This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read.
I have personally seen statements that were longer than some books I have read.
A scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not every one that can read in it.
It is better to be able neither to read nor write than to be able to do nothing else.
I wanted to connect a modern story with a myth that I had read.
We need to tell kids flat out: reading is not optional.
I know of no sentence that can induce such immediate and brazen lying as the one that begins, 'Have you read - .'
All I know is just what I read in the papers, and that's an alibi for my ignorance.
I like to read the papers. I make my living from football, and I like to know what's going on.
What is the Geneva Convention on wars! I have never read it.
I confess that reading proofs is a pleasure. It stimulates and inspires me.
Novelists are always resisting autobiographical readings of their work, because they know how false those can be.
For a lot of kids, reading is not magical. It's really hard work.
When I am rehearsing for a play, I try to read nothing that might distract my concentration from the work in progress.
I'm famously secretive about my work. Nobody reads my books till they're finished.
Anyone who reads my work will see that there are often difficult relationships between fathers and sons.
There is nothing more distressing or tiresome than a writer standing in front of an audience and reading his work.
Sure, women sportswriters look when they're in the clubhouse. Read their stories. How else do you explain a capital letter in the middle of a word?
We have to get women's stories out there so a guy will read it, laugh, and think, 'I'm not laughing at a chick story but a story.'
Literary fiction is kept alive by women. Women read more fiction, period.
Have you got something against faith?” “Have you got something against reason?
