I think as a species we're not designed to be able to think more than one year into the future - if that. Even trying to imagine one year from now makes most people feel like they've been given a huge boring chunk of homework that's too hard to do.

You wait for fate to bring about the changes in life which you should be bringing about by yourself.

Whatever happened to books? Suddenly everybody's talking about these 100-hour movies called 'Breaking Bad'. People are talking about TV the same way they used to talk about novels back in the 1980s. I like to think I hang out with some pretty smart people, but all they talk about is 'Breaking Bad.'

When Donald Duck traded his wings for arms, was he trading up or trading down?

TV didn't kill radio, it just added something new to the mix.

It's difficult to speak with beautiful people. No matter how hard you try to pretend otherwise, you still want them to like you.

I didn't want to be a writer, but I became one. And now I have many readers, in many countries. I think that's a miracle. So I think I have to be humble regarding this ability. I'm proud of it and I enjoy it, and it is strange to say it this way, but I respect it.

Most of my reading is rereading.

Only a generation of readers will spawn a generation of writers.

I read part of it all the way through.

He read the classics, the French and the German among others, but primarily the Russian, which enchanted him with their heavy patience.

And all you can do is just read," she said. She raised her voice an screamed, "You just read and read and read!" Then she threw herself down on the table and wept.

I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.

I'm going to be dead before I read the books I'm going to read.

Time is never wasted if you remember to bring along something to read.

But what would be our readers’ reaction if we simply refused to get to the bottom of that question?

He that is to govern a whole Nation, must read in himselfe, not this, or that particular man; but Man-kind;

Back at his chair he cannot remember what he was reading. He feels the books beside him to find the one that is warm.

He that loves reading has everything within his reach.

Reading, his therapist had suggested, had likely been his first drug.

Everyone in the South has no time for reading because they are all too busy writing.

I never know what I think about something until I read what I've written on it.

There his chief enterprises are reading and doing nothing.

Reading is not optional.