Read Quotes
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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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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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I often don't read reviews.
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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 read comics and stuff. I buy a lot of comics, a lot of films and boxsets.
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Anyone should be able to read comics.
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Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.
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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'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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Read, read, read, read and then read some more.
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In fact, I don't read newspapers any longer.
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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 never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.
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I learned to interpret the ancient pictograph codices and read Nahuatl, the Aztec language.
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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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Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.
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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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Men must read for amusement as well as for knowledge.
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I'd read at a much higher-than-average grade level since, well, grade school.
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The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.
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You know if you pick up a beach read, you're excused from the problems in your own life and safe in a world with conflicts you understand, and you know you will get a happy ending.
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I don't read newspapers, and I've said I don't watch the news. I love books, but I don't read much. What I do is I get people to read to me, and I put the stories in my head.
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I only know what I read in the papers.
