Pastoral Resources

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

The Athanasian Creed is to me light and intelligible reading in comparison with much that now passes for science.

No one ever committed suicide while reading a good book, but many have tried while trying to write one.

The reading or non-reading a book will never keep down a single petticoat.

I'm writing a movie about Mozart going to New York in the '60s. I've been reading so many novels.

And I'm auditioning right now for a movie, and then I have a script that I'm reading right now for a horror film, and I'm meeting for a couple of television shows that I just had yesterday, and pretty much was offered one of them.

Farewell all relations and friends in Christ; farewell acquaintances and all earthly enjoyments; farewell reading and preaching, praying and believing, wanderings, reproaches, and sufferings.

The other thing that happened in 1883 was my reading of Thoreau's Walden.

It's like the code of living by yourself. People who are single know what I'm talking about. You eat standing up, reading the paper. Or you say to yourself, this isn't even cutting it, I'm taking a TV dinner and I'm getting in bed here.

Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms.

Reading about nature is fine, but if a person walks in the woods and listens carefully, he can learn more than what is in books, for they speak with the voice of God.

I am so sick of reading about another car bomb, another suicide bomber, another 10, 20, 30, 70, 100 people dead in a day, both Americans and Iraqis.

From reading too much, and sleeping too little, his brain dried up on him and he lost his judgment.

Political freedom is a political reading of the Bible.

The flood of print has turned reading into a process of gulping rather than savoring.

The reason is that for many years I have avoided reading anything whatsoever that approaches my own line of country, out of a somewhat fanatical desire to avoid the risk of unconscious imitation.

For we can affirm with a good conscience that we have, after reading the Holy Scripture, applied ourselves and yet daily apply ourselves to the extent that the grace of the Lord permits to inquiry into and investigation of the consensus of the true and purer antiquity.

Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various facets of them.

The mere brute pleasure of reading - the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.

The mere brute pleasure of reading the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.