And out of a desire essentially to imitate what I was reading, I began to write, like a clever monkey.
I read Nietzsche when I was a teenager and then I went back to reading him when I was in my thirties, and his voice spoke directly to me. Nietzsche is such a superb literary artist.
The best way for women to acquire knowledge is from conversation with a father, a brother, or a friend, in the way of family intercourse and easy conversation, and by such a course of reading as they may recommend.
I read that heavy drinking is bad for your health. I decided I better stop reading.
Reading is a majority skill but a minority art. Yet nothing can replace the exact, complicated, subtle communion between absent author and entranced, present reader.
Reading is a majority skill but a minority art.
Reading and life are not separate but symbiotic. And for this serious task of imaginative discovery and self-discovery, there is and remains one perfect symbol: the printed book.
I have an intimate relationship with books. After all, I take them with me into the bathtub-not an invitation I offer lightly.
You only have to read the lines of scribbly black and everything shines.
When I realized I was having trouble reading, I was too embarrassed to ask for help. Some teachers believed in me, but I just wasn’t focused on school – I was into the music and trying to please my dad.
The reading of books, what is it but conversing with the wisest men of all ages and all countries.
You can’t know what a book is about until the very end. This is true of a book we’re reading or writing.
I used to live a very social life and never spend much solitary time looking at birds or reading.
The library was open for one hour after school let out. I hid there, looking at art books and reading poetry.
Reading is a key feature in the life of every single successful person I have ever met.
It is not the reading of many books which is necessary to make a man wise or good; but well reading of a few.
It is not the reading of many books which is necessary to make a man wise or good, but the well-reading of a few, could he be sure to have the best. And it is not possible to read over many on the same subject without a great deal of loss of precious time.
We are raised to honor all the wrong explorers and discoverers thieves planting flags, murderers carrying crosses. Let us at last praise the colonizers of dreams.
I keep reading that I’m cold. But I’m not, I’m shy. And I play a lot of women of fire and sexuality like an animal – so I’m cold on one side and fiery on the other.
It’s gratifying that it does; I love to give readings.