Reading about nature is fine, but if a person walks in the woods and listens carefully, he can learn more than what is in books, for they speak with the voice of God. – George Washington Carver
I have always loved reading, so was interested in the literary world, and took many literary portraits. – Fay Godwin
Books are mind reading devices; they allow us free access to the thoughts and dreams of people we have never met. – Debi Gliori
There isn’t any distinction between a reader and a writer – reading is so much a part of it. – Dermot Healy
I discovered reading through libraries. I grew up in a house that wasn’t brimming with books. – Mark Billingham
Court TV. I can’t stop watching it. I am absolutely obsessed! If I’m not reading a book or spending time with my husband, my friends or my dog, I am watching Court TV. – Debra Messing
There are some great women’s roles in television… so much more interesting than what I was reading in film scripts. – Miranda Otto
Data is very important, but you have to be good at reading the data in an emotional way. If you look at a selling report, there’s an emotional trend to what’s selling. – Mickey Drexler
Reading is such a personal thing to me. I’d much rather give someone a gift certificate to a bookstore, and let that person choose his or her own books. – Erik Larson
My mother had to stop me reading to make me go and get some fresh air. I used to get so annoyed. She actually had to sit on my book because, otherwise, I would find it. – Michelle Paver
I began to imitate what I was reading, and I started to become a poet, even though what I was writing were not good poems. – Edward Hirsch
For the moment, whenever I read, it is normally scripts. You start a book and then you think, ‘I should be reading these five scripts.’ – Douglas Booth
In 1969, we emigrated to Australia. It was a big change. The heat, the flies, and the completely different tinned meats. The shock was so great, I stopped reading books for nearly a year. – Morris Gleitzman
What the war did was give me the opportunity of three years of continuous reading, and it was in the course of reading that I became convinced that I should become an economist. – Douglass North
I knew just by reading this guy, Nathanael West, that he was probably one of those icky East Coast guys with glasses who got mad because when he came to L.A., all those starlets preferred producers or cowboys to him. – Eve Babitz
I don’t know if any single book made me want to write. C.S. Lewis was the first writer to make me aware that somebody was writing the book I was reading – these wonderful parenthetical asides to the reader. – Neil Gaiman
I realized very young that I loved reading and wanted to do something related to books/reading for a living. I didn’t think of publishing, really, until I was out of college. – Ellen Datlow
I was born and raised in Ohio. During my childhood, I spent most of my time drawing and reading fairy tales and myths. – Natalie Babbitt
I read ‘The Hobbit’ only when I was an adult. I had a lot of friends, teenagers, who discovered reading through ‘The Hobbit,’ but it wasn’t something that I discovered until later in life. – Matthew Reilly
I’m reading Sebastian Faulks’s ‘Birdsong’ at the moment. I read it when I was younger but decided to re-read it, as I remembered really liking it at the time. – Eliza Doolittle
When you’re reading a book, you’re always looking for the natural place to stop. With a movie, you can’t really have that sense of it coming momentarily to a halt; there’s pressure to keep the momentum up. – David Nicholls
If I eat mindlessly while watching television, reading, or talking with someone else, I can go through an entire meal without tasting the food, without even noticing that I’ve been eating. The plate is empty but I didn’t enjoy the food – I had all of the calories and little of the pleasure. – Dean Ornish
Harper Lee and Truman Capote became friends as next-door neighbors in the late 1920s, when they were about kindergarten age. From the start, they recognized in each other “an apartness,” as Capote later expressed it; and both loved reading. When Lee’s father gave them an old Underwood typewriter, they began writing original stories together. – Charles J. Shields
I’ve been religiously reading the O. Henry Prize anthologies every year since college, when I first began trying to write stories. Many of the authors whose work I cherish the most were people I first learned about through The O. Henry Prize Stories – and then I’d go search for their books. – Molly Antopol
