Many who resort to crime ultimately can't read or write.
The appeal of reading, she thought, lay in its indifference: there was something undeferring about literature. Books did not care who was reading them or whether one read them or not. All readers were equal, herself included. Literature, she thought, is a commonwealth; letters a republic.
I understood we used to be close. But they were like books i'd read two summer ago; I knew I'd liked them, but I couldn't tell you now what they'd been about.
I've only read fiction, so I don't know anything actual
It is well to read everything of something, and something of everything.
Anyone can repeat a technical explanation they read in a text-book or blog post.
When I began to read, I began to exist
The amount of work that TV writers and executives do is incredibly hard. I'm shocked that these people will hand in three outlines and two scripts, and everybody has to read them and give notes on all of them, even the writers.
I didn't read a serious book until I was 19.
When she wanted to escape her life, she read books
Manifesto. Read my Manifesto. I`ve written a Manifesto. It`s all in the Manifesto!
Look at me. My concerns-are they spiritual, do you think, or carnal? Come on. We've read our Shakespeare.
I don't read a lot of inspirational books for life. But for writing, I think the two best books are The War of Art and William Zinsser's On Writing Well. I read a lot of classics.
We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world and it's efficiency is only marred by the difficulty of finding twelve men every day who don't know anything and can't read-
I'd just turned 50, weighed 285, and my doctor had read me the riot act about my health.
In Genoa, the word, libertas can be read on the front of prisons and on the fetters of galley-slaves. The application of this motto is fine and just.
It's always better to have too much to read than not enough.
I don't read a great deal of fiction, to my shame, other than the classics.
I have managed not to finish certain books. With barely a twinge of conscience, I hurl down what bores me or doesn't give what I crave: ecstasy, transcendence, a thrill of mysterious connection. For, more than anything else, readers are thrill-seekers, though I don't read thrillers, not the kind sold under that label, anyway. They don't thrill; only language thrills.
A novel is too much of a commitment. I tend to peruse Twitter - I check to see if I had any mentions and read the latest messages.