Bore children, and they stop reading. There’s no room for self-indulgence or showing off or setting the scene.
I was well traveled, and I created this illusion of literacy through reading and writing. I wrote a book of short stories.
I’ve got an image of me at the bottom of my garden sitting under my silver birch tree reading, while everyone else had gone somewhere exotic.
For me, reading was always the great escape without getting your fingers burnt.
I hated to read. My mother could not get me to read. I’m going through the same thing with my daughter now. I love to read now, but I don’t remember reading.
The art of reading is to skip judiciously.
If there was no Bible, it would be no matter whether you could read or not. Reading other books would do you no good.
Since my adaptation of Ian McEwan’s ‘Atonement,’ I get sent a lot of novels that people think will work as movies. So every now and then I make a point of sitting down and reading a couple of them.
I find reading screenplays difficult, as they’re only a roadmap for what a movie might end up being.
Adverbs is a book about love, and I thought that was pretty cheerful, but people who are reading it now are telling me that it’s actually quite dark.
When you start reading nonfiction books about piracy, you realize that it’s actually just a history of desperate people.
If you enjoy books with happy endings than you are better off reading some other book.
What you don’t read is often as important as what you do read.
It is often said that reading is a gift, but to my mind that is an insufficient description, for the size of the gift of reading is so vast that it is difficult to see what is outside its wrapping.
A good library will never be too neat, or too dusty, because somebody will always be in it, taking books off the shelves and staying up late reading them.
Every time you enter a library you might say to yourself, “The world is quiet here,” as a sort of pledge proclaiming reading to be the greater good.
Sometime during your life – in fact, very soon – you may find yourself reading a book, and you may notice that a book’s first sentence can often tell you what sort of story your book contains.
There are few sights sadder than a ruined book.
I go to bed early and rise late and feel as if I have hardly slept, probably because I have been reading almost the entire time.
Grinning is something you do when you are entertained in some way, such as reading a good book or watching someone you don’t care for spill orange soda all over themselves.