She was widely read enough to appreciate my literary wit but not so widely read that she knew my sources. I like that in a woman.
I read everyday, because reading takes me away, away to a place where nothing is impossible.
I love staring at my books for hours just trying to decide which book to read next. Doing that is almost as fun as actually reading them.
I read over a hundred books a year and have done so since I was fifteen years old, and every book I've read has taught me something.
First step is to read and write but the major Education start when we are able to translate and tranform on everything we reads, get contact and spoken of.
Adam Smith is misread as being amoral precisely because people don't read his first book, because they don't read 'The Theory of Moral Sentiments.'
What can we see, read, acquire, but ourselves. Take the book, my friend, and read your eyes out, you will never find there what I find.
I got to read some writings by serial killers, and they got inside my head. They were quite disturbing. I read disturbing stuff about that very detached way of manipulating people to do things.
Some people buy books not to read but to dream, the moment 2-3 sentences read and lost in imagination. Take a paper and begin writing.....
At a certain point, you try to avoid reading feedback or blogs because there's always the risk of reading some sort of negative stuff that can be hard to hear.
There's only one common element that united every writer I've admired... they're all incredibly well-read.
There are mystically in our faces certain characters which carry in them the motto of our souls, wherein he that cannot read A, B, C may read our natures.
If I make you read, then I'll keep quiet. If I make you think, then I'll keep reading. If I make you smile, then I'll keep writing.
I read anything that’s going to be interesting. But you don’t know what it is until you’ve read it. Somewhere in a book on the history of false teeth there’ll be the making of a novel.
Reading's not a luxury, art's not a luxury. It's about your soul, and it's about yourself. And if reading is a luxury, being human is a luxury
It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else.
I also read modern novels - I have just had to read 60 as I am one of the judges for the Orange Fiction Prize.
I don't pretend that I can read minds. I don't believe anybody can read minds. In other words, I don't believe in psychics.
I write in a journal first, briefly. Then read something I've read many times before, for about half an hour, then rework what I wrote the day before.
I am a passionate reader. New interested books keep adding on my reading list. My wildest dream is to complete reading all the books.
I don’t believe one reads to escape reality. A person reads to confirm a reality he knows is there, but which he has not experienced.
