Novelists are always resisting autobiographical readings of their work, because they know how false those can be.
For a lot of kids, reading is not magical. It's really hard work.
When I am rehearsing for a play, I try to read nothing that might distract my concentration from the work in progress.
I'm famously secretive about my work. Nobody reads my books till they're finished.
Anyone who reads my work will see that there are often difficult relationships between fathers and sons.
There is nothing more distressing or tiresome than a writer standing in front of an audience and reading his work.
Sure, women sportswriters look when they're in the clubhouse. Read their stories. How else do you explain a capital letter in the middle of a word?
We have to get women's stories out there so a guy will read it, laugh, and think, 'I'm not laughing at a chick story but a story.'
Literary fiction is kept alive by women. Women read more fiction, period.
Have you got something against faith?” “Have you got something against reason?
That’s some heavy painkillers in your drug stash.” “Well I’m in pain, aren’t I?
Who will read these poems when the people are gone?
You are all made of real poop.
Reading is of course dry work, and further refreshment was called for and consumed.
Nothing is Impossible. The word "impossible" itself reads "I'm Possible"!
I can read. A little. I kind of protested it in School(TM). On the grounds that the silent 'E' is stupid.
My education was neglected, yet I was passionately fond of reading.
She had her addictions and one of them was reading.
The beach is not a place to work; to read, write or to think.
There's a book of poetry in the lines of my hands that no one wants to read
Read it wisely, Little One, for the power of ignorance is great.
