I love that drag is political. For me, one of the reasons I started doing drag was reading about how in the past, drag performers were able to organize the queer community and move us forward.

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.

It's hard recommending books for kids, and a huge responsibility. If you get it wrong, they don't tell you they hate that particular book, they tell you they hate reading.

Young people often aren't in a position to write checks to charities. But there are two things they can do that are invaluable. One is volunteering, especially mentoring other young people with...

I will read anything by Laura Hillenbrand, Walter Isaacson, Barbara Kingsolver, John le Carre, John Grisham, Hilary Mantel, Toni Morrison, Anna Quindlen, and Alice Walker.

I've stopped reading about my books on the Internet because it's too hurtful.

I'm a sporadic reader. I have moments when I can't stop... then I kind of forget that I can read. But then I go, 'Oh God, yeah, books!'

I love books where you feel you're having a romance with the writer.

I was reading some books by Michel Houellebecq, and the first thing that comes to mind is that they're really funny, all the ways they describe the most depressing things.

I became a connoisseur of that nasty thud a manuscript makes when it comes through the letter box.

I'm a Virgo and I'm more - I don't want to say 'negative' - but I'm the girl who thinks no one's coming to my birthday party, no one's buying my clothes, no one's reading my book, no one's watching my...

You can never draw enough or read enough - reading about architecture, in other words.

My urge at Christmas time or Hanukkah - time or Kwanzaa - time is that people go to bookstores: that they walk around bookstores and look at the shelves. Go to look for authors that they've loved in...

Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but, most important, it finds homes for us everywhere.

Reading is not just an escape. It is access to a better way of life.

The only way to do all the things you'd like to do is to read

I do not mind sleepless nights to be involved in reading.

We human beings build houses because we're alive, but we write books because we're mortal. We live in groups because we're sociable, but we read because we know we're alone. Reading offers a kind of...

Rereading, we find a new book

Reading is your first line of defense against an empty head.

How can we read when people need our help? It's a luxury. A stupid luxury.

Reading is an addiction, much like living and breathing is an addiction.

Reading a great work of literature can truly be likened to having a conversation with a great mind.

She sewed as she read. For the Vicar considered that sewing was an occupation and that reading was not. He was silent as long as his daughter sewed and when she read he talked.

Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.

No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.

Books gnaw at me from around the edges of my life, demanding more time and attention. I am always left hungry.

I cannot live without reading.

Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought.

The true reader reads every work seriously in the sense that he reads it whole - wholeheartedly, makes himself as receptive as he can. But for that very reason he cannot possibly read every work...