Pastoral Resources

It is to be deeply regretted that the clergymen would oppose an effort to teach the people the Bible truths; nevertheless, we find much opposition everywhere, and many clergymen will attempt to prevent the people from reading what is here written.

I finally decided one day, reading science fiction magazines of the time, I could do at least as well as some of these people are doing. So I finally made a serious effort.

It got so bad that by the time I was graduated, the only reading I did was in order to get the grade and the only writing I did was in order to get the grade.

Writing a book for me, I expect, is very similar to the experience of reading the book for my readers.

I think the reason I don't read is because, when I'm reading, I feel like I'm missing out on something else. You know, What are my friends doing? Where's my girlfriend?

I had no books at home. I started to frequent a public library in Lisbon. It was there, with no help except curiosity and the will to learn, that my taste for reading developed and was refined.

The reader has to be creative when he's reading. He has to try to make the thing alive. A good reader has to do a certain amount of work when he is reading.

Now that I'm taking some time off from school, I've been reading a lot to make sure I don't forget everything. It's mostly classics and nonfiction accounts from actors, directors and writers from the '40s and '50s.

Be able to recognize when you're reading or hearing material biased to your own side.

Spending waiting moments doing crossword puzzles or reading a book you brought yourself.

The art of reading between the lines is as old as manipulated information.

Reading is a discount ticket to everywhere.

There are two types of encryption: one that will prevent your sister from reading your diary and one that will prevent your government.

I've never know any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.

Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own.

Reading is a means of thinking with another person's mind; it forces you to stretch your own.

Language is the soul of intellect, and reading is the essential process by which that intellect is cultivated beyond the commonplace experiences of everyday life.

Don't ask who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading all my life.

I try to deal with my serious reading before work.

I enjoyed reading all the classic authors like Isaac Asimov and Bradbury.