In reading we must become creators.
I always read. You know how sharks have to keep swimming or they die? I’m like that. If I stop reading, I die.
Just handle the books gently and you’ll get along fine.
It wasn’t even a good note. ‘If you are reading this I am probably dead.’ What sort of a note is that?
Reading is professionally important for me to keep tuned in to what’s being written in my genre, let’s not lie. But that’s not the reason I read. I read for my own emotional and mental health. If I stopped reading, I’d probably just die.
I slipped the book into my pocket. I assure you to leave off reading was like tearing myself away from the shelter of an old and solid friendship.
Stephen King in many respects is a wonderful writer. He has made a contribution. People in the future will be able to pick up Stephen King’s books and learn a lot about who we were by reading those books.
If you enjoy reading something, read it.
Reading dreams. That’s what started her walking down the road. Every day she’d walk a little further: a mile, and come home. Two miles, and come home. One day she just kept on.
Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.
Cruel of heart, lay down my song. Your reading eyes have done me wrong. Not for you was the pen bitten, And the mind wrung, and the song written.
War makes good history but peace is poor reading.
A novel is an impression, not an argument; and there the matter must rest.
I am a person who dreads any kind of public exposure and any kind of public event. I spend all day, if I have to do a reading, preparing.
People who are busy doing things – as opposed to people who are busy sitting around, like me, reading and having coffee in coffee shops -don’t have opportunities to kind of collect and organize their experiences and make sense of them.
A book, I was taught long ago in English class, is a living and breathing document that grows richer with each new reading.
Re-reading is much underrated. I’ve read The Spy Who Came in from the Cold once every five years since I was 15. I only started to understand it the third time.
Literature, like anything else, can become a wearisome business if you make a lifetime specialty of it. A healthy, wholesome man would no more spend his entire life reading great books than he would packing cookies for Nabisco.
The consolation of reading biography: Most great men have led lives even more miserable than our own.
Most of the literary classics are worth reading, if you’ve nothing better to do.