Read Quotes
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The only people who still read poetry are poets, and they mostly read their own.
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I feel free and strong. If I were not a reader of books I could not feel this way. Whatever may happen to me, thank God that I can read, that I have truly touched the minds of other men.
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I'm pragmatic. I like efficiency. I want to read what's in front of me and not have my hands tied.
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I would say, number one, don't worry about getting published. Just write. Number two, just write. Three is make sure you read.
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The difference between people who can read and write and those who can't is just absolutely astronomical.
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Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.
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My wife read Narc as well and was really into it.
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Read, think well of mankind, go to our libraries and rejoice.
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I like to read books. I like to listen to music.
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I'm not well read.
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If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can warm me, I know that is poetry. If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. These are the only ways I know it. Is there any other way?
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I don't generally read a lot of fiction.
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Read, read, read. That's all I can say.
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One good reason for writing novels based on your life is that you have something to read in old age when you've forgotten what happened.
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Clear, and compassionate, this collection illuminates the problems and opportunities that flowed from Christchurch after the quakes, and interrogates the manmade disaster that followed. Everyone should read this book.
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You know how children are, sometimes they love you by cuddling you, other times by trying to remake you from the start, reinvent you, as if they thought you were badly brought up and they had to teach you how to get on in the world, what music to listen to, what books to read, what films to see, the words you should use and those you shouldn’t because they’re old now, no one says that anymore.
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My thing has always been, sit down with me for an hour and base your judgments off that. That's all I ask. Don't go by what you read in the paper or hear in the streets.
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Fine natures are like fine poems; a glance at the first two lines suffices for a guess into the beauty that waits you if you read on.
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In my position you have to read when you want to write and to talk when you would like to read.
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I would stand there and read them. Well, not read them; I would look at them.
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Read to live, not live to read.
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I didn't read reviews earlier in my career, but I read them now as I'm older. I read them all.
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Scared to read my paper, can't look at TV.
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Attention spans are changing. It's very noticeable. I am very aware that the kind of books I read in my childhood kids now won't be able to read. I was reading Kipling and PG Wodehouse and Shakespeare at the age of 11. The kind of description and detail I read I would not put in my books. I don't know how much you can fight that because you want children to read. So I pack in excitement and plot and illustrations and have a cliffhanger every chapter. Charles Dickens was doing cliffhangers way back when. But even with all the excitement you have to make children care about the characters.
