Pastoral Resources

The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book.

I started reading when I was about three, a little over three.

From reading over the notes for each session it was apparent that there had been improvement by more or less regular steps from almost complete terror at sight of the rabbit to a completely positive response with no signs of disturbance.

I've always loved to read. But sometimes I go for a year without reading, because I forget to.

One trouble with developing speed reading skills is that by the time you realize a book is boring you've already finished it.

Reading was a big thing, yes. Books were a big thing. But the things that stick out were the newspapers.

Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. The English reading public explains the reason why.

The demand that I make of my reader is that he should devote his whole Life to reading my works.

I have always loved the process of making the music, reading the letters from the fans who get married to my music, have children to my music and play my music at their funerals.

I even smoke in bed. Imagine smoking a cigar in bed, reading a book. Next to your bed, there's a cigar table with a special cigar ashtray, and your wife is reading a book on how to save the environment.

From the time I was a little boy I found myself reading history when I had a choice. I read a lot of things, but history had a special appeal for me.

My writing is a combination of three elements. The first is travel: not travel like a tourist, but travel as exploration. The second is reading literature on the subject. The third is reflection.

I like the storytelling and reading the letters, the long-distance dedications.

I like the storytelling and reading the letters, the long-distance dedications. Anytime in radio that you can reach somebody on an emotional level, you're really connecting.

One way of reading my life is that I have been in constant search for a father.

You didn't hear the angels singing. It was brought down to Mother Earth, which is where it should be. And that led me to a lot of other reading.

Never be entirely idle; but either be reading, or writing, or praying or meditating or endeavoring something for the public good.

My mother is an actress, and she used to drag me from theater to theater and reading to reading.

To teach a child an instrument without first giving him preparatory training and without developing singing, reading and dictating to the highest level along with the playing is to build upon sand.

I have been reading Stephen King since CARRIE and hope to read him for many years to come.