I’ve been to the Reading festival twice before-as a punter, though I stayed backstage in the hospitality tent!
That love is all there is, Is all we know of love.
There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry.
And I ride horses, swim, do a lot of reading, writing.
Reading, to most people, means an ashamed way of killing time disguised under a dignified name.
I can’t wait to do the normal things. Like just doing your own groceries. Looking for your own tomatoes. I just can’t wait to get up in the morning and look awful. I’m looking forward to getting bored.
Writing stories is my way of scratching that itch: my escape from the claustrophobia of individuality. It lets me, at least for a while, live more than one life, walk more than one path. Reading, of course, can do the same.
Has any man ever obtained inner harmony by simply reading about the experiences of others? Not since the world began has it ever happened. Each man must go through the fire himself.
I wish the English still possessed a shred of the old sense of humour which Puritanism, and dyspepsia, and newspaper reading, and tea-drinking have nearly extinguished.
If they don’t read, if they don’t love reading; if they don’t find themselves compulsively reading, I don’t think they’re really a writer.
There are distinct duties of a poet laureate. I plan a reading series at the Library of Congress and advise the librarian. The rest is how I want to promote poetry.
I think reading Shakespeare’s plays when I was young was extremely important. He had the ability to make utter strangers come alive.
Digital platforms are worthless without content. They’re shiny sacks with bells and whistles, but without content, they’re empty sacks. It is not about pixels versus print. It is not about how you’re reading. It is about what you’re reading.
I was reading through endless junk scripts that were being sent my way. Typically the roles were to play his wife or his girlfriend – leading roles for women were few and far between.
I enjoy reading biographies because I want to know about the people who messed up the world.
I am reading Jonson’s verses to the memory of Shakespeare; an insolent, sparing, and invidious panegyric...
Uncertain whose the narrowest span, – the clown unread, or half-read gentleman.
I love to read different books on completely different subjects at the same time. I cannot focus on one. I read a few pages of literature, then I jump to philosophy and at the same time I’m reading biographies of Mahler.
When I was young, I didn’t like to read. I would have much rather been outside doing something than been inside reading about it.
Let’s be reasonable and add an eighth day to the week that is devoted exclusively to reading.