Ted Williams is one of the best hitters ever to play the game, and I didn't get a chance to see him play, so all I could do was read books and look at pictures.
David Burnett was the son of Martha Foley, who edited the Best American Short Stories series. She hired me to work with David and her to read stories for the anthology.
And the upside to being confined to home was that it gave me plenty of time to continue reading.
Books are like truth serum-- if you don't read, you can't figure out what's real.
I do not have more information after reading a poem; I have more experience.
One cannot read a novel without ascribing to the heroine the traits of the one we love.
I tend to forget what I'm doing will ever be read while I'm writing it, and just get on with the task at hand.
We do not talk - we bludgeon one another with facts and theories gleaned from cursory readings of newspapers, magazines and digests.
But an experienced reader is also a self-aware and critical reader. I can't remember ever reading a story without judging it.
Universal literacy was a 20th-century goal. Before then, reading and writing were skills largely confined to a small, highly educated class of professional people.
It’s not the art, it’s the heart. What [God] reads during our worship is the inner attitude. Worship is spiritual; it’s organic; it’s relational.
I had still never read one of the Bond books when the movie Dr. No came out.
I worked probably 25 years by myself, just writing and working, not trying to publish much, not giving readings.
I definitely read a lot of books on the psychology and mythology behind fairy tales because I think that's really fascinating and there's a lot to draw on there.
So, whenever I'm writing, I'm writing in the presence of all the other books I've read and I think we all are.
I don't think I've ever read an old book through from start to finish. Not after more than six months after writing it, that is.
As an undergraduate, I did maths and physics. That doesn't make me a scientist. So I try to read and understand and talk to scientists.
Nobody reads the disclosures that roll down your computer screen. You click 'I agree' but you don't know what you're agreeing to.
As a child, because manga was always around and I was reading it, I naturally thought, 'Hey, I'd like to draw manga - I'd like to be a manga author!'
If you start believing all that press about you, you're in trouble. I don't even read my reviews.
The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library,'The medicines of the soul.
