“I became a writer because I love to read, yet I never get to unless I’m reviewing a book or doing research.”

Well. I don’t suppose you have to believe in ghosts to know that we are all haunted, all of us, by things we can see and feel and guess at, and many more things that we can’t.

I’ve found in the past that the more closely I identify with the heroine, the less completely she emerges as a person.

So from the first novel I’ve been learning techniques to distance myself from the characters so that they are not me and I don’t try to protect them in ways that aren’t good for the story.

How quickly a person in pain whom you can’t help becomes a reproach. And then, no doubt, a thorn.

If you’re going to spend two or three years immersed in a subject, you better be deeply interested in it, or it won’t be interesting to the reader.

I have the same fantasy every time I read a book I love, no matter who wrote it

Eventually I got the call for ‘Iron Man,’ and I read sides that had nothing to do with what I did in the movie, and I performed it once while no one was in the room

Imagine a place where not a single person has read a book that is truly about the character at its center.

Deeply consider that it is your duty and interest to read the Holy Scriptures.

Learning to read the Bible in the light of the times in which it was written is critical.

Berger poses many fascinating questions, including this one: What if companies had mission questions rather than mission statements? This is a book everyone ought to read – without question.

Don’t say God is silent when your Bible is closed. Open it and read it. God will speak.

Oprah tells women what to read, what to eat, what to think, what to do.