Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads.
My definition of good literature is that which can be read by an educated reader, and reread with increased pleasure.
I certainly don't read coverage of me, I read what else is going on that I need to know about to do my job.
I fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom.
I'd read things, like people criticizing me. But no one likes to read stuff about that, and probably the main thing that was getting to me was me mum's illness.
Sometimes I read reviews, and without exception I will read critical essays that are sent to me. The critical essays are interesting on their own terms.
I'm a big fan of Elmore Leonard, and I've read Ian Rankin, Christopher Brookmyre and so on. But I'd never read a crime novel that made me feel emotional at the end.
My whole thing is, I collect what I know I want to read, and I have certain bookshelves in my bedroom that contain all the books I haven't read yet.
Said Opie Read to E.P. Roe, "How do you like Gaboriau?" "I like him very much indeed!" Said E.P. Roe to Opie Read.
I remember having to read 'The Old Man and the Sea,' and I didn't want to read it; I didn't want to like Ernest Hemingway. I was being a stubborn teenager.
We don’t read to observe the character from a distance. We read to become the character and experience the conflicts and rewards they are experiencing.
We live in a moment and a culture when reading is really endangered. There's simply no way to write well, though, if you're not reading well.
I've read a lot of bad books. I used to review books for a living, and when you're a reviewer you read tons of terrible books.
Read a lot. Read broadly... Tell stories to your friends, and pay attention to when they get bored... Write a lot.
Normally you read a screenplay - and I read a lot of them - and the characters don't feel like people. They feel like plot devices or cliches or stereotypes.
When you read a book, you create that tonal bandwidth. You set a tone for yourself, as you're reading it, in which everything exists within the world of your imagination.
I like reading a lot. Jeffrey Archer and Robert Ludlum are my favourite authors. I love making realistic cinema, so I read non-fiction more.
Vicki Vale: I'm reading your stuff. Alexander Knox: Well, I'm reading yours. Vicki Vale: Hi! I'm Vicki Vale.
If you go to Gettysburg and take the time, maybe take a tour, maybe just drive around, read some of the monuments, read some of the plaques, you will come away changed.
Generally, I read nonfiction. There's very little fiction that I enjoy enough to spend my time reading. I am generally a nonfiction guy.
In our fathers' time nothing was read but books of feigned chivalry, wherein a man by reading should be led to none other end, but only to manslaughter and bawdry.
