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And I believe that public broadcasting has an important trust with the American people, it's an intimate medium of television, and that we can do reading and language development for young children without getting into human sexuality.

As a child, I read science fiction, but from the very beginnings of my reading for pleasure, I read a lot of non-fictional history, particularly historical biography.

Reading is to the mind what exercising is to the body.

Hard writing makes easy reading.

A woman reading Playboy feels a little like a Jew reading a Nazi manual.

People who have been made to suffer by certain things cannot be reminded of them without a horror which paralyses every other pleasure, even that to be found in reading a story.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.