I love to go home and do the chores and read.
In science, read, by preference, the newest works; in literature, the oldest. The classic literature is always modern.
When I read Toni Morrison and Sandra Cisneros as a freshman at Rutgers, it all clicked - that writing was all I wanted to do. It became my calling.
I learned to read very early so I could read the comics, which I then started to draw.
This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read.
It's very difficult to read a book on your computer.
Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider.
I've read hundreds of cookbooks. For my money, they are the bird.
I have to read once a day, or I become cranky.
I can't read novels while I'm writing a novel, because somebody's voice creeps in.
I not only read Raymond Chandler but read all the crime fiction classics. I was hooked.
In cyberspace, 95 per cent of what you read is hearsay.
In my stunted career as a scholar, I'd read promissory notes, papal bulls and guidelines for Inquisitorial interrogation. Dante, too. Boccaccio... But after 1400? Nihil.
I've read short stories that are as dense as a 19th century novel and novels that really are short stories filled with a lot of helium.
I read the entire 'Alias' series. I devoured them.
Be able to read blueprints, diagrams, floorplans, and other diagrams used in the construction process.
When I read Daniel Woodrell's novel 'Winter's Bone,' I was drawn to the characters, the setting, and the sound of the dialog.
I've read probably 25 or 30 books by Balzac, all of Tolstoy - the novels and letters - and all of Dickens. I learned my craft from these guys.
The scholars and poets of an earlier time can be read only with a dictionary to help.
The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.
