Read Quotes

Francis Ford Coppola did this early on. You tape a movie, like a radio show, and you have the narrator read all the stage directions.

I grew up in a very religious family. I could read the Qu’ran easily at the age of five.

The Mirror Empire is the most original fantasy I’ve read in a long time.

Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly — they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.

Written poetry is different. Best thing is to see it in performance first, then read it. Performance is more provocative.

These days, even out of office, I still read economic reports.

Bad news. Read the papers. There are people dropping dead when they’re 50, 40, 30 years old. Or quite possibly just after finishing their convocation.

Later alone it wore poems for clothes. Like a shirt I carried on my back the poetry I had read. So I lived for half a century until wordlessly we met. From my shirt on the back of the chair I learn tonight how many years of learning by heart I waited for you.

To be well informed, one must read quickly a great number of merely instructive books. To be cultivated, one must read slowly and with a lingering appreciation the comparatively few books that have been written by men who lived, thought, and felt with style.

I’ve done auditions where the casting director is taking the paper out of my hand in the middle of reading.