I have to keep up with the scientific literature as part of my job, but increasingly I found myself reading things that weren't really relevant to my academic work, but were relevant to gardening.

And I tell ya, when I sit in that sound booth and started reading the script and starting to get into the character, man, it's an easy jump for me, because I understand what it's all about.

The storytelling gift is innate: one has it or one doesn't. But style is at least partly a learned thing: one refines it by looking and listening and reading and practice - by work.

The forbidden things were a great influence on my life. I was forbidden from reading A Catcher in the Rye.

I'm a good scholar when it comes to reading but a blotting kind of writer when you give me a pen.

Reading - the best state yet to keep absolute loneliness at bay.

A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted. You should live several lives while reading it.

I sent The World Well Lost to one editor who rejected it on sight, and then wrote a letter to every other editor in the field warning them against the story, and urging them to reject it on sight without reading it.

An hour or two spent in writing from dictation, another hour or two in reading aloud, a little geography and a little history and a little physics made the day pass busily.

Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody's piano playing in my living room has on the book I am reading.

I remember nearly having a fit of the giggles during the reading because dear Daniel was SO respectful and serious and I was finding the whole situation funny because I was speaking to his profile.

I still can't decide which is more fun - reading or writing.

I went through a period where I was really tired of seeing and reading about myself.

I've been reading horror since I was five years old.

When I decided to take writing seriously, I did a lot of reading and analyzing of the books I liked, and came up with what I thought were pretty sound plotting and structure basics.