Pastoral Resources

I'm in favor of any technology that makes my work available to the reading public at a reasonable price.

My reading of history convinces me that most bad government has grown out of too much government.

I'd like to encourage people to please keep reading-and most importantly, to please keep trying new writers. The only way we can bring fresh new material into the field is if people go out and buy it.

I've always been that way. I'm not very good at reading music but I'm pretty quick at picking things up.

The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.

No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting. She will not want new fashions nor regret the loss of expensive diversions or variety of company if she can be amused with an author in her closet.

I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything.

Well, I've been reading a lot about the fifty years since the Second World War, about Western foreign policy and all that. I try not to let it get to me, but sometimes I just think that there's no hope.

When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading.

I suppose if I was to have to pick a few, Ursula LeGuin would have to top the list. It was while reading her work that I decided I wanted to be an author.

When I'm not at the keyboard, I'm generally reading, practicing tai chi or middle eastern dance, or cooking.

It's really unfair to working women in America who read celebrity news and think, 'Why can't I lose weight when I've had a baby?' Well, everyone you're reading about has money for a trainer and a chef. That doesn't make it realistic.

I'm getting ready to write a piece now, and it's been six months thinking about it, changing the instrumentation, changing the name, doing more reading.