Read Quotes
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Whenever I have tried to write for other people, that's when my writing has failed, when nobody wanted to read it or buy it. But it's only when I've been able to write a story that makes me excited, only then have other people wanted to read it.
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Every day, I read books on philosophy and science fiction and human consciousness.
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I am always surprised people are surprised that people haven't read things.
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I read Carver. Julio Cortazar. Amis's essays. Baldwin. Lorrie Moore. Capote. Saramago. Larkin. Wodehouse. Anything, anything at all, that doesn't sound like me.
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Writing is literally transformative. When we read, we are changed. When we write, we are changed. It's neurological. To me, this is a kind of magic.
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I also read modern novels - I have just had to read 60 as I am one of the judges for the Orange Fiction Prize.
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Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.
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True Faith’ ended up being a big song for us, no doubt about it. The title I got from a book I was reading at the time, James A. Michener’s Texas, which talked about Catholicism being the only ‘True Faith’. Rob liked that. Here’s a little-known fact: Barney and I were the only two Protestants at Factory; nearly all the rest were Catholics. Read into that what you will.
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In fact, I don't read newspapers any longer.
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I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.
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Men must read for amusement as well as for knowledge.
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For me, any book I'm writing is also a chance to get in and research and read and learn things that I maybe only knew a little bit about before.
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I often don't read reviews.
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Read, read, read, read and then read some more.
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Even though I hadn't read a word of it, I grew up hating 'Moby-Dick.'
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I've read everything Thomas Wolfe ever wrote; my brother and I memorized whole chapters of 'You Can't Go Home Again' and 'Look Homeward, Angel.'
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When I was 17 or 18 I wanted to become a wine expert, and my parents wouldn't let me drink. So I was devastated. All I could do was read, and I read and I read. And I'd read something like, you know, 'Subtle hints of cassis.'
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I read everything by Ian McEwan, he is so elegant. I love reading anything about Shakespeare, too. He is my first love. If I had a time machine, I would be hanging out with him.
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My mother taught me to read.
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The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.
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I learned to interpret the ancient pictograph codices and read Nahuatl, the Aztec language.
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Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.
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If you haven't read Alan Fletcher's The Art of Looking Sideways you should be arrested for calling yourself a Designer.
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I'd read at a much higher-than-average grade level since, well, grade school.
