To see him act is like reading Shakespeare by flashes of lightning.
She read Dickens in the same spirit she would have eloped with him.
Indeed, learning to write may be part of learning to read. For all I know, writing comes out of a superior devotion to reading.
Both reading and writing are experiences – lifelong – in the course of which we who encounter words used in certain ways are persuaded by them to be brought mind and heart within the presence, the power, of the imagination.
When I read, I hear what’s on the page. I don’t know whose voice it is, but some voice is reading to me, and when I write my own stories, I hear it, too.
I’m a great reader that never has time to read.
My mother read secondarily for information; she sank as a hedonist into novels. She read Dickens in the spirit in which she would have eloped with him.
Reading Chekhov was just like the angels singing to me.
The Only way to do all the things you’d like to do is to read.
I just finished reading the Koran, and there’s nothing in there I didn’t hear in Sunday school.
If Brideshead Revisited is not a great book, it’s so like a great book that many of us, at least while reading it, find it hard to tell the difference.
Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking.
When you sell a man a book, you don’t sell him 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue – you sell him a whole new life.
If I’m writing a story and you’re reading it, or vice versa, you took time out of your day to pick up my book. I think the one thing that will kill that relationship is if you feel me condescending to you in the process.
It was just enough to sit there without words.
At the State of the Union address last night, President Obama made history by using the words transgender, lesbian, and bisexual in that speech. It was the part of the speech where he was just reading Craigslist personals.
Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings.
I fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom.
I have a rule that I don’t read my press, but then somebody in the crew will be reading it and of course it’s right there, so what do you think I do?
The more you read, the more you calm down.