Thank you for sending me a copy of your book - I'll waste no time reading it.
I don't normally have time to read, so when I go away I like to take a few books.
A man who wants time to read and write must let the grass grow long.
Be sure to read a recipe all the way through before you cook. The time it saves you in the long run is invaluable.
For the last year I've been at Stanford University as a student and I've had time to read the newspaper.
I'm an active author: I travel to give readings and talks, although I know it's risky.
My writing is a combination of three elements. The first is travel: not travel like a tourist, but travel as exploration. The second is reading literature on the subject. The third is reflection.
Will: I read your book last night. Sean: So you're the one.
Lesra: [to Rubin] Dear Mr. Carter, I read your book.
The Grandson: They're kissing again. Do we have to read the kissing parts?
I was a very difficult child, and the time I spent reading was about the only peace I gave my mother.
Each word bears its weight, so you have to read my poems quite slowly.
I have piles of poetry books in the bathroom, on the stairs, everywhere. The only way to write poetry is to read it.
We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.
My father read poetry to me, encouraged me to memorize poems. But the writing of it was quite a different thing.
To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry.
Dismissals of poetry are nothing new. It's easy to dismiss poetry if one has not read much of it.
Anticipating that most poetry will be worse than carrying heavy luggage through O'Hare Airport, the public, to its loss, reads very little of it.
The poetry of Walt Whitman. I can return again and again to these magnificent poems and still get pleasure from reading them.
Pound's translation of Chinese poetry was maybe the most important thing I read. Eliot a little bit later.
Poetry says the things that I can't say. I read a lot, but I never write it.
