Reading Burden Quotes

It is one of the misfortunes in life that one must read thousands of books only to discover that one need not have read them.

I'm trying to read more dead people because I keep having to read stuff for juries and so forth.

The real reason Milton went blind was to avoid reading unsolicited manuscripts.

It's hopeless! Tomorrow there'll be even more books I should have read than there are today.

One good thing about leaving daily journalism was that I was no longer obliged to read all the book prize short lists.

What a glut of books! Who can read them?

I thought, well I can do that. I couldn't be bothered writing a book review, because I'd have to read the book, I haven't got time to read a whole book for a fifty dollar write-up.

I just have so many scripts to read!

It takes a very long time to read a script. I'll look at a script, but there are so many scripts. I remember once being at the dentist, and the guy was doing my teeth and telling me about the screenplay he'd written and he said, "Will you read it?" And I said "Oh...okay." And it turns out that it was about a dentist!

When you have a bunch of scripts that you have to read, the less you have, the better it is, because otherwise, everything is already planned and I think that's a terrible feeling.

I don't like to have to pan for gold when I read.

To write a novel may be pure pleasure. To live a novel presents certain difficulties. As for reading a novel, I do my best to get out of it.