“I have learned to read the papers calmly and not to hate the fools I read about.”

“Reading was a joy, a desperately needed escape -- I didn't read to learn, I was reading to read.”

“I think you can read a dozen different books and not learn a single thing about writing. Good writers don't read, they study books. They pick the plots apart and the sentences apart. And part of studying is copying. Reading is great and every writer should read, but reading alone isn't enough to learn what you need to learn...”

“I hate knowing about illness. Whenever I read a medical book, I immediately start to get all the symptoms.”

“Every thought I have is colored by what I learned by what I learned from reading Ray Bradbury.”

“The young open the paper to forget about life by reading the funny strips. The old do it to forget about death by reading other people's obits. My advice: don't open the paper and go on with your life.”