Pastoral Resources

Reading should be a repeat performance.

Sometimes poetry is inspired by the conversation entered into by reading other poems.

The reader's challenge is to replicate the experiment by reading the poem and to draw their own conclusions.

People really want to think that these things really happened. I don't know why that important, but I know that when I finish reading a novel or something, I want to know how much of that really happened to this author.

I was in the tennis bubble. I wasn't thinking about the big picture. I didn't notice what they said on television, I wasn't reading any papers. I had a coach and a manager, and they kept me in the bubble.

A few years after my first son was born, he wanted to know how we chose his name, so I began reading him the story of Noah's Ark.

There is a note in the front of the volume saying that no public reading may be given without first getting the author's permission. It ought to be made much more difficult to do than that.

Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable.

My mother was right: When you've got nothing left, all you can do is get into silk underwear and start reading Proust.

My reading is always about musical biographies. I have an innate interest and passion for that.

Once in a while you start having second thoughts, then you read a letter from someone that lifts your spirits so much - it really makes a huge difference. I love reading them.

Criticism starts - it has to start - with a real passion for reading. It can come in adolescence, even in your twenties, but you must fall in love with poems.

When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books You will be reading meanings.

We never stop reading, although every book comes to an end, just as we never stop living, although death is certain.

Reading is like the sex act - done privately, and often in bed.

Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

When you cease from labour, fill up your time in reading, meditation, and prayer: and while your hands are labouring, let your heart be employed, as much as possible, in divine thoughts.

By crying on my bed, drinking quite a lot and feeling tempted by drugs. Well, just not reading it to be perfectly honest with you. I know it's a bit of a copout.