Read Quotes
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People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.
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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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One of the marks of an educated man today is to know what not to read--what not to see or what not to listen to.
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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 am always surprised people are surprised that people haven't read things.
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I don't read a lot of books.
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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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In fact, I don't read newspapers any longer.
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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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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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The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.
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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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Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.
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Men must read for amusement as well as for knowledge.
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I often don't read reviews.
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My mother taught me to read.
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Even though I hadn't read a word of it, I grew up hating 'Moby-Dick.'
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Read, read, read, read and then read some more.
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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'd just turned 50, weighed 285, and my doctor had read me the riot act about my health.
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Normally when I read, I don't like music playing.
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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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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.
