I'm a technician. I don't go for the get-into-the-role stuff. I read the lines and play the scenes.
The trick is to get people to read anything, to engender the love of reading. Once you can read, you can teach yourself anything. Librarians are key, I think. They hold the power to empower.
A writer who wishes to be read by posterity must not be averse to putting hints which might give rise to whole books, or ideas for learned discussions, in some corner of a chapter so that one should think he can afford to throw them away by the thousand.
Those who do not read the news are uninformed. Those who do are misinformed.
If Americans are to read something that is difficult, they will only do so supposing they will be admired for having done it.
I wasn't a very discriminating reader. I read just about everything that came along.
For those who know how to read, I have painted my autobiography
I just thought you'd like to know I can read. You got anything needs readin' I can do it.
Look on this beautiful world, and read the truth in her fair page.
Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.
The perfect opening is the word imagine, because imagine allows you to communicate in the eyes and the vision of the listener rather than yours. And the best illustration of that is "1984. " Room 101 in "1984" - everyone's read it, and we all have our own imagination of what that looks like.
You should read Wodehouse when you're well and when you're poorly;when you're travelling, and when you're not;when you're feeling clever, and when you're feeling utterly dim. Wodehouse always lifts your spirits,no matter how high they happen to be already.
The very cheapness of literature is making even wise people forget that if a book is worth reading, it is worth buying. No book is worth anything which is not worth much; nor is it serviceable, until it has been read, and re-read, and loved, and loved again; and marked, so that you can refer to the passages you want in it.
Making eye contact during rough sex is roughly the equivalent of trying to read Dostoyevsky on a rollercoaster.
I get hundreds of emails daily and a lot of feedback from people that are reading or have read my books. When I'm writing, or in my daily life, I just think of the work. I love to tell a story, but I might work with a story to make it the best I can without thinking of how many people will read it or if it will influence anybody.
It would seem that not only is religion lacking in the schools - so is common sense. I wonder what a teacher is supposed to say if a kid asks about those four words on a dime - 'In God We Trust. ' Or maybe that's why they aren't being taught how to read these days.
. . . the state of rapture I experience when I read a wonderful book is one of the main reasons I read; but it doesn't happen every time or even every other time, and when it does happen, I am truly beside myself.
My grandfather was a most gifted person, and amongst his many qualities, one of them had always particularly impressed me. While the past was a book he had read and re-read may times, the future was just one more literary work of art into which he used to pour himself with deep thought and concentration. Innumerable people since his death have told me how he used to read in the future, and this certainly was one of his very great strengths.
A socialist is someone who has read Lenin and Marx. An anti-socialist is someone who understands Lenin and Marx.
Every man is a volume if you know how to read him.