To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Don Quixote's 'Delusions' is an excellent read - far better than my own forthcoming travel book, 'Walking Backwards Across Tuscany.'
If you're reading IMDB, half of it's made up. You can't trust it or Wikipedia, which is just lies, lies!
Humbert Humbert: [to Charlotte Haze] We don't read other people's diaries now, do we?
Max Bialystock: [reading post-show telegrams] "Congratulations! Hitler will run forever."
Owen: It's called delegation, baby. I read about it in a book about it.
Agents will read unpublished work because they might make money, and that's their job. It isn't mine.
I want to be an advocate for the people who don't have time to read the newspaper... or the money to make a political contribution.
Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them.
I think book clubs should read more contemporary poetry.
If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.
I think what will happen is that fiction will become more like poetry. As in, the only people who read it will write it.
I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of our intellectuals can't read any poetry.
I'm no romantic, surfing, California boy. I like reading, writing, philosophizing. Scheming. I've been doing some exploration of the inner space.
Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.
In science, read, by preference, the newest works; in literature, the oldest. The classic literature is always modern.
A lot of what the 'Culture' is about is a reaction to all the science fiction I was reading in my very early teens.
The Athanasian Creed is to me light and intelligible reading in comparison with much that now passes for science.
As society diversifies, the number of people who read literature is decreasing. It will be difficult for readers to digest my ideas through literature.
The teacher is commodified, the school is a shop, the subjects are consumer goods. To read, to think, to reflect, isn't a question of want, it's a question of need.
I do readings at the public library. I just did a benefit scene night for my old acting teacher.
