Pastoral Resources

Research we've done seems to indicate that people who are on the Net like the idea that they don't have to leave what they are reading to go buy something.

We set up a beta site, a test site, with movie, music and book reviews. If you're reading them and you want to buy a book or a ticket for a movie that's reviewed on the site, you can do that without leaving our site.

Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate love of reading.

Good stories flow like honey. Bad stories stick in the craw. A bad story? One that cannot be absorbed on the first time of reading.

I tried reading Hilbert. Only his papers published in mathematical periodicals were available at the time. Anybody who has tried those knows they are very hard reading.

Reading computer manuals without the hardware is as frustrating as reading manuals without the software.

With twins, reading aloud to them was the only chance I could get to sit down. I read them picture books until they were reading on their own.

One rainy Sunday when I was in the third grade, I picked up a book to look at the pictures and discovered that even though I did not want to, I was reading. I have been a reader ever since.

Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school.

If I have a talent for making some fourth-grader who hates school and reading to hate it a little less, then I have to do the most with what I've been issued.

After the writer's death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.

Reading is an art form, and every man can be an artist.

I do finish reading a script and say, Why are they making it and what are they talking about? I like to try and be responsible in my choices in that way.

There are different rules for reading, for thinking, and for talking. Writing blends all three of them.

Promiscuity is like never reading past the first page. Monogamy is like reading the same book over and over.

While we are reading, we are all Don Quixote.

I get letters from readers who say that they have always hated reading, but somebody suggested one of my books, they actually finished the book and enjoyed it, and they're going on to read another book. I'm thrilled that they have figured out that reading is fun.

There are no taboos. Every topic is open, however shocking. It is the way that the topics are handled that's important, and that applies whether it is a 15-year-old who is reading your book or someone who is 55.

My head was always bubbling over with facts and it seems to me this had little to do with my paying close attention in school and more to do with my voracious and omnivorous reading habits.

They see us interacting with people, they see us doing serious interviews, they see us having fun, and when you're conversing with someone, you get a much clearer impression of who that person is than if they are just reading into a news piece.