I am only conscious of any satisfaction in Scientific Reading or thinking when it rounds off into a poetical generality and vagueness.Wilfred Owen

I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.V. S. Naipaul

I bear solemn witness to the fact that NATO heads of state and of government meet only to go through the tedious motions of reading speeches, drafted by others, with the principal objective of not rocking the boat.Pierre Trudeau

I began reading science fiction before I was 12 and started writing science fiction around the same time.Octavia Butler

I believe that writing is derivative. I think good writing comes from good reading.Charles Kuralt

I cannot live without books. Thomas Jefferson

I can't talk about foreign policy like anyone who's spent their life reading and learning foreign policy. But as a citizen in a democracy, it's very important that I participate in that.Ron Silver

I can't tell you exactly how I found it. It was just a process of writing a lot of stories and reading a lot of stories that I admired and just working and working until the sentences sounded right and I was satisfied with them.Jhumpa Lahiri

I certainly gained a lot by reading about Shanghai.Ralph Fiennes

I divide all readers into two classes: Those who read to remember and those who read to forget.     William Phelps

I do believe that reading can help you understand what you're writing and see what others are doing. But sometimes the desire for more information can act as an inhibitor.Manuel Puig

I don't particularly dislike any kind of person that might be reading my stuff. They like it and that's cool, but I don't do the work for any kind of group in particular, except for hobos, who just plain kick ass and light up my life.Jhonen Vasquez

I don't think anyone really is interested in reading about my emotional state. It's not even interesting to me. Larry David