Rashid Johnson Quotes

Really important books to me are the classics. I try very hard to read them well - you know, especially once I got serious about writing. So, reading Tolstoy several times - 'War and Peace,' 'The Kreutzer Sonata' - all those were really important to me.

A week or so ago I did a two hour book review in Baltimore Maryland.

I, personally, have found reading a continual support to writing.

I have read a number of books, starting with novels, that I particularly liked.

I believe that writing is derivative. I think good writing comes from good reading.

In Europe, I always have fun bike riding in Amsterdam.

I have read your book and much like it.

I don't know if I officially proofread my father's book, but I read it. I did get some conception of grammar in general from that.

Since I make my living as a literary journalist, not a book scout, I spend inordinate amounts of time either reading or writing.

It was in a grim room on Eddy Street that I finally opened 'A Moveable Feast.' I read it all overnight. I read it again the next day.

We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading. Knowing the contents of a few works of literature is a trivial achievement. Being inclined to go on reading is a great achievement.

I deeply respect literature and expect to gain insight from a book and to identify emotionally with its characters. I therefore avoid reading suspense novels or science fiction.

I read all the time, and I'm often struck by something I'm reading.

Shakespeare didn't work at all for me.

I've found that writers who don't read really can't write.

As a reader since very early, I have found myself drawn to rants.

I am trying to concentrate on books. You know, I love Dostoevsky; he's my favourite writer.

I used to just sit down and read the dictionary, and I read the Bible and Shakespeare from cover to cover.

I grew up on Jane Austen novels and was a massive literature fanatic when I was a kid - I read everything I could get my hands on.

I've visited Holland plenty of times and always liked staying in the Hilton in Amsterdam.

A Boosh fan bought me an original copy of 'The Jungle Book' - like, the first print from 1894 - so I've just started re-reading that and am really enjoying it. But the last book I read in its entirety was 'Willard and his Bowling Trophies,' by Richard Brautigan, which is amazing.

I sometimes think there is nothing really to be said about a novel but 'read the book.' I have a jaundiced view of literary critics.

No book, however good, can survive a hostile reading.

None of [the books are] worth reading. There are no fairy tales, no faerie tails, no sword-swinging princesses or lightning-throwing gods.

I was a literature major in college and that was my thing, books.