Well, I can't describe her exactly-except to say that she was beautiful. She was-tremendously alive.
It is the first experience you ever had of reading a decent poem: 'Oh, somebody else is lonely, too!
The current tax code is harder to understand than Bob Dylan reading Finnegans Wake in a wind tunnel.
Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.
I wish I was making shoes instead of reading or watching movies, which is what I do in my free time.
So much of reading and writing to me is about being elsewhere, no matter how much I love where I am.
Read (this book), smile, enjoy, and if you happen to learn something along the way, don't get upset.
Art inspires me. Looking at art in a museum, listening to music, reading the works of other writers.
Smell is a very animal thing, almost reptilian, where the more cerebral things like reading less so.
My history writing was based on what I saw in strange, exotic places rather than just reading books.
Nothing is as dangerous for the state as those who would govern kingdoms with maxims found in books.
While writing a novel I almost completely stop reading books in the same sub-genre for the duration.
I would never read a book if it were possible for me to talk half an hour with the man who wrote it.
I've just been reading about cycling. Yeah, I'm not that great at it but I like the challenge of it.
Cheryl Cole, if you're reading this, I may not be as prety as you but at least I write my own songs.
I've been reading a book lately. That book is Thom Yorke, and the conclusion is that he's brilliant.
I have rock climbed but not in awhile. Love all sports, reading, cooking, some carpentry, gardening.
It usually helps me write by reading - somehow the reading gear in your head turns the writing gear.
Some women have a weakness for shoes... I can go barefoot if necessary. I have a weakness for books.
There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.
I find reading screenplays difficult, as they're only a roadmap for what a movie might end up being.
It's very different when you're reading a script to when you're watching a movie for the first time.
So I'm reading a book on my new iPad, but can't the iPad read it for me? Do I have to do everything?
A man of letters, merely by reading a phrase, can estimate exactly the literary merit of its author.
I reckon if I can't spend the day sleeping, the next best thing is to spend it reading and drinking.
Whenever you see someone react to something they're reading on their phone, that's life being lived.
A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.