I can remember picking up weighty tomes on the history of science and the history of philosophy and reading those when I was small.
As soon as I walk down that sticky six-mile patterned carpet that welcomes you at Heathrow, I buy the Sunday papers and read the fashion supplements cover to cover. Even though hardly a single word in them seems directed at any male who ever lived, I find them compulsive reading.
For whatever reason, people, including very well-educated people or people otherwise interested in reading, do not read poetry.
I don't actually have a one wellspring of inspiration. Though I'm most often inspired while reading - both fiction and nonfiction.
Before you take your address, while you're still reading the putt, imagine the ball tracking on the line you've chosen and falling into the cup. If you don't believe you can make every putt, why bother trying?
I've been reading a lot of books on history, and watching a lot of educational TV. Wikipedia too, even though it is not reliable.
If you're reading IMDB, half of it's made up. You can't trust it or Wikipedia, which is just lies, lies!
If your work is done on the phone, then surely you can set up some kind of wireless system. If your work involves reading or writing reports, then this too could be done outside.
If I'm not moved from one spot to another, internally, while I'm witnessing it, reading it, consuming it, whatever, I don't know why we're being asked to the party.
I had a very mixed kind of childhood reading. I read the childhood classics like 'Robinson Crusoe,' 'Alice in Wonderland,' 'Chums Annual.' At the same time, I read an enormous number of American comics because Shanghai was an American zone of influence.
Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
The things worth writing about, and the things worth reading about, are the things that feel almost beyond description at the start and are, because of that, frightening.
Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others.
A lot of writers dwell on their relationships with their mothers, but only a few are worth reading.
I was always taught that book keeping was more relevant than book reading. The only thing worth reading was meant to be a balance sheet.
In my high-minded and naive way, I believed the only books worth reading were the classics.
I entered a poem in a poetry contest around 1987, and the poem won and I received $1,000 for it. That made me realize that maybe what I was writing was worth reading to people. After that, for some reason, I turned to novels and I've written mainly novels ever since.
Whether my columns are worth reading isn't for me to say.
The thing with newspapers is that they are a filter. We're relying on the editors of that paper to be a filter and to tell you that this is worth reading about, this is quality, and this is quite reliable.
People who grew up on my books are now able to get the point across to others that they're worth reading.