Reading Quotes
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[To write poems] I think it's important to do research, and research mostly is going to come from books, so all of your reading is potentially helpful to your poetry.
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I think psychologically Margaret Thatcher is really worth studying. I am reading Charles Moore's biography of her, and he has gotten us right there with a woman who lived the unexamined life, and lived it deliberately, and who has contempt for history, even her own.
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All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they really happened and after you are finished reading one you feel that it all happened to you and after which it all belongs to you.
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I think, for some children, your skills don't lie in written words. A lot of school is based around written words and how good you are at spelling or reading. From a young age, if you're told you can't spell or read very well, you're made to feel a bit stupid.
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I was on my own at Wellesley, surrounded by a lot of young women who were motivated and intellectually curious. I started to read because I was required to do so for class, but I soon found myself enjoying the seclusion of the library. I came to see reading as an important way to learn about people, including myself.
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I grew up with my uncle's comic books at my grandma's house, so I've always loved my comic book reading.
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The only palliative is to keep the clean sea breeze of the centuries blowing through our minds, and this can be done only by reading old books.
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It's not all the time, but you get a sense when you're reading something that it's no longer about boxing or the performance. It's personal.
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I delay typing as long as possible. When I read a poem in longhand I'm hearing it, when in typescript I'm reading it. A poem can appear finished just because of the cleanness of the typescript.
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Surfing and trail running chill me out. I like reading, too. And playing my guitar - I wish I were better.
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Popular culture as a whole is popular, but in today's fragmented market it's a jostle of competing unpopular popular cultures. As the critic Stanley Crouch likes to say, if you make a movie and 10 million people go see it, you'll gross $100 million - and 96 per cent of the population won't have to be involved. That alone should caution anyone about reading too much into individual examples of popular culture.
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Years ago I read an interview with Paula Fox in which she said that in writing, truth is just as important as story. Reading that interview was the first time I really understood that there's no point in trying to impress people with my cleverness when I can just try to write honestly about what matters most to me.
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Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me From mine own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom.
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I never grew up reading or fantasizing about fairy tales. I was always too busy, like, outside being a kid.
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We're able to use certain techniques to get people to behave in certain ways. We're able to use certain techniques to make it look like we're reading minds, even though we're not.
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Reading 'Search Sweet Country' is like reading a dream, and indeed, at times, it feels like the magical landscapes of writers like the Nigerian Ben Okri or the Mozambican Mia Couto.
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I can't think of too many things as exciting as reading a book for the first time!
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'To Kill A Mockingbird' is one of my favourite novels, my mum brought me up reading it, and it never fails to move me.
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Everyone in the South has no time for reading because they are all too busy writing.
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Sometimes when I'm reading a script, I can't quite believe that this is going on television alongside cereal commercials.
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I was very surprised to get a reading for 'Arrested Development' because it really seemed to be the opposite of that which I was known for doing.
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Who I love reading is Jordan Mechner, who wrote 'Prince of Persia.' He put all his journals while he was writing 'Prince of Persia' online.
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I went into this job to do plays, but that's here for 10 weeks, and the rest of the year I do a lot of other things-the administrative work of planning, reading plays.
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Thank you for sending me a copy of your book - I'll waste no time reading it.
