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I grew up without a television. It meant that I read lots of books and entertained myself.

I always used to look at books and wonder how anybody could come up with so many words. But my divorce and then falling in love with somebody else has released in me an ability to write in other ways apart from songs.

Roger Waters

Mostly, I was only interested in television as a kid, and the majority of reading material I collected was an adjunct to that central concern, comic books and magazines included.

I think the kind of unexpected I really love is when you open books and the actual way of writing is different and interesting. Like reading Virginia Woolf for the first time or Lawrence Durrell for the first time.

I enjoy adapting my own work, or anybody's work. I like to adapt books.

Joseph Wambaugh

Work

Books

The other thing is this industry has decided it only has one market. Unlike any other industry in the world, unlike film or books or sports even, this industry has decided it has only one market and that's 14 year old boys.

A harsh reality of newspaper editing is that the deadlines don't allow for the polish that you expect in books or even magazines.

Bill Walsh

Books

Reality

I read numerous books - loads in fact - and, as I always do when recording a historical project, immersed myself into the subject matter. I spent many hours at Henry's old homes, such as Hampton Court, and visiting the Tower of London. I read no other books during that period.

I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.

Voltaire

Books

Evil

The multitude of books is making us ignorant.

Voltaire

Books

The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.

Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either.

That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers.

Gore Vidal