There's not a day that I don't work on vocals, have vocal coaches, go to acting classes, read books.
Read the Bible. Work hard and honestly. And don't complain.
Poe was a student of many things, and among those things he read and referred to in his work was the Bible.
The trouble with the performance poets is that they don't seem to have read anything. So there is not a real sense of the poetic tradition in their work.
I just need to sit, think, write and read.
Reading to small children is a specialty.
All readers have reading in common.
No book, however good, can survive a hostile reading.
Men ought to read the Bible and hear God speak.
I grew up in a very religious family. I could read the Qu'ran easily at the age of five.
I was reading about an age pill that has been developed which they claim will make you live longer. That is not for me.
From age 16, I lived and breathed wine. I read every magazine and book about wine.
What I was reading was already part of my psyche, but finally someone else was saying it's okay to walk alone.
I feel less alone when I read the books of Ratzinger.
All alone in a committee room of the Senate Office Building in Washington, I was reading the dry typewritten pages in an unpublished report of an almost forgotten congressional committee hearing.
Books are in no hurry. An act of creation is in no hurry; it reads us, it privileges us infinitely. The notion that it is the occasion for our cleverness fills me with baffled bitterness and anger.
I read your diary. I KNOW.
Who wants a library full of books you've already read?
I shall not be lonely. No one who reads is ever that.
I shall remain on Mars and read a book.
Reading gives liberty to your mind.
