I mean, it would be heartbreaking that there was no more of it.
With comics, you've got to develop some kind of shorthand. You can't make every drawing look like a detailed etching. The average reader actually doesn't want all that detail; it interferes with the flow of the reading process.
There are no taboos. Every topic is open, however shocking. It is the way that the topics are handled that's important, and that applies whether it is a 15-year-old who is reading your book or someone who is 55.
