The less we know the more we suspect.
I’ve been changed watching films or reading books or hearing music, and that helps you to live your life.
Good as it is to inherit a library, it is better to collect one.
When I was 20, political music was the uncoolest thing on earth. But when Bush got elected, that was the first time I started actually reading the news.
I wish I was making shoes instead of reading or watching movies, which is what I do in my free time.
The most important habit is solitude, quiet time. People who enter their day by taking 45 minutes or an hour for themselves – meditation, prayer, inspirational reading, taking a walk – before they go for it in the real world do best.
The more you do it, the more you learn to concentrate, as a child does, incredibly intensively and then you sort of have to relax. I remember the first film I did, the lead actor would in between scenes be reading a newspaper or sleeping and I’d think, ‘How can you do that?’
Reading has given me more satisfaction than really anything else.
Once in a while you start having second thoughts, then you read a letter from someone that lifts your spirits so much – it really makes a huge difference. I love reading them.
We read, frequently if not unknowingly, in search of a mind more original than our own.
People cannot stand the saddest truth I know about the very nature of reading and writing imaginative literature, which is that poetry does not teach us how to talk to other people: it teaches us how to talk to ourselves. What I.
Read deeply, not to believe, not to accept, not to contradict, but to learn to share in that one nature that writes and reads.
How to read “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone”? Why, very quickly, to begin with, and perhaps also to make an end. Why read it? Presumably, if you cannot be persuaded to read anything better, Rowling will have to do.
Real reading is a lonely activity.
Criticism starts – it has to start – with a real passion for reading. It can come in adolescence, even in your twenties, but you must fall in love with poems.
The very best of all Merwin: I have been reading William since 1952, and always with joy.
We read not only because we cannot know enough people, but because friendship is so vulnerable, so likely to diminish or disappear, overcome by space, time, imperfect sympathies, and all the sorrows of familial and passional life.
Reading well makes children more interesting both to themselves and others, a process in which they will develop a sense of being separate and distinct selves.
In the finest critics one hears the full cry of the human. They tell one why it matters to read.
Last I looked – and I’m not a candidate – but last time I checked reading about the Constitution, the Electoral College has nothing to do with parties, has absolutely nothing to do with parties. It’s most states are winners take all.