Reading to children at night, responding to their smiles with a smile, returning their vocalizations with one of your own, touching them, holding them – all of these further a child’s brain development and future potential, even in the earliest months.
For the traditional fantasies, a lot more of my research comes from reading rather than doing. I like my worlds to feel real, so I do a lot of world building research.
Finding people who get enormous pleasure from reading books is a more and more unusual experience, and so writers just so much want to be heard.
In fact, I think for a lot of writers, it’s so hard to be read.
When I’m not writing or reading, I’m thinking about both.
My craziest on-set story comes from during the Goonies, when I came up to Spielberg and said that I wanted to climb the walls of the tunnels and that it represented my mother’s womb, for some odd reason. I was reading Stanislawski at the time and Spielberg’s response was “Why don’t you just act.”
Reading is my favourite occupation, when I have leisure for it and books to read.
I suppose what one wants really is ideal company and books are ideal company.
Reading is important – read between the lines. Don’t swallow everything.
Books are meat and medicine and flame and flight and flower steel, stitch, cloud and clout, and drumbeats on the air.
Write your own book instead of reading someone else’s book about success.
Reading is my greatest luxury.
The importance and influence of books on me has been cumulative: the result of hearing and reading lots of stories about interesting people and places.
Much of my reading time over the last decade and a half has been spent reading aloud to my children. Those children’s bedtime rituals of supper, bath, stories, and sleep have been a staple of my life and some of the best, most special times I can remember.
It should be possible to exist with only a short shelf of books, to read and give away. After all – we may not open a book, once read, for ten years or more. But the act of reading has made it part of us – to relinquish it would be to lose an extension of our being.
I grew up reading Shakespeare and Mark Twain.
Every person who has a reading with me has an audiotape.
The more I like a book, the more slowly I read. this spontaneous talking back to a book is one of the things that makes reading so valuable.
The more I like a book, the more reluctant I am to turn the page. Lovers, even book lovers, tend to cling. No one-night stands or “reads” for them.
When, after having read a work, loftier thoughts arise in your mind and noble and heartfelt feelings animate you, do not look for any other rule to judge it by; it is fine and written in a masterly manner.