I suppose if I had to give a one-word answer to the question of why I read, that word would be pleasure. The kind of pleasure you can get from reading is like no other in the world.
I didn't really like reading much before I did 'The Golden Compass'. But then my teacher told me to read it. And I thought, 'Oh God, I'm going to have to read a whole book by myself!' It's not that I couldn't read, it's just that I didn't really like...
No one can teach writing, but classes may stimulate the urge to write. If you are born a writer, you will inevitably and helplessly write. A born writer has self-knowledge. Read, read, read. And if you are a fiction writer, don't confine yourself to ...
The imperative to take notes as one read moved the seventeenth century Jesuit scholar Jeremias Drexel to write that, 'reading is useless, vain and silly when no writing is involved, unless you are reading [devotionally] Thomas a Kempis or some such. ...
A man, to read, must read alone. He may make extracts, he may work at books in company; but to read, to absorb, he must be solitary.
The complexities of adult life get in the way of the truth.
We read to know we're not alone. We read because we are alone. We read and we are not alone. We are not alone.
I can barely read my hand written notes, typed.
I read a lot of literary theory when I was in graduate school, especially about novels, and the best book I ever read about endings was Peter Brooks' 'Reading for the Plot. '
There are only two ways, really, to become a writer. One is to write. The other is to read.
I have two pairs of reading glasses. One pair is for reading fiction, the other for non-fiction. I've read the Bible twice wearing each pair, and it's the same.
Read everything. Read fiction and non-fiction, read hot best sellers and the classics you never got around to in college.
When people are reading a book, it's a personal thing. They're reading it; it's in their own mind; it's in their own personal space when they're reading it.
The most bizarre thing I've ever read about myself is that I was dead. That was kind of weird to read that I'm dead - mostly because I was reading it.
Reading and writing are connected. I learned to read very early so I could read the comics, which I then started to draw.
I've read the whole 'Divergent' series, the 'Pretty' series. I just read it because I find this stuff interesting to read.
The cool thing about reading is that when you read a short story or you read something that takes your mind and expands where your thoughts can go, that's powerful.
If you re-read your work, you can find on re-reading a great deal of repetition can be avoided by re-reading and editing.
A conventional good read is usually a bad read, a relaxing bath in what we know already. A true good read is surely an act of innovative creation in which we, the readers, become conspirators.
I love comics. All I've been doing is reading every day, sitting in the house. Because I've not been feeling too good, so I've been reading and reading.
One can't write without having read - you have to read before beginning to write - and universities offer a very good opportunity to read.
